Eating Silkworm Pupae (Bombyx mori AKA  con nhộng and beondegi)
Channel: Bug Nomster
Date: 2012-07-24

This is a free gift that came with my order from Thailand Unique. It definitely suffered from being in the same dehydrated state as the other products, but it still managed to come out in second, right behind the scorpions.

This packaging was labeled as from insectescomestibles.fr (another site that sells dried insects for food), and as such, the packaging was in French, thus being labeled as vers a soie. There were definitely much more in this package than there were in any of the others. Good bang for the buck (especially since I got them for free).

It's my understanding that the cocoons are boiled to harvest the silk, and then the pupae are a natural byproduct. The pupae are then served boiled or roasted. Fun fact: one cocoon will provide 1,000 to 3,000 feet of silk.

One of these even had some silk fibers still on it.

This video is part of the Entomophagy Wiki project, which is attempting to catalog the world's collection of edible insects and other arthropods. Visit the Entomophagy Wiki homepage at http://entomophagy.wikia.com.

Look for my other three videos from this order, where I eat Chinese Yellow Scorpions, Giant Water Bugs, and Sago Worms.

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