"All organisms engender chemical signals, and all, in their respective ways, respond to the chemical emissions of others. The result is a vast communicative interplay, fundamental to the fabric of life.”
About 255 species of insects are consumed as food by tribal people in India. Most of the edible insects belongs to the order coleoptera followed by Orthoptera (24%); Hemiptera (17%); Hymanoptera (10%); Odonatae (8%).