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Sapa-AFP > By Sapa-AFP - 17 May 2014 - 15:57 The voracious flying insect, capable of swarming in millions and stripping fields of crops, has long been associated with hunger. But if a major conference gathering food experts and entomologists is right, captive locusts - and many other protein-rich insects - will be heading to a menu near you just a few years from now. There are 2,000 sorts of insects that can be eaten. Insects are an enormous opportunity and a huge market, said Arnold van Huis, a professor at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, where the four-day Insects to Feed the World Conference began on Wednesday. ....