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  2. Witchetty grub - Wikipedia

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    The witchetty grub (also spelled witchety grub or witjuti grub [1]) is a term used in Australia for the large, white, wood-eating larvae of several moths.In particular, it applies to the larvae of the cossid moth Endoxyla leucomochla, which feeds on the roots of the witchetty bush (after which the grubs are named) that is widespread throughout the Northern Territory and also typically found in ...

  3. Endoxyla leucomochla - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Wurundjeri - Wikipedia

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    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".

  5. Indigenous Australian food groups - Wikipedia

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    Tyape atnyematye (Witchetty grub), Tyape ahernenge (River red gum grub), Tyape ankerrutne (Coolibah tree grub), Tyape tyerraye , Tyape ayepe-arenye (Tar vine caterpillars). 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

  6. 50 Times People Tasted Something Unusual Whether On Purpose ...

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    Witchetty grub. It looks like a fat shiny white caterpillar, an aboriginal elder came to our school when I was little (1989?ish) so we tasted bush tucker. Image credits: Thackham

  7. Adnyamathanha language - Wikipedia

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    A couple of witchetty grubs. "Witchetty grub": The word witchetty comes from the Adynyamathanha word witjuri, [15] from wityu, meaning 'hooked stick' and vartu, meaning 'grub'. Traditionally it is rare for men to dig for them. Witchetty grubs feature as Dreamings in many Aboriginal paintings. [citation needed] muda – songline

  8. Human interactions with insects - Wikipedia

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    Witchetty grubs were prized as food by the Arrernte people of Australia Entomophagy is the eating of insects. Many edible insects are considered a culinary delicacy in some societies around the world, and Frederick Simon Bodenheimer's Insects as Human Food (1951) drew attention to the scope and potential of entomophagy, but the practice is ...

  9. Australian Aboriginal culture - Wikipedia

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    Aboriginal boy eating witchetty grub: Yuendumu, 2017. Animal native foods include kangaroo, emu, witchetty grubs and crocodile, and plant foods include fruits such as quandong, kutjera, spices such as lemon myrtle and vegetables such as warrigal greens, bananas and various native yams.