How many ways do bugs eat in Mexico?

According to incomplete statistics, there are 95 ways to eat bugs in Mexico. The most common ones are the following:

1. Take out the eggs and dry them, put them on the fire and eat them.

2. Follow the butter and egg yolks.

Mix together and eat.

3. Put it in a frying pan and stir-fry or put it in an oil pan and fry.

There are more than 450 ways to eat bugs in Mexico.

The history of Mexicans' love of insects can be traced back thousands of years, many large animals that are easy to catch are gradually becoming extinct, and the Indian inhabitants living on the American continent have become more and more difficult to hunt, they have found insects and eggs to be the most readily available delicacy, so insects have gradually become the main food of various Indian tribes, including the Aztecs, and they have gradually established insect diets.

There are more than 450 species of insects eaten by Mexicans, according to analyst Ramos, an expert on edible insects. Edible insects mainly include "Chaplin" locusts, dragonflies, butterflies, caterpillars, mosquitoes, flies, ants, bees, etc. It is worth mentioning that, depending on the species, some insects can eat their eggs, larvae and adults, that is, they can be eaten throughout their development.

Two of Mexico's most famous bugs:

"Lake Mill" mosquitoes

The "Humir" mosquito is an insect of the order Hemiptera, and there are more than 10 species of mosquitoes that can be eaten in some regions of Mexico, but in terms of taste and nutritional value, the best is the "Humir" mosquito, which lives in the mountains around the city of Taxco. This mosquito is centimeters long, eats the sap of leaves, and hides under trunks, plants, and roots of trees or dry leaves on the ground.

The "Lake Mill" mosquito is highly regarded locally, especially in Lake Mill Hills, on the outskirts of Taxco. There every year on the first Monday of November is the festival of "Lake Mir", and after a mass is held in a church in the mountains, the catch begins.

"Escamor".

Escamor is the egg of a variety of ants, especially those found in arid lands. April is the best time for locals to dig up their eggs from underground anthills. The people who collect the eggs of this kind of eggs, which are similar in size to rice grains, are very skillful, they follow the ants who go out to find food, and when they find the location of the nest, they dig until they find the burrow that the ants weave out of branches, mud and leaves for laying eggs.

Sometimes 1 kilogram of eggs can be dug up from an anthill.

According to incomplete statistics, there are 95 ways to eat bugs in Mexico. The most common ones are the following:

1. Take out the eggs and dry them, put them on the fire and eat them.

2. Mix with butter and egg yolk.

3. Put it in a frying pan and stir-fry or put it in an oil pan and fry.