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Ameisen t1_jdfvy3h wrote

Reply to comment by BobbyP27 in Do insects have "meat" like other animals? I know that grubs, mealworms, etc. are eaten in some parts of the world, but if, for instance, beetles were the size of cows, could you butcher one and make beetle steak? by 9RFCat9

Insects are actually a clade of the crustaceans. Their closest relatives are the remipedes.

That is to say that phylogenetically, all insects are crustaceans.

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