I heard from my friends in Yunnan that it seems to be called a bamboo bug. Bamboo worm is also called bamboo bee and bamboo maggot, and Guangning people call it "bamboo shoot maggot". It eats tender bamboo shoots to absorb nutrients, grows from rice grain size to finger size within 20 days, parasitizes in bamboo tubes, eats from bamboo tips section by section, and finally hides in roots, stops eating and prepares to break out of cocoons.

It is recognized that bamboo worms are rich in high protein and amino acids. Look at the bamboo worms. It is fat and white, about 3 cm long, spindle-shaped, round, with thin eyes and a small black mouth. Some people praise it as cute, others hate it. Bamboo worms are sweet and fragrant, as if they taste like cream.