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  • Surveying the outback, Bessie Liddle, an Aboriginal grandmother, searches through the desert for witchetty trees, a type of acacia whose roots may harbor witchetty grubs, the edible larvae of cossid moths; a termite mound in the foreground, outside Alice Springs, Central Australia. (Man Eating Bugs page 17)
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  • Kitty Miller, an aboriginal grandmother from the Australian town of Alice Springs, holds witchetty grubs (Witchetty grubs are the larvae of cossid moths) freshly dug from the roots of the witchetty bush in  Australia's outback. To make this photograph Peter Menzel camped for several days with Kitty and a group of women who went in search of witchetty grubs and honey ants. (page 19)
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  • Pauline Woods cooks witchetty grubs in the ashes of a campfire as her daughter watches, outside Alice Springs, Australia. Witchetty grubs are the larvae of cossid moths. The large white worms live in tunnels in the ground where they feed on sap from the roots of a species of Acacia, commonly known as Wichetty Bush. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Witchetty grub dip, and sautéed grubs; a live grub crawls through the foreground. Witchetty grubs are the larvae of cossid moths. Sydney, Australia. (Man Eating Bugs page 16)
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  • Vic Cherikoff's "Honey Ant Dreaming" made from frozen replete honey ants (Melophorus bagoti), placed on cream filled chocolate cups, Sydney, Australia. (Man Eating Bugs page 11. See Man Eating Bugs page 28).
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  • Replete honeypot ants hang immobile from the roof of their underground chamber, with loads of nectar stored in their swollen abdominal pouches. North of Alice Springs, Central Australia. (Man Eating Bugs page 28. See also Man Eating Bugs page 11).
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  • Mamebogo Marumo sits under the partial shade of a mopane tree as she squeezes the insides out of mopane worms, keeping the carcasses to be salted, cooked, and dried to be eaten. The mopane worm is actually the caterpillar of the anomalous emperor moth (Imbrasia belina), one of the larger moths in the world. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Botswana. (Man Eating Bugs page 131 Bottom)
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  • A bird's-eye view of Phnom Penh's Wholesale Market showing how busy traffic moving through the streets can scarcely be differentiated from the buyers and sellers. Vats of deep-frying crickets as well as small frogs and whole small birds are found in this early morning market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Man Eating Bugs page s 44,45)
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  • Tarantula seller Sok Khun takes a dainty bite of one of the deep-fried tarantulas that she sells at a roadside market, Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia.(Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects page 48. See also cover of book) .
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  • Ant wine, pictured on the famed Great Wall of China, among a kilo of black ants, is actually ant-steeped rice brandy, and is lauded by Chinese traditional medicine doctors for its medicinal treatment of hepatitis-B and rheumatism.(Man Eating Bugs page 104 Bottom)
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  • You Zhiming, a young scorpion salesman, allows a scorpion to climb up his arm as a woman and her son choose scorpions for dinner in Guangzhou, China's Qing Ping Market. Scorpions in China are used as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. They taste a bit like sautéed twigs. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects page 93)
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  • Water beetles marinated in ginger and soy sauce with a carrot garnish against a background of swimming water beetles, Guangzhou Province, China. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects page 85 Inset.  See also page 6)
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  • Rufina Dochan and Udelia Toronam prepare a dish which Rufina claims has no name, but is made of sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), and sago flour wrapped in sago palm leaves. The packets are then roasted in the fire to prepare for eating, Sawa Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The resulting dish is like a cooked pastry, with a chewy, slightly sweet crust and the grubs taste like fishy bacon. (Page 70,71)
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  • Dani children show their "bug packages", a collection of twenty or so stink bugs wrapped in leaves to be roasted over a fire and eaten as a tasty protein snack, Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.   (pages 80, 81) .
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  • Martinus Himan, a Dani child with a mouthful of roasted stink bugs, Soroba Village, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (page 7 Bottom Right. See also page 79)
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  • Two men carry a pig to market in Jiwika, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. One man is wearing a traditional penis gourd and his friend is dressed in Western sports attire. Jiwika is in the Central Highlands of Irian Jaya. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • In a basement sushi bar in Tokyo, Japan, Mariko Urabe prepares to eat an inago, a grasshopper. She had never eaten one before this photograph and wasn't particularly interested in eating this one. The second small bowl of appetizers contains silkworm pupae. As is true in many countries, food preferences are culturally based and don't necessarily extend to the entire country. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A delectable grasshopper (inago, from the Japanese Alps) marinated in a soy-sugar sauce. Mariko Urabe is eating this appetizer in a small basement restaurant in Tokyo that specializes in cuisine from Nagano prefecture (grasshoppers, silk worm pupae, zaza-mushi). (Man Eating Bugs pages 2,3)
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  • Rosa Matíaz sells roasted and salted chapulines (grasshoppers) and live maguey worms in Oaxaca's Central Market, Oaxaca, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs page 112-113)
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  • Mealworm spaghetti ("Spaghetti a la Melanesia") prepared by Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, an entomologist in her Mexico City kitchen. She created a cookbook of recipes using insects. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • PER.meb.18.xxs.Fredi Molo Cruz toys with waykjuiro worms. Ocra Katunki, Peru. (pages 154,155)
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  • PER.meb.55.cxxs.Live chiro worms (the larvae of longhorn beetles from the family Cerambycidae), in a frying pan with vegetable oil, comprise the lunch prepared by Marleni Real, 16, for her father and brother, Koribeni, Peru.(Man Eating Bugs page 160 Bottom)
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  • The Northern Province of South Africa, formerly the Northern Transvaal and now called the Mpumalanga, is home to the Vendan people. Here, Muditami Munzhedzi, in traditional Venda clothing, prepares the Vendan's daily staple of cornmeal porridge as well as mopane worms. Tshamulavhu, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 134)
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  • Vendan women with their termite collecting equipment; sticks to penetrate into the termite mounds in order to retrieve the insects and bowls to collect them, Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Fried termites are nutty and crunchy. (page 138,139)
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  • Fried bamboo larva on a banana leaf with tomato roses, scalloped cucumbers and spring onions. In Thai the larvae are called rot duan, "express train," because they resemble tiny trains. They taste "like salty crispy shrimp puffs" says Peter Menzel. In the Kan Ron Ban Suan Restaurant, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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