Have you created many insect farms?

For mantis, they'd eat any insect. From worms to house fry, everything.

(05-26-2012, 03:06 PM)Mantis Wrote: As an additional question, I mentioned western culture above. But in eastern culture, insect farming for food for humans is common. What do you think of that?

I do not think insect is "common in eastern culture" for human consumption.

I've been here (Shanghai, China) for the last 8 months. I haven't seen any insect as food for human. I visit different restaurants every day, but not once there is any insect on the menu. Nor I have even heard of anyone eat it. If it is indeed common, I think I'd see people eating it as they walk on the street. Apparently ice cream and candy bars are what I see people eating as they pass by.
I had also been to food markets and supermarkets. Not once I have seen any insect there. The only time I saw insect for sale (silkworms to be exactly) was at a pet market as bird feed.

Once on TV back in the U.S. however, I saw an old Indonesian lady was selling BBQ spiders.
One of the American TV crews bought one and was eating it.