--- title: Insects as food in other countries — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Insects as food in other countries», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: At a night market in Thailand a child your age buys a paper cone of fried crickets the way you might buy chips. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Insects as food in other countries # Insects as food in other countries Lesson 290 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/0/) — At a night market in Thailand a child your age buys a paper cone of fried crickets the way you might buy chips. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/1/) — They taste nutty and crunchy, and for her they are just a normal snack. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/2/) — About two billion people around the world eat insects, and more than 1,900 kinds are eaten: grasshoppers in Mexico, big caterpillars in southern Africa, queen ants in Colombia, locusts in parts of the Middle East and Africa. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/3/) — Insects are packed with protein and need far less land, water and food than cows, so some scientists think they could help feed the world. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/5/) — But wild bugs from the garden are never a snack, because they can carry germs and poisons. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/6/) — About 2 billion people eat insects, and more than 1,900 kinds of insect are eaten around the world. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/8/) — Farming insects needs much less land, water and food than farming cows, and makes far less greenhouse gas, the kind of gas that warms the planet. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/9/) — Chapulines are toasted grasshoppers with lime and chilli, eaten in Oaxaca in Mexico for thousands of years and sold at markets and football games. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/10/) — Mopane worms are big caterpillars eaten in southern Africa; they are dried, stored for months and are an important food and income for families. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/11/) — In Colombia big-bottomed queen ants are toasted and eaten like peanuts, and in Australia Aboriginal people eat honeypot ants, which store sweet liquid in their bodies. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/12/) — The red food colour carmine is made from crushed cochineal bugs that live on cactus, and it is used in sweets, yoghurt and lipstick; the Aztecs used it to dye cloth. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/13/) — Flour and fruit can contain tiny insect parts, food rules allow a small harmless amount, and it is impossible to grow food with no insects at all. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/14/) — Wild insects can carry germs, poisons or garden sprays, and some are toxic, so insects for food are farmed and cooked safely, and people allergic to shellfish may react to insects. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/15/) — Black soldier fly larvae eat food waste and are turned into food for chickens and farmed fish, which saves wild fish from being caught as feed. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/16/) — In the Bible John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey, and locusts are still eaten in parts of the Middle East and Africa. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/17/) — A big locust swarm can eat as much food in a day as millions of people. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/18/) — Disgust at food is learned from family and culture, and tastes change over time: lobster was once food for the poor and prisoners in America. - ← previous: [Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/) - next →: [Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)