After the UN urged us to eat more insects to help solve world hunger, we put together this infographic looking at some of the insects people already eat. Did you know there are an estimated 4 to 6 million different species of insect, and humans eat only a few thousand of them?
Insects outnumber us by a staggering 1.4 billion to one, so perhaps it is time we took entomophagy more seriously. As it happens, cochineal beetles and lac bugs probably already feature in your diet.
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