Insects can also be human food. Many people in this world eat insects, of course, after being processed and cooked properly. for those who have eaten insect menus like grasshoppers, it is delicious, delicious, and rich in vitamins. Reportedly in French restaurants available snail menu, of course, with a cooler name. After all, the food was liked by many people. the artists are no exception. it's just a snail, in addition to other extreme foods such as insects in general, and especially grasshoppers.

In Gunungkidul Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, the natural conditions may be said to be barren and barren. Most of the area in southeastern Yogyakarta consists of limestone hills. Along the road, there were many people catching grasshoppers. The most common are wood grasshoppers. This grasshopper population doesn't know the season, so all the time there are always grasshoppers. If grasshoppers, usually found during the rainy season. But given this uncertain season, rice grasshoppers can also be obtained. Gunungkidul residents can still eat both insects at once, wood grasshopper and rice grasshopper. 

Insect Nutrition

Mexican film player, Salma Hayek, claimed to be very happy and very fond of eating insects. In Mexico, insects such as ants, worms and grasshoppers are the typical food of the Latin American country. "Many recipes are good food made from worm ingredients," Salma said while holding back saliva. He also likes small grasshoppers. "Grasshopper has a taste that is second to none," he said. 

A few months ago, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) found a new species in Kalimantan. it turns out that this species includes insects or grasshoppers sticks (Phobaeticus chani) 56.7 cm long, precisely in the tropical rainforest border between Malaysia-Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia. Kalimantan residents used to call this insect the Grasshopper Grasshopper. Usually insects measuring 7 to 10 cm.

In addition to the findings of this insect, there are still 123 new species found in the region. Another species is the finding of a 7 cm flat-headed frog (Barbourula Kalimantanensis) which fully breathes through the skin, not through the lungs. It seems that the tropical environment is very supportive for the growth of thousands of species of insects. In Costa Rica, for example, many tropical forests and have a variety of insects, including some species that are still foreign. No wonder we can also taste insects such as leaf cutter ants, butterflies and beetles. Santo Domingo de Heredia is a small town near the mother city of San Jose, making efforts to diversify food from insect species. Investigations and examinations were also carried out on mushrooms, after being inspired by the role of mushrooms in the daily diet of the forest kingdoms in the Himalayas. Grasshopper, Ladybug larvae, termites and crickets and butterflies, become the daily food of the local population. 

"Large grasshoppers with long (mustache) antennas, very much in the forests and rural areas of Costa Rica, Central America. People say, eating grasshoppers there is better than eating shrimp. Of course it's very good if grasshoppers and shrimp are chopped with garlic seasoning ..., "said Elizabeth Zannou (insect expert).

"Soon a special menu will be provided at a large restaurant in the city of Costa Rica, Central America. Who knows you want to order dinner with a menu of green grasshopper cah garlic or spicy ladybug larvae satay spicy, "he said. "Indeed, the insects seem appetizing and suitable for tasting, when subsequently eaten with onions."

Zannou suggested that people who are not willing to food insects and disgust, try the tasting menu insects that starts added to the menus; likes at famous restaurants. In a boutique hotel in Guanacaste, which is a foreign tourist destination, now began to be presented to guests in the form of an insect food menu as appetizers while drinking wine. This menu is presented in such a way and is expensive for each portion, so that guests can change their perceptions about insects, from what had been disgusted to be very valuable and delicious.