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Gourmet bug
Bamboo worm, also known as bamboo bee and bamboo maggot, is called "bamboo shoot maggot" by Guangning people. It eats tender bamboo shoots to absorb nutrients, grows from the size of rice grains to the size of fingers 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 pupa. 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. But bamboo worms are sweet and fragrant, as if they taste like cream. Bamboo worms are also a delicacy of Jinuo people.