Hans Kylberg wrote:  Bears (omnivourus animals, just like us) dip a front
leg in an ant-hill so the ants crawl up on it, then lick off.  I tried to
eat them one by one, but the taste is very sharply sour, so it is hard to
get used to eat them.

Kendra:
Does it matter what kind of ants one is going to eat?  I mean, I certainely
am not going to try to catch fire ants.  I, accidentely, stick my foot in
an anthill sometimes, I guess I could lick them off. LOL  Do you kill the
ants before you put them in your mouth?

We have some really big red harvester ants and some sort of insect that I
think is an ant.  It is about 1/2 an inch long and is red and black.  They
look a little hairy but I have not got quite close enough to one of them
yet.

Is there a concern about the insects one might want to eat (including
grasshopers) and all the environmental hazards, such as pesticides,
chemicals, and poisons found in the farmers' fields, neighbors' yards ...
that they are exposed to (but did not die from)?

S.B. Feldman write:  ants contain formic acid which which is involved in
the making of formaldehyde.

Kendra:
Is this formic acid bad or good for humans?

Kendra
NeanderTwin