Explain the evolution of entomophagy in insects.
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Entomophagy (/ˌɛntəˈmɒfədʒi/, from Greek ἔντομον éntomon, 'insect', and φᾰγεῖν phagein, 'to eat') describes the practice of eating insects by humans (as well as by non-human species).
The eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults of certain insects have been eaten by humans from prehistoric times to the present day.[1] Around 3,000 ethnic groups practice entomophagy.[2] Human insect-eating is common to cultures in most parts of the world, including Central and South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Eighty percent of the world's nations eat insects of 1,000 to 2,000 species.[3][4] In some societies entomophagy is uncommon or taboo. today , insect eating is uncommon in North America and Europe, but insects remain a popular food elsewhere, and some companies are trying to introduce insects as food into Western diets.[11] FAO has registered some 1,900 edible insect species and estimates that there were, in 2005, some two billion insect consumers worldwide. They suggest eating insects as a possible solution to environmental degradation caused by livestock production
insect evolude form a group of crustaceans. the first insect were land bound but about 400 million years ago in the devonion period