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Also known as insect eating, insectivory, insectivore

thumb|Robber fly feeding on [[wasp]] thumb|Fried Saturniidae|saturniid [[caterpillars being served on bread for human consumption in Burkina Faso in 2015]]

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thumb|Robber fly feeding on [[wasp]] thumb|Fried Saturniidae|saturniid [[caterpillars being served on bread for human consumption in Burkina Faso in 2015]]

Entomophagy (, from Greek ἔντομον '''', 'insect', and φαγεῖν '''', 'to eat') is the practice of eating insects. An alternative term is insectivory.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “entomophagy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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