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About 1400 species of insects are eaten in almost 90 African, Latin American and Asian countries. Here are several examples:

- Thai people eat more than 150 insects, including crickets, silkworms and dung bugs. The preserved crickets are sold in the supermarkets and the street sales of various insects is a popular thing in Bangkok.

- There are more than 250 eatable insects in Africa. People eat everything - starting from termites and finishing with the grasshoppers, trying to combat the extreme nutritional situation. In the southern part of the Africa the mupan worms have become a real business that brings multimillion incomes, they are also exported to the immigrant communes to Europe.

- In the rural districts of South America the various species of ants are a real delicatessen. For example, the Pemon Indians, that live in Venezuela, appreciate the fire ants during the rain season. And the giant Colombian ants are appreciated as an aphrodisiac.

- The Papua of Indonesia eat 50 various types of insects, including bees, grasshoppers and wasps. The Australian aborigines eat wood bugs, flies and moths - all this is a part of the bush inhabitants' diet.
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