Bug appetit! (Nutrition news).Before you bug out, hear this: Nearly 80 percent of the world's population relies on bugs for food. In Cambodia, for example, fried tarantula tarantula (tərăn`chələ), name applied chiefly to several species of the large, hairy spiders of the families Theraphosidae and Dipluridae of North and South America. The body of a tarantula may be as much as 3 in. (7. is considered a delicacy (poison-filled fangs are removed before cooking). Scorpions, crickets, and termites are also popular bug treats. In fact, of the 1 million known arthropod arthropod Any member of the largest phylum, Arthropoda, in the animal kingdom. Arthropoda consists of more than one million known invertebrate species in four subphyla: Uniramia (five classes, including insects), Chelicerata (three classes, including arachnids and horseshoe species (spineless animals with jointed bodies), 1,462 are considered edible. What's so healthy about bugs? Most are low-fat and loaded with protein (a nutrient essential for healthy body growth). A plate of crunchy crunchy - floppy disk grasshoppers Grasshoppers may refer to one of the following:
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