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Grasshoppers eat large quantities of foliage both as adults and during their development, and can be serious pests of arid land and prairies. Pasture, grain, forage, vegetable and other crops can be affected. Grasshoppers often bask in the sun, and thrive in warm sunny conditions, so drought stimulates an increase in grasshopper populations.
Locusts, such as this migratory locust (Locusta migratoria), are grasshoppers in a migratory phase of their life. Millions of swarming Australian plague locusts on the move. Locusts (derived from the Latin locusta, locust or lobster [1]) are various species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase.
Insects bred in captivity offer a low space-intensive, [12] highly feed-efficient, [4] relatively pollution-free, [13] high-protein source of food for both humans and non-human animals. Insects have a high nutritional value, dense protein content and micronutrient and probiotic potential.
Acrida cinerea, sometimes called the Oriental longheaded grasshopper/locust [1] or the Chinese grasshopper [2] though this name is also applied to Oxya chinensis, [citation needed] is a member of the Acrididae family.
Insects generally have a higher food conversion efficiency than more traditional meats, measured as efficiency of conversion of ingested food, or ECI. [96] While many insects can have an energy input to protein output ratio of around 4:1, raised livestock has a ratio closer to 54:1. [97]
There is a long tradition in Africa and Asia of eating insects, and these provide a high quality source of animal protein, nutritionally superior to beef and chicken. Grasshoppers are the most widely eaten insect and Zonocerus variegatus is a common species that has been eaten traditionally for centuries. In the dry season in northern Nigeria ...
Insects as food or edible insects are insect species used for human consumption. [1] Over 2 billion people are estimated to eat insects on a daily basis. [ 2 ] Globally, more than 2,000 insect species are considered edible, though far fewer are discussed for industrialized mass production and regionally authorized for use in food.
Many grasshoppers, such as individuals from the family Acrididae, have diets consisting primarily of plants from the family Poaceae. [5] Although humans are not graminivores, we do get much of our nutrition from a type of grass called cereal, and especially from the fruit of that grass which is called grain. [6]