20 min

108: Butterball Beetles & Bugs on Your Plate Bugs Blood and Bones

    • Natural Sciences

If you were to conduct a random sampling of entomologists, you would find that there are a number of issues in which we firmly divide ourselves when it comes to important, life decisions. 
What are the best IPM methods?
Who is better: The Beatles or The Scorpions?
Would you be willing to host a bot fly in your body?  You know, for science.
And would you eat a bug?  And it's here that we land today.  So let's dig in, and get a taste of the history of insect eating.  Some pros, cons. and downright weird. 
 
Further Reading:
A Brief History of Entomophagy
The Natural History of Cheese Mites
7 Upscale Insect Dishes From Around the World
The 1903 Cheese Mites Film History
Cheese Mites Film
Nutritional Value of Insects from Around the World
 

If you were to conduct a random sampling of entomologists, you would find that there are a number of issues in which we firmly divide ourselves when it comes to important, life decisions. 
What are the best IPM methods?
Who is better: The Beatles or The Scorpions?
Would you be willing to host a bot fly in your body?  You know, for science.
And would you eat a bug?  And it's here that we land today.  So let's dig in, and get a taste of the history of insect eating.  Some pros, cons. and downright weird. 
 
Further Reading:
A Brief History of Entomophagy
The Natural History of Cheese Mites
7 Upscale Insect Dishes From Around the World
The 1903 Cheese Mites Film History
Cheese Mites Film
Nutritional Value of Insects from Around the World
 

20 min