“…and the People Obsessed with Them.”
Title of a book. Here’s part of the review:
“For every one of us (humans), there are roughly 1.4 billion insects.” According to MacNeal, that’s 10 quintillion bugs. In other words, it’s a bug’s world, and we’re all just living in it. It makes sense, then, that we learn about the who, what, when, where and why of bugs and the considerable influence they have.
Not to mention the increasingly apparent health benefits of eating bugs. Seriously! “Microlivestock,” as those within the field call them, contain significantly more calcium and iron than meats commonly consumed in the Western world. Other bug benefits include “first responders” that gnaw through decay, pest-controlling insects that save billions of dollars per year in the U.S. alone, and the positive impact bugs have had on 21st century medicine. What I took away from this book is for every bad bug, there is a good bug.
Hat tip: Taste of Bugs.
