Harvesting grasshoppers Sphenarium purpurascens in Mexico for human consumption: A comparison with insecticidal control for managing pest outbreaks

By R. Cerritos, Z. Cano-Santana. 2008

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State-of-the-art on use of insects as animal feed. (2014, background): “In Mexico, hand-picking of chapulines grasshoppers infesting alfalfa fields decreased environmental damage while generating an extra source of nutrition and income from the consumption and sale of grasshoppers (Cerritos and Cano-Santana, 2008).”
Nutritional and sensory quality of edible insects (2016, background): “ForexampleinMexico,chapulines(grasshop-pers of the genus Sphenarium ) are a frequent national dish together with beef and beans [10].”
Potential of insects as food and feed in assuring food security. (2013, background): “Manual harvesting in alfalfa reduced egg densities significantly but proved less effective than insecticide spraying (25).”
Insects as food: an ecological, social and economical approach. (2009, background): “In relation to the edible species that are at the same time pests in agricultural systems, it is necessary to extract a large fraction of the individuals [6, 12, 16, 26, 40, 103, 104].”