[ExI] will raise bugs for food

[darren shawn greer]

And I would like a clarification. Are we talking
> about bugs as food? Or insects (bugs with head, abdomen, and thorax)?


Good question. I've been using the term to denote insects and arachnids, as I usually do, but not crustaceans. (or of course micro-organisms.) All three fall under the Phyllum arthropod, so you could argue that bug refers to all of them, I suppose. Then the raising bugs for food argument would be kind of moot. We've been doing it for centuries.


Dictionary gives "bug" the loose definition as any insect or insect-like invertabrate and its specific definition as an hemipteron, for which is doesn't bother to give a working definition.


thefreedictionary.com defines hemipteron as follows:

Noun1.


hemipteron - insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis.

So yes, I guess a clarification of terms would be in order.

Darren



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> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:52:36 -0400
> From: sabrina.ballard at hotmail.com
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] will raise bugs for food
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> And another great thing to remember is that insects and bugs as a whole
> can be domesticated. And I would like a clarification. Are we talking
> about bugs as food? Or insects (bugs with head, abdomen, and thorax)?
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