in different places, people eat over 1,000 too. for example, people in ancient Greece and Rome ate insects. American Indians ate grasshoppers, crickets, and caterpillars. today, in parts of Africa, people eat termites (insects that eat wood) and caterpillars as snacks. In Japan, some people eat grasshoppers with soy sauce. In small villages and in some restaurants in Thailand, people enjoy crickets and grasshoppers. In some Mexican restaurants, people pay $25 for a plate of butterfly larvae. In the United States, some restaurants now offer insects as a gourmet food. In China, people spend $100 million each year on ants.