In Kampong Thom, the Cambodian cricket capital, children bag crickets for sale locally or export to other places in Asia where it is a delicacy. (Photo: Erika Kinetz, The Christian Science Monitor)
A captured cricket. (Photo: Erika Kinetz, The Christian Science Monitor)
Cricket harvesters, like Ang Thy trap the insects by drawing them with lights in the night. (Photo: Erika Kinetz, The Christian Science Monitor)
Those Cambodian people who continue to harvest insects such as cricket will damage Cambodian ecosystem in some invisible way.
ReplyDeleteBirds, snakes, frogs, and rats and bats...other animals depend on insects for survival too
Cambodian next big disaster is just around the corner!