When hunting is haunting - what a great story, with photos too!
This is one reason I've promoted entomophagy for years now - why do people eat cute, furry mammals who can make eye contact with us and even become pets (pigs!), yet cringe in horror at eating insects? Why isn't the horror over eating sheep, cows, pigs, beautiful birds (pheasants) and chickens (@owasco I haven't seen chicken stories from you since your move - no more urban chickens?).
That said, I rarely eat insects: mealworms cost $20 a pound if you can even find them.
We already ingest so many pounds a year of bugs and larvae - the USDA allows a percentage of them, and as long as they're invisible, we have no difficulty consuming them.
I've seen dog foods made with crickets, but always more expensive than made with meat scraps.

Japanese beetles: WAGE THE WAR!!

Knocking them into buckets of soapy water, I found, is the best way. Those traps with bait just attract millions of 'em from miles around.

If my family were starving, I might be able to hunt and kill bunnies and chickens, but for now, it's ever so much easier to allow the meat packing plants to do the dirty work, and we pay for those packaged cuts of meat without ever having to look the source in the eye.... no, I'm not vegan... with all my food allergies, especially the gluten-dairy-egg, meat is one of the few "safe" things I can eat. -_-