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Yes, we do. some ordos of insects commonly eaten by some communities in my country. such as grasshoppers, crickets, sago caterpillars, and isoptera
Yes, its a behavior of traditional indigenous peoples.
I read in some papers of Brazilian researchers (attached below) and Coleoptera's larvae seem to be the most frequent on the menu these people. But even today I like to eat a kind of ant, "tanajura" (fertile females of Atta spp.).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0101-81751983000200001;
COSTA-NETO, Eraldo Medeiros. Insetos como fontes de alimentos para o homem: Valoração de recursos considerados repugnantes. INCI [online]. 2003, vol.28, n.3, pp. 136-140. ISSN 0378-1844.
Humans have consumed insects for thousands of years but nowadays insect consumption is declining.
According to Wijesekera (1964) indigenous "Vaddha" people eat bee brood and bee larvae. However, Sinhalese (majority in Sri Lanka) do not eat insects.
Sri Lanka as a potential gene pool of edible insects
http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1380e/i1380e03.pdf
In Mexico they are part of diet since prehispanic times. The most consumed are: Escamoles (ante eggs; insect caviar), chapulin (grasshoppers), maguey worm (very expensive), jumiles (stink bugs).
Here in northern Namibia the Mopani worm (actually a caterpillar) is popular food and seasonally sold along the roads in areas with Mopani tree woodland.
In Mauritius and Reunion Island, local people eat the larvae of wasps: Polistes hebraeus ! It is very appreciated and traditionally consumed fried.
In Thailand different kinds of insects are eaten. I think that is the leading country in the world to commercialize edible insects. http://www.iufost.org/iufostftp/Revd%20Sirithon%20Chapter%2016.pdf
Especially during their irregular outbreaks, desert locusts are considered a great delicacy in Yemen (and posing major problems with parallel eradication campaigns), whereas at the onset of rains in Northern Cameroon and Chad (where I live at the moment) (male) termites flying out are much sought after. AS far as I am aware off, little to none has been published on this.
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