For those of you who do not know, pillbugs, also known as sowbugs, are half-inch long segmented critters you find under every wet rock in New England. They are neither insects nor millepeds, but isopods, an order within class Crustacea. Before you run off to find and taste one -- don't! People had tried, and they taste like kerosene. (Which makes me wonder, how does anyone know what kerosene tastes like? Perhaps same people who attempt eating pillbugs... ) OTOH, order Isopoda has much larger AND TASTIER marine species:
http://www.bio.psu.edu/cold_seeps/foodisop.html
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02mexico/logs/oct13/media/isopod.html
On the list of "things to do before I die": Eat a giant isopod!
http://www.bio.psu.edu/cold_seeps/foodisop.html
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02mexico/logs/oct13/media/isopod.html
On the list of "things to do before I die": Eat a giant isopod!