华中科技大学的一名大一新生有着不寻常的嗜好—吃昆虫。瞧，刚刚到学校的头两天，丁钰就当着同学的面吃了20多只活的黑蚂蚁。很快，有个新生喜欢吃虫子的消息就在校园里传开了。

Dingyu, a freshman of Huzhong University of Science and Technology, has an offbeat hobby ---eat insects. Look, just few days after arriving at college, Ding’s special hobby already made himself known by the campus. He ate more than 20 black ants before his classmates. 

丁钰是河北省张家口市区人，当地环境特殊，三面环山，离内蒙古较近。“我家乡那边昆虫特别多，爷爷奶奶原来都是渔民，特别喜欢吃蛐蛐、蝉、蚂蚁之类的小昆虫，而妈妈喜欢吃蚂蚁，爸爸喜欢吃蝈蝈。我的四个表妹和三个表姐都吃一些昆虫。”丁钰告诉记者，“我自己从小就比较喜欢生吃一些蚂蚁、蚱蜢、毛毛虫之类的小昆虫，把毛毛虫用小木棍串起来烤熟了吃就像是羊肉串一样，特别好吃，我把这些都当作我的零食了。”

Dingyu born in Changchiakou, Hebei province, which is surrounded on three sides by high mountains, and very close to Inner Mongollia. The local environmental condition is special. “my hometown has all kinds of insects, my grandpa and grandma are fisherman. They love eat some gnats such as crickets, cicadas and ants. My mum likes eat ants and father like crickets very much. What’s more, some of my cousins also eat insects.” Ding told to our reporter, “ I like eat ants, crickets, caterpillars and other kinds of gnats since from my childhood. Usually, I will skewer caterpillars and toasts them like mutton shashlik. Very delicious! I take them as my snacks.” 

上中学的时候，他有几个同学也喜欢吃虫子。于是，他们有时候就一起去附近的山包上捉虫子，然后烧着吃，他们管这个叫作“开昆虫PARTY”。

When he was in midschool, some of his classmates also like eat insects. Then sometimes they will go to catch insects on nearby hills together, and bake those insects, they called that “insetcs party”.

昆虫富含多种营养，包括蛋白质、脂类、矿物质（锌，铁）和维他命。除了比鱼肉产品含有更丰富的蛋白质和矿物质外，还有人体必需的氨基酸、更低的卡路里，而且极易被人体吸收，符合现代人追求健康的饮食要求。专家认为，未来有一天，健康的“虫子”食品将取代今天的高脂肪食物，成为新的时尚小吃。他告诉记者，内蒙古有一道菜叫“蚂蚁炒鸡蛋”，是专门给最尊贵的客人吃的。但是不是什么虫子都能吃，“吃也是要分生熟的，比如蚂蚁就可以生吃，而蚯蚓就不行。”

Insects are rich in various nutritions, such as protein, fats, minerals (zinc, iron) and vitamin. Their nutritious substances are richer than that of fish or flesh. Furthermore, they are low calorie and contain essential amino acids, so it’s easy-absorb. All this make insects meet modern people’s green diet requirement. Experts think that perhaps one day, healthy insects will take the place of today’s high-fat food and become a fashionable snacks. He told reporter, “Inner Mongollia has desighed a special dish for their VIP, called “Scrambled egg with ants”. But not all insects.“we must differ raw or cooked before eating. For example, we can eat raw ants but not earthworms.

“很多昆虫富含蛋白质，但吃昆虫也是有选择的，不到万不得已想吃的时候任何昆虫都不要吃。”丁钰说道，“我可以分辨很多常见的有毒和无毒的昆虫，其实大部分昆虫都是可以吃的。”

“ many insects are rich in in various nutritions, but we still have to choose insects’s species. Don't eat any of them till the last extremity. ” Ding said, “I’m able to distinguish many insects, from poisonous to nontoxic ones, in fact, a majority of insects are safe to eat.”