According to literature records, many countries or regions in the world also have the custom of eating insects. Baden Mahal recorded in the book "Animal History" that people in the Middle East had records of eating desert locusts around the 8th century BC. Plina mentioned in his book "Natural History" that people in ancient Rome liked to eat wood moth larvae. Countries such as Libya and Japan regard locusts as delicacies. People in Sulawesi, Indonesia, like to catch a kind of large tree ants for sale, or make ant powder for sale as seasoning. In some countries, insects are used to make various foods or cans, which are sold in food stores or restaurants.
There are stores specializing in locusts in Tokyo, Japan; insect refreshments in Mexico are a best-selling food; Magathymidae larvae are canned and exported in Mexico as snacks.
Green-winged butterfly (Rhopalocampta libeon) larvae are collected in large quantities for food in the Congo.
Some cafes in Paris, France, use a kind of larvae called Little Golden Armor as fillings to make pastries; Paris, France has opened an "Insect Restaurant" with more than 100 kinds of delicious insect dishes, mainly fried flies. , ant lion head, stewed cricket soup, roasted cockroach, steamed maggot, beetle pie and so on.
The Carlton Museum of Natural History in the United States once held a unique "Feast of 100 Insects", which included fried bedbugs, crickets mixed with peanuts, beetle salad, dragonfly soup, aphid caviar, and mantis sandwiches. The United States makes canned insects, and also uses beetles, butterfly larvae, and bee pupae as fillings to make chocolate-filled candies. At the same time, ants, silkworm pupae, bees, etc. are also used to make candied foods or fried foods, which are very popular.
People in India, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar and Indonesia have the custom of eating ants. Mexico associates eating insects with many religious activities and festivals. For example, eating ant eggs, larvae, and pupae was not only a delicacy in the ancient Astec palace, but also the first choice to pay tribute to God at religious celebrations.
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