Someone on the Calorie Restriction list was kind enough to post this data.
It comes from a web site, I don't know the url, but I will ask for it and
post it here if I get it.  Sorry for the poor quality, it originally came
from an html table and I ended up re-typing the whole thing.

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Nutritional Value of Various Insects per 100 grams
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INSECT        PROTEIN(g) FAT(g) CARBs(g) CALCIUM(mg) IRON(mg) CALORIES  FAT%
Giant Water Beetle 19.8   8.3    2.1      43.5        13.6     162.3   46.0%
Red Ant            13.9   3.5    2.9      47.8         5.7      98.7   31.9%
Silk Worm Pupae     9.6   5.6    2.3      41.7         1.8      98     51.4%
Dung Beetle        17.2   4.3    0.2      30.9         7.7     108.3   35.7%
Cricket            12.9   5.5    5.1      75.8         9.5     121.5   40.7%
Small Grasshopper  20.6   6.1    3.9      35.2         5       152.9   35.9%
Large Grasshopper  14.3   3.3    2.2      27.5         3        95.7   31.0%
June Beetle        13.4   1.4    2.9      22.6         6        77.8   16.2%
Caterpillar         6.7   N/A    N/A      N/A         13.1      N/A     N/A
Termite            14.2   N/A    N/A      N/A         35.5      N/A     N/A
Weevil              6.7   N/A    N/A      N/A         13.1      N/A     N/A
Beef (Lean Ground) 27.4   N/A    N/A      N/A          3.5      N/A     N/A
Fish (Broiled Cod) 28.5   N/A    N/A      N/A          1        N/A     N/A

Data collected from The Food Insects Newsletter, July 1996 (Vol. 9, No. 2,
ed. by Florence V. Dunkel, Montana State University) and Bugs In the System,
by May Berenbaum

This page is part of the Iowa State Entomology site. Page by Jared Ostrem.
Last updated February 20, 1997 by John VanDyk
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The "Calories" and "Fat%" (the % of calories from fat) columns are my
addition.

I wish I had more detailed data on the micronutrients.  It would probably
show the little critters to be very nutritious.  This would be a good plug
for my high nutrient/low calorie position as a true h/g diet.

Also, I would be careful about the apparently "high" fat%'s, and using this
as an argument for a high meat diet with lots of fat.  Even if a h/g
subsisted soley on the most fatty insect listed here they would still only
be getting about 50% fat.  I doubt this would happen (it would be an
unbalanced diet anyway).  To me it seems obvious that where a h/g collects
any appreciable amount of insects there will also be plenty of vegetation to
collect as well, maybe at the same time.  Obviously this would bring down
the h/g's diet to lower fat %'s.  I believe a h/g diet represents a much
larger variety of plant and animal types than this warped example of eating
all one insect type.

Anyway, I hope people find this interesting.

James Crocker
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"Beautiful are the things we see.
More beautiful those we understand.
Much the most beautiful those we do
not comprehend."
Niels Steensen, 1638-1686
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