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Eating huhu grubs (3rd of 3)

Eating huhu grubs

Each year at the Hokitika Wildfoods festival, cooked huhu grubs are on the menu. They are said to taste like peanut butter.

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Hokitika Wildfoods Festival
Photograph by John McCombe

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George Gibbs, 'Insects – overview - In the bush', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/10076/eating-huhu-grubs (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by George Gibbs, published 24 Sep 2007