It’s cold now, the insects are gone. I can only anticipate more hunts next year and recall this setting of past strivings; the epic struggles between a determined human hunter and a host of highly-evolved flying insects.
Man Eating Bugs, the impressive ‘picture-book’ by Menzel and D’Alusio that illustrates worldwide entomophagy, includes dragonfly hunting on the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'gathering methods'
Summer’s Hunt
December 6th, 2007 · No Comments · dragonfly, gathering methods
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A Colony Attacked
July 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · ants, dragonfly, gathering methods
This might not seem a dramatic image. It was the site of a great catastrophe, at least from the perspective of the carpenter ant colony that lived there. I am what befell that colony.
I’d first turned over the log on impulse, and replaced it carefully when I found a seething mass of large, winged black [...]
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ANOTHER new edible insect in the mail! The Big Ants
July 8th, 2007 · 3 Comments · ants, exotics, gathering methods
I’ve been sitting on this pretty amazing news for a little while now, getting ready to blog it, as the kids say. First I’d gotten the chapulines (picked up another 4.5 pounds from the Mexican market just today), then the cicadas, and then these big ants. By the Fall I hope to receive two or [...]
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