In our south is rich in moso bamboo mountainous area, every late spring and early summer, moso bamboo has a new life to break out of the soil, people call it bamboo shoots, for bamboo shoots, I believe everyone is very familiar, and a kind of insect born in the bamboo shoots, it is estimated that the people who understand it will not be much better, in fact, this bug is still a special food, not only has unexpected application value. Today, let's take a look at this kind of insect that is not beautiful but delicious.
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What exactly is a bamboo worm
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Bamboo insects, also known as bamboo shoots, bamboo borers, bamboo elephants. It is mainly distributed in the bamboo forests of northern Thailand, northern Laos, northern Myanmar and colder areas near Yunnan Province in China. The body is slender, about 4 cm, and the body is white. There are also varieties with oval and fat bodies (it is said that this taste is not as good as ↑ this).
Growth characteristics of bamboo insects</h1>
Adult bamboo worms lay their eggs on tender bamboo shoots. After hatching, the bamboo worms gather on top of the bamboo shoots and chew them out of a small hole that enters the inside of the bamboo shoots. After entering the inside of the bamboo shoots, the bamboo worms will seal the hole that enters the bamboo shoots and then chew another ventilation hole for themselves.
Later in life, all the bamboo worms need to do is to run through the bamboo knots as they grow, from the roots to the top of the bamboo.
After entering the inside of the bamboo for about 2 months, they will return to the roots from the top of the bamboo and enter a diapause period of up to 8 to 9 months, after which they will go through a pupal period of about 2 months, and the adults of the bamboo worms will finally break out of the pupal, emerge from the bamboo, and mate around July and August.
Edible value of bamboo worms</h1>
There are many ways to eat bamboo worms, but the most common one is to blanch it in boiling water and fry it. Other ways to eat include, but are not limited to, steaming, stir-frying, steaming eggs, and making chocolate.
Bamboo worms are rich in protein, amino acids, fatty acids, mineral elements, vitamins and other nutrients, protein content of up to 30% to 40%, amino acid content of 29.90%, crude fat content of 60.42%, unsaturated fatty acid content of 55.9%, very rich in nutrition. The fried bamboo worms taste similar to those of French fries, and the taste is delicious, like cream.
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At present, bamboo insects mainly rely on the collection of wild land, which requires cutting down a large number of wild bamboo, which cannot be ignored. In recent years, many farmers in the southern mountainous areas have begun to artificially cultivate bamboo insects, and the scale is getting larger and larger, and the breeding technology is becoming more and more mature. According to a farmer in Guangxi, as far as the current situation is concerned, bamboo insect breeding technology is not difficult, the core is the market! At present, it belongs to the stage of expanding the breeding of breeding insects, and the supply is in short supply. In the long run, it is necessary to locate the production and sales of commodity insects is the long-term development strategy: commodity insects are indeed delicious, a bit like bee pupae, so as long as you do a good job of sales, how much money is a problem.
Raising bamboo worms has little investment and a short cycle, (from the introduction of seed worms, eggs are laid after about 3 days, and after 5 days of egg laying, the seed worms can separate into another pot to continue laying eggs.) The eggs laid can be sold in about 15-20 days. The insects can be used for about 3 months. From the egg start around the 25th-30th day the larvae cocoon, and the adults enter the next cycle around the 50th-60th day). It is a typical short and fast project.