Subject: Re: grasshoppers as food (was News Release)
Date: May 25 22:09:56 1997
From: Herb Curl - Herb_Curl at hazmat.noaa.gov


Jack Bowling writes:
>
>Many birds eat grasshoppers if they can find them. Among the families I have
>seen eating them: falconids, shorebirds, larids, flycatchers, corvids,
>turdids, etc., etc. The fact that they are high in protein also means they
>are a good form of sustenance. Bonus.

Humans also consume grasshoppers, usually not chocolate coated, for the same
reason.
-----Herb Curl
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