The North Carolina Museum of Natural Science holds an annual festival featuring which culinary treat?

Each year in the U.S. the nation’s largest bug-centric festival celebrating all things buggy (Insecta) happens each September at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. It features events and places like the Roachingham 500 and Café Insecta.

Many local chefs will cook up some tasty treats featuring–you guessed it– edible bugs (insects). Each chef likes to think that he/she can make tasty and delectable dishes featuring creepy crawlers as a major ingredient at Café Insecta. Also, mixed with educational programming, music and entertainment, and a fun opportunity for people to interact with entomologists and other scientists, people enjoy the Beekeeping Workshop, the unusual bug contest to the stump the experts table, and joining the moths, fireflies and katydids for an exhilarating evening of nocturnal activities at the Evening Insectival.

Many of the participants freely say that several of the events are family favorites. This is especially true since one of the best parts of the festival, it’s all free!

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Howard Groopman

Questions such as this simply bug me.

Owen Tucker

So you’re saying that you’ll eat bugs and like it because of climate change?

shootit

Howard Groopman, 😂😂

Cujo

Jenny Craig does the same thing with tapeworms.

fishrmn

Ate chocolate covered ants a few times. Taste like slightly bitter dark chocolate.

joycekingsmith

recote, Yum! Sounds like all kinds of fun.

aaustin

Howard Groopman, That was very punny!

aaustin

I took an educated guess. But it sounds like fun. I was introduced to Edible Bugs when I was 11 by my 24 year old brother. I had traveled to L.A. to attend his college graduation. Brought home a can of fried grasshoppers!

Donna Smith

Yuck.. But I Got the correct answer

Cheryl McMeekin

Great question, might have to try some chocolate covered bugs someday!!! Lol

Don Racette

Howard Groopman Great response!

recote

I ate bugs, and creepy crawlers, and snakes during survival training. I had some motivation from the fact that my father homesteaded in northern Canada in November. He hiked in 60 miles and did not go back for supplies until March. It snowed the 1st morning after he arrived. If he could do that I could spend a week in the wilderness in September, in Washington.

Andre White

I had a biology teacher who for years and years had a tradition of giving an 'A' to any student who could eat the chocolate covered grasshoppers she routinely brought to class! 😀 No Thanks! I'll take a C!!

dsneed

I had chocolate covered baby bumble bees at one point. You could compare that to a Nestles Crunch. Nonetheless, it is a Natural Science museum, so you take the "logical" step to nature which is of course bugs. Yay me.