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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 ...
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
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".
[4] [19] The witchetty grub (which are sometimes hepialid larvae) is a popular food source especially among aboriginal Australians. In Central America and South America, hepialid larvae are also eaten. [20]
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 #20.
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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 ...