{"id":75279,"date":"2025-11-21T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/nov\/21\/turning-stink-bug-infestations-into-lunch-india-the-alternatives"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:00:07","slug":"weve-been-eating-it-for-more-than-100-years-how-one-community-turns-stink-bug-infestations-into-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75279","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019ve been eating it for more than 100 years\u2019: how one community turns stink bug infestations into lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In India\u2019s Mizoram state, people have an intricate system of harvesting and consuming the pungent and nutritious bugs<\/p>\n<p>Every few years when <em>Udonga montana<\/em>, a bamboo-feeding stink bug, erupts in massive swarms, the people of the Mizo community in northern India don\u2019t reach for pesticides. Instead, they look for baskets.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, this small brown stink bug is called <em>thangnang<\/em>. Outsiders see them as an infestation but in the bamboo forests of Mizoram state this small brown bug has long been woven into the food culture.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/nov\/21\/turning-stink-bug-infestations-into-lunch-india-the-alternatives\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In India\u2019s Mizoram state, people have an intricate system of harvesting and consuming the pungent and nutritious bugsEvery few years when Udonga montana, a bamboo-feeding stink bug, erupts in massive swarms, the people of the Mizo community in northern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5067,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,311,62,777,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-food","category-india","category-insects","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75280,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75279\/revisions\/75280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}