grasshopper

Singapore recently approved 16 types of bugs, including crickets, silkworms, grasshoppers and honey bees, as food.

This summer, thousands of grasshoppers will take flight in northeast California, eating everything in their path and likely destroying crops along the way.

“It wasn’t like we saw him pulling the wings of grasshoppers just to watch them suffer. He wasn’t one of those people,” Prof Webb says.

To date, scientists have found at least six orders of insects -- including moths, beetles, crickets and grasshoppers -- that have evolved ears capable of detecting ultrasound.

Andrew Jack, a private chef in Chicago, cooks with grasshoppers, ants and their larvae, and other insects, but said he finds the quality of these ingredients in the United States to be extremely unpredictable.