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 the bamboo worm is sweet and fragrant, and it seems to taste like cream. Bamboo worms are also a delicacy of Jinuo people.

Bamboo insect is the larva of Lepidoptera bamboo moth (a kind of moth), and bamboo elephant is a pest that harms bamboo forest. It lays eggs and hatches in tender bamboo, and the larvae grow by sucking the meat and water on the inner wall of bamboo. Once damaged, tender bamboo can't grow into wood. Bamboo worms are white and shaped like cordyceps sinensis. People cook bamboo worms in boiling water, then fry them in oil pan and eat them. They are very crispy and delicious. Bamboo worms parasitize on annual bamboo shoots in groups, and the eating state is larvae, and they appear from 10 to February of the following year.