Maengda (Thai Rice Bug)

[lomuamart]

My missus says maengkap.

[Roel]

Big Boy, I also can confirm now that you DO hear properly!
I showed the picture to another staff member. She also pronounced it clearly as maengkap. I asked maengkap or maengtap. She said you can say both but in her dialect they say maengkap. She is from Khon Kaen. Another staff member who is from Bangkok confirmed they say maengtap. So this has now been thoroughly investigated through a linguistic field study and everything is sorted.

[Big Boy]

[PeteC]

Here is the link from the OP again for new readers of this thread. It gives the entire bug menu....except the particular one discussed above. Pete

http://importfood.com/thai_insects.html

[Nereus]

Yeah Pete, and also you might thow in the effects of all the chemical stuff that the farmers use on their plots now.
We used to go out into the paddies and easily catch loads of tiny fresh water shrimps, small cat fish and water snails. Very rare to see them in these times. The old timers say that since urea, in particular, became commonly used that things have changed .

No doubt that chemicals play a big role in Thai agriculture, but I think that the old timers may be a bit off the mark with urea. It is a fertiliser, comprised of around 45% Nitrogen. It is used to boost crop yields, not control insects. (the terrorists like to use it as it basically ammonium nitrate )