Feeding animals (appropriate food) can help people establish a relationship with animals, which has been something people have done since before history. It will bring you closer to nature and make you more environmentally conscious.
While I'm no fan of 'sport' hunting, it does serve a purpose since we've already removed most of the big threats these animals would naturally face.
It's like when someone writes some terrible code and you write an external solution to one of the problems their code causes. Only in this case, instead of us doing a full rewrite, we need to leave nature alone and rewrite itself. Our intervening by culling predators is not sustainable because we can't properly calculate the effects and it has damaged predator populations so severely. We also didn't anticipate for example how diseased and disgusting deer would get without proper, natural, regular culling by their predators.
So yeah there are 'reasons' for doing it, but none of them are holistically wise choices for their respective ecosystems.
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U can use them to enrich your standard meal with protein, they have a great ratio protein/fat and you can make keto treats out of them or use them to make treats for the dog. U can use them to feed your local fish, birds, hedgehogs, mice, rats.
They can be used to recycle certain types of plastic, and their composition doesn't change much. They usually don't like it moist(desert insects), but somehow they got in my terrarium and are thiving there.
I keep them around as another food source for times of starvation (kinda paranoid about crisis).
Fastest way of killing them is by drowning, they'll move forever in a microwave or frying pan.
They'll eat anything that contains moisture, preferably protein. I've fed them roadkill, eggshells(they scrape the inside of the shell and make it pretty brittle), other insects, all kinds of veggies, a few of them die when there's pesticides on the food - a good way to test your local veggies for them.
The only thing they won't touch is a cookie from McDonalds. If even the bugs avoid that we shouldn't prolly be eating that.
The larvae and pupae are edible, the bugs are yummy to birds, but I wouldn't try one, they smell bad when stressed. The bugs can fly and will if there's over population or not enough food. Bugs love protein as well, but seem to be doing fine just with cardboard and occasional water spraying.