In Sweden, there is no tradition of eating insects.

What a great question.

In USA we do not eat insects. They are yucky. That said, we are happy to consume ketchup, peanut butter and other products. So far I have not found anyone who refuses to eat such products because they have bug parts.

Insects are sometimes eaten as a novelty, or "I dare you to eat this." Crickets and mealworms are most common.

Dear Dr. Sofia Mam,

We in Assam(India) use to consume the pupae of the Lepidopteran insect Muga and Eri silkworm. They are very delicious and highly proteinaceous as well. This is mostly common among the Ahom community. However, there are many insect's consumed by different tribes of North East India.

I forgot a link

https://projects.ncsu.edu/cals/course/ent425/text18/food.html

Me and my wife (Indian) have recently started eating insects. We mostly eat the insects (mealworms, crickets and grasshoppers) at resturants or tasting sessions. Normally, a large fractions of Indians are vegetarians, however many belonging to the North Eastern states consume insects. Dr. Jharna Chakarvorty and her colleagues have published extensive reports on the entomophagy in North East India.

Dear Sofia Mam,

I also didn't mean that Mam, I have only made my comment giving a knowledge on the edible insect's of this part of the globe. You would be glad to know that the insect's which I have mentioned are reared outdoor and domestically as well. They are endemic to Assam and it's surrounding states. The former one is famous all over the world for its fine golden coloured silk fibres and the costumes made from it is very precious and costly. You can also get some details from some of my publication's if you desire to know more about this beautiful creature.

Their pupae are traditionally consumed by the Ahom community for its high protein content. 

Anyway, don't take it otherwise Mam, as I also didn't mean to check your comment.

Hoping to see a reply from you

Thanks

 In Colombia the most famous edible insect is the ant Atta laevigata, one of the largest leaf-cutter ants (known as hormiga culona or “big-butt ant” in Spanish) It’s a tradition inherited from the Guanes people who lived in Santander. These ants are only harvested during the rainy season. They are believed to be aphrodisiacs and are often given as wedding gifts. For more information see this link

http://www.colombia.co/en/culture/food/colombian-insects-can-eat.html

Regards,

Luis Miguel

In Nigeria ,we  eat insects(grasshoppers, termites and other insect larvae)

Great info from you all thanks and so interesting to hear from different traditions and experiences. Love to get some more knowledge about this from other areas as well!

In China, we eat pupae of silkworm, cicada, saturniid silkworm honey bee, larvae or nymph  of  honey bee, bamboo moth, grasshoppers, and mealwormas well.

Dear All,

Insects belonged to the normal  food of our ancestors.  They are nutritive containing much proteins and other essential substances. Regarding the increasing demand for food, we should be familiarised with the idea of eating at least processed insects. There are many research and results in this topic:  

http://www.wur.nl/en/article/insects-as-human-food.htm

http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3253e/i3253e.pdf

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0261219492900206

Also Aman Paul has worked in this area (crickets as feed) at the Liege university. About two years ago I tried to organise a research project on producing insects as food and feed but unfortunately the interest of RG peers was weak.

Dear All,

Two days ago I met teachers of the Louisiana State University, they mentioned that near Baton Rouge there an operating cricket farm producing feed for farm animals.  

In  a region in Colombia called Santander (a State or Department) people eat ants. They are salty and delicious. Ants are "exported" to other regios of the country and many foreigners do like and enjoy them. There are different ways how people eat them,. but it is usually as snacks.

These are called "bumpy ants", for their size is bigger than average, and do have, indeed, a rather big behind.

Dear All,

Dear Carlos,

There are not only salty ants. Honey pot ants are the excellent dessert for them who enjoy sweeties

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_ant

Americans sometimes buy chocolate coated ants as a novelty food. My father ate grasshoppers cooked in oil, in Oregon. Unfortunately I do not know the species. I have worked in Australia and the grubs of long horn beetles are eaten by both the indigenous people and as a delicacy in some circles by the non-indigenous population. There is also a 19th century book sometimes reprinted in the Hague, called "Why Not Eat  Insects?:

Although not much of it is in my country this documentary covers a lot of the world and a lot of it is about eating insects.

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-fK4ESb-vo

Thanks! Its blocket from viewing here, but I'll find its somehow.