Hate is a strong word that I don't often advocate. But there's only two things upon the face of God's-green-Earth that I wholesomely detest. One is taxes, the other bugs. Bugs are everywhere. Currently, they outnumber us. Always have, always will. We can never get rid of bugs, not really. Sure we spray our toxic chemicals around our domiciles, but that only deters the little critters. By-the-by, did you know it is a federal offense (but not enforced), to use pesticides in a manner otherwise than directed? It says so on the label. Most people don't know that because they don't read the directions. Then they wonder why their bugs aren't going away. Sure, there are all-natural home-remedies. Most hokum. Others disputable. But some do work. For a time. The thing that people forget is that insects have shorter life-spans and faster reproductive-cycles than damn near everything else on the planet other than unicellular organisms. Which means they evolve immunities and natural aversions to certain substances.
In 2005, a group of scientists and entomologists conducted a study. They wanted to know why German cockroaches (Blatella Germanica), were no longer being duped into scuttling into those fancy glucose lined Roach-motels. In 2010 they deduced that German roaches had lost their sweet-tooth. No longer were those six-legged-disease-spreading-vermin attracted to the gossamer glow of sweet saccharin. That was a closed experiment. This is three years later, in the real world, a much larger laboratory.
Bugs don't think. Not really. All they know is instinct and the one questioning doubt that befalls all beasts of such nature when encountering a foreign object: Can I eat it? Or will it eat me?
Face it, we eat bugs. In some cultures its considered a rare delicacy. Living from place-to-place, and having access to PX's (pretty much a mini-mall upon a military base), virtually anything was accessible. Except precious, precious plutonium. Just kidding:) I've had chocolate-covered-crickets, and caramel-coated-caterpillars. They're not bad. Slightly crunchy with a bitter-sweet-earthen-after-taste.
Statistics report the average human consumes (in their sleep) five spiders a year. Yup, you're snoring away, mouth open, and a curious arachnid skitters down your esophagus. Ever wonder why you wake up and your throat feels itchy, but you're not sick?
Let's say, you buy some fruit. You throw the peels away. A day or two later, you have fruit flies. Why? You didn't have fruit flies before. It's because the eggs are already inside the skins. If you purchase your food from a corporate chain, and had a fresh orange or grape-fruit for breakfast, guess what? You also ate Diptera Tephritidae larva.
Don't worry, it's all protein and no fat.
Yes, insects outnumber us at a staggering rate.
I eat bugs. And I'm proud of it.
What are you doing?
