W. BRUCE CAMERON - Nov. 17, 2011

Sometimes Dinner Really Bugs Me

You may wonder why insects are causing so much buzz lately. Its because people are eating them — and not just in order to get on Reality Television.

For example, in San Francisco, there's a food truck named Don Bugito that serves such fare as tacos made with fried wax-moth larvae. Look it up if you don't believe me. They also make food out of pallid worms, but I imagine when you hold the pallid worms up to the wax moths, the worms pale by comparison.

Eating bugs is called entomophagy — or, for short, gross. Most people don't eat bugs unless they're in the habit...