Caterpillars are a favorite food of Central Africans. The caterpillar is usually 4-5 centimeters long and attaches itself to a broad-leaved tree called "Saphongli". Because of its fragrance, the caterpillar attracts adults to the tree to lay eggs. The leaves are soft and juicy, and the caterpillars love to eat them. They start hatching out small insects from April to May, and the larvae begin to mature by July, dropping to the ground one by one.

July, August and September are good times for Central Africans to pick up caterpillars, and some people even skip work to catch them in the virgin forests, where they are said to earn far more than their wages. Caterpillar stalls abound in many urban farmers' markets and along country roads. Women hold plastic buckets with their hands, the caterpillars inside the buckets are constantly wriggling, the ground is spread with fresh banana leaves, on top of which is placed a pile of caterpillars, these caterpillars are full of fluffy hairs, red, yellow, green, blue and other colors, as if the palette is generally colorful. Whenever this time, the market cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens and other food sales will be reduced, the price also fell, Central Africans have caterpillars do not want to eat other meat.

Central Africans eat caterpillars is generally the first to put it in the water to wash, and then put into the oil palm oil frying, become a "fried caterpillar", eat and fragrant and crispy. To make "boiled caterpillar", the caterpillar is simply boiled in water, then fished out and eaten with fine salt. In addition to caterpillars, Central Africans also eat brown grain moth larvae, white grubs, gray maize heartworms, large and small tigers, locusts, tortoises, and more than a dozen other insects. Central Africa is full of reckless primitive forests and grasslands, is still slash-and-burn primitive agriculture, basically no use of pesticides, chemical fertilizers, for the reproduction of insects provides a unique condition, but also for the Central Africans to provide a wealth of insect food.