云南各族人民有吃虫的习俗,用虫烹出的美味佳肴还是滇菜中的名菜,滇菜谱中就有:云南十八怪,竹虫蜂儿炸盘菜。竹虫就是竹蛆,是竹子的天敌,大者长短粗细和人的拇指相似,小者约有一根火柴长,三粒糯米粗。大者米黄色,全身是油;小者纯自如奶,一身脂肪,都寄生在嫩竹里。生了竹虫,竹子长不高,竹节短而密,危害竹子。为了保护竹子,人们只要一发现竹节密而有虫眼,就把竹子砍了,取虫而食。一节竹子有大的竹虫8只左右,一棵竹子有30只左右;小的一节竹子里有成百只,一棵竹子有几百只。如果发现竹虫还小,未成熟,可砍 People of all ethnic groups in Yunnan have the habit of eating insects, delicacies cooked with insects or Dian dishes in the famous dishes, there are Yunnan cuisine: Yunnan strange, bamboo worms fried dishes. Bamboo worms are bamboo maggots, is the natural enemy of bamboo, the length of the big and the human thumb length similar to the small about a match long, three glutinous rice thick. The big beige, the body is oil; small pure milk, a fat, are parasitic in the tender bamboo. Born bamboo worms, bamboo is not high, short and dense bamboo, endangering bamboo. In order to protect the bamboo, people only cut bamboo and find the insect pest, and cut the bamboo and take the worm. A bamboo has about 8 large bamboo worms, a bamboo has about 30; a small section of bamboo there are hundreds, a few hundred bamboo. If you find that bamboo beetle is small, immature, can be cut