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the entomology club
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By Chris Martin
Staff writer
feredients for a quick snack — entomologist
lyle: “In one large bowl combine flour, sugar,
faking powder, salt and dry milk powder. Mix
jegg, butter and vanilla. Sprinkle liberally with
ets or other small insects of choice. Bake and
Sbute to strangers.”
[leidea of cricket cookies may put a
nsome people’s bonnets, but not the
bers of the Undergraduate Entomolo-
|ub. For Whoopstock the members de-
to give out a little more than informa-
bt their booth.
nAndes, a sophomore outdoor educa-
d| major, stopped at the club’s booth
n their sign caught his eye — a
for “bug food.”
hey had mealworm dip for
grasshopper chocolate chip
tes and brownies with grasshop-
Andes said. “At first it looked like
;ular cookie, but when I turned it
could see their heads and legs
Jittle chopped up pieces.”
lespite the initial shock of seeing
sin his food, Andes decided to
it a taste.
I just did it without thinking about it. It was a
tunnerving though when I heard it crunch,”
es said. “It tasted like a normal cookie, but
I an extra taste in there. It wasn’t quite as good
Inonnal cookie, but it could have just been all
pntal. It was okay, I just wouldn’t go order a
bunch or anything.”
Leann Casper, the club’s president and a ju
nior entomology major, said the main purpose
of the Whoopstock booth was to promote the
entomology department.
“A lot of times nobody knows [Texas A&M] has
an entomology department, or even what ento
mology is,” Casper said.
The club decided that giving out the
£ » “bug food” would be a good way to get
people’s attention at Whoopstock.
j, ^ “Before we made the food
we had about a hundred meal
worms and a hundred crickets
to de-head and de-wing,”
Casper said. “We ordered all the
specimens from a place in Cali
fornia, it was all sanitary. It’s not
like we just dug them up.”
The unique snacks
made quite an impres
sion on the booth patrons.
“Some people were grossed out, but
a lot of others thought it was neat. Peo
ple came up with their friends and dared
each other to eat it,” Casper said. “In
I other countries it’s common for people
' to eat insects, so I think we fit in very well
with Whoopstock’s international focus.”
Stephanie Obst, the club’s outgoing president
and a senior entomology major, said the club is a
great outlet for promoting outside contacts and
inside relationships.
“We have a barbecue each fall semester to
help orient the students and professors. We also
insects make for great snacks
had our first annual chili cook-off, and every- room,” Obst said. “We even have students who
one in the department was invited. It’s a good go into local schools and show live insects to
fij Trivedi, a management
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ic insect collections in
ss- kids and answer their questions.”
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