"Bug Jerky. You hate it. I hate it". Thus starts a friends first novel about a dystopian future where, because of climate change, insect swarms keep humans from going outside, surviving a future of a world stripped by bugs.
Periodically, something happens that is so f###ed up that you just have to share it. A few days ago, I opened the door to let the dogs out for their nightly piss. In flew a half dozen huge meaty beetles before I could slam shut the door. June Bugs. They had swarmed on the screen, attracted by the light. In fact, they were beating on the open window. I didn't understand why the dogs weren't coming in. Turns out, they were hanging by the windows...to crunch on tasty snacks.
Another night, another drumming on the windows. I opened the windows so the bugs would gravitate to the screens...then went outside with a yogurt container and lid. I grabbed the bugs off the screen and scraped them into the container, lid half bent back, so they couldn't escape. Both the dogs...and the cat, were out there crunching away. I walked back and forth between 4 windows...and filled the container. It got a little, horror movie, creepy near the end, as my hand got into the bugs...crawling up my hand to try and escape....but I filled the container. Wa Ha Ha.
Not that I am above eating bugs...I was told by an Ex GF, "Cern, Stop eating Nature" ...said in a cutesy, fake schoolgirl voice (I have a tendency to snack on things I have to push out of the way. I never seem to have snacks when I need them) but I would save bugs for an emergency. These were for the chickens breakfast. I first checked online to make sure they were edible...and they were prepper food. I decided to stick them in the fridge....to slow them down so they don't fly away wile the chickens chow down. Shure....its just one days feed...but life is like that as you figure out where realfood comes from.
As I plucked these juicy morsels from the screen, I kept hearing the Dukes Of Hazard theme song going in my head..." Just a Good'Ol Bug.....Never doing No Harm..."
I hope that you are " Both Educated...and Horrified" LOL
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I read that the Indians ate June bugs roasted like popcorn. Please try & report back to us toot sweet!
And just what is wrong with eating bugs?
I think it's much better then sea horse on a stick
I agree, deep fry a few an report back 🙂 Great way to feed the chickens for the day!
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Appropriately horrified 🙂 Our cats like them too and I'm all for feeding them to the chickens...I'll let you chew on that portion of nature! ha ha!
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Bugs with shells need to have different preparation than soft skinned bugs. Some of the bugs with shells have parasites or diseases, so boiling them is a necessity before consumption. Last year I posted eat bugs not cats, there are a few links to some very learned people there on the preparation and issues with any bugs you wish to consume.
On one of the sites, there was also a handy dandy chart, quick reference chart on how to eat them, say raw or boil or bake etc.
good luck, teaching my pup to Crunch bugs right now, especially Mosquitoes !
Not surprisingly, this topic has made me think about June Bugs.
When we moved to the farm 14 years ago, June Bug "time" was more of an aerial attack. For the first few years, when the fourth week in May came, the wife would hide in the house after dark. She HATES June Bugs and they would be POUNDING into the windows. In the morning the bugs would be stuck to the screens and piled up under the windows.
The last two years I noticed that we had almost zero June Bugs. I am thinking that this is just another benefit of free range chickens. Three years ago we had 88 of the little bug eaters running around. We have cut way back on chickens now (15), but I am thinking that they are eating bug larvae and this is keeping the adult population to a minimum. So far this year I have only seen one June Bug. We also have very few mosquitos.
"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences." - Proverbs 22:3
"The man who has a garden and a library has everything." - Cicero
Agree, between the ducks, geese, chickens and guinea fowl, we see a huge difference at our farm compared to those around us in terms of less bugs, slugs and so on..
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Having just returned from mexico, I was watching the beach from our room and the staff at the resort were collecting something from the beach. I assumed it was seafood. after a rain in oxaca, mexico which is long awaited by the the people and plants, the crabs are running everywhere. It's easy to catch crabs in mexico ha ha. with tongs or a oven mitt. but what they were collecting from the beach was crickets which are barbequed and are apparently delightful. beside if you've ever had a salt rimmed drink in mexico. They are crushed up into the salt for flavor. so alot of people have tried them and didn't know it. Margarita 400 pesos - Montazuma revenge, catching crabs and eat bugs - priceless. If a roasted june bug would add flavor to a margarita count me in.
“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.” -- Henry Ford
Just last week I was driving just after dark and thought it had begun to rain with all the tick tick tick on the windshield until another car was coming towards me. It illuminated a mayfly hatch so thick it looked like a snowstorm.