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The raw witchetty grub tastes similar to almonds; [7] however, when cooked, the skin becomes crisp like roast chicken, while the inside becomes light yellow, like a fried egg, and the taste has been anecdotally described variously as like scrambled egg, chicken, or a "prawn with peanut sauce". [3] [8] [9] [10] These grubs live in trees.
The larva of the moth is commonly known as the "witchetty grub", and is widely used as bush tucker by Indigenous Australians. [1] The caterpillars of the species live in tunnels where they feed on the sap from the roots of the witchetty bush (Acacia kempeana) and the small cooba (Acacia ligulata).
Tyape atnyematye (Witchetty grub) find cracks in the ground underneath a Witchetty bush (Acacia kempeana)and dig there; lever up swollen root where the grubs are located; eat grubs raw or cooked in hot earth; squash guts of the grubs onto sores; Ngkwarle: honey-like foods; nectar, wild honey, lerps, gum
Bush tucker, also called bush food, is any food native to Australia and historically eaten by Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but it can also describe any native flora, fauna, or fungi used for culinary or medicinal purposes, regardless of the continent or culture.
Some modern reports of Wurundjeri traditional lore state that their ethnonym combines a word, wurun, meaning Manna gum/"white gum tree" [2] and djeri, a species of grub found in the tree, and take the word therefore to mean "Witchetty Grub People". [3]
A. kempeana inflorescences A. kempeana foliage and flowers. Acacia kempeana (Acacia or ακακία (akakia) from the Greek word Akis for thorn and kempeana after Pastor Kempe, co-founder of Lutheran Mission at Hermannburg-Ntaria in 1877), commonly known as wanderrie wattle, witchetty bush [1] or granite wattle, is a shrub in subfamily Mimosoideae of family Fabaceae that is endemic to arid ...
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Witchetty grubs (Endoxyla leucomochla) of the subfamily Zeuzerinae. This family includes many species with large caterpillars and moths with a wingspan from 9–24 cm (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). [citation needed] These moths are mostly grey; some have long, narrow wings and resemble hawkmoths (Sphingidae) which are more advanced ...