Edible bugs,
delicious lifesavers!

Edible bugs are an excellent nutritional food supply in any wilderness survival situation. Insects occur almost everywhere and are often easy to catch. Look for them in rotten logs, under the bark of dead trees,...in any moist shady spots.

Most insects are edible raw. But boiling or roasting is safest. Example of useful insects are termites, grasshopers, locusts, crickets. Remove the wings before eating. Avoid fuzzy insects, as some are poisonous.

You don't feel comfortable eating bugs?..some people consider them a delicacy.


Man Eating Bugs

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Man Eating Bugs it's not a "how-to manual" but a first-class book documenting the contemporary traditions of eating insects all around the world and an excellent tool to increase your knowledge about edible bugs.

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