At the exhibit, visitors have the opportunity to increase their protien intake by trying creeping, crawling, flying, and sometimes frightening insects. The exhibit wa designed to introduce people to a whole range of edible insects and arachnids. Norton hopes the exhibit will help dispell some of the exreme prejudices that keep americans from dining on delicacies like Honey Pot Ants-worker ants that swell their abdomens with a sweet sugar solution. Before you wrinkly your nose at downing a handful of succluent ants, consider why we eat what we eat, norton says. It's pretty strange when you think about it, he said.
Many people enjoy eating invertebrates such as lobster, shrimp, and crayfish, clam.
Bugs and spiders aren't so different. In fact, insects are so similar to shellfish that people who have allergies to seafood might also be allergic to insects, Norton said. Insects have probably been a part of our diet. Pleanty of reasons to eat 'em says norton. A buffet of a dozen different insect dishes may have something to tempt the taste buds.