① Yang Xingyu, 23, took a liking to fried (油炸的) insects the first time she ate them while traveling in Lijiang, Yunnan province. I ate fried locusts (蝗虫) and silkworm chrysalises (蚕蛹). Although they looked a little strange, they were crispy. I now eat them for nutrition (营养),” she said. Like Yang, about 2 billion people around the world have added insects such as beetles, caterpillars (毛毛虫) and bees into their diets, according to a UN report. They can be fried, baked, cooked with soup and mixed with dessert.