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Updated: May 27, 2025
Groogroo worms are considered great delicacies in some parts of the West Indies, chiefly in those whose inhabitants are of French or Spanish origin. The good old planter at his table presents you with a dish of worms, with as much pride as an epicure in England introduces you to cod-sounds, eels, or high venison.
Indeed, the groogroo worm is by no means more repulsive in appearance than any of the other unprepossessing creatures which are so highly prized.
They ultimately settled at Macao in 1846, and there compiled the narrative from which we have been quoting. By M. Huc. Translated by W. Hazlitt. London. Among the variety of curious insects which are common to tropical climates, the groogroo worms of the West Indies may be considered particularly interesting.
On the right, too, in a hollow, was a whole wood of Groogroo palms, gray stemmed, gray leaved, and here and there a patch of white or black Roseau rose gracefully eight or ten feet high among the reeds. The plateau of pitch now widened out, and the whole ground looked like an asphalt pavement, half overgrown with marsh-loving weeds, whose roots feed in the sloppy water which overlies the pitch.
From the peculiar manner in which they are produced, and from the circumstance of their constituting a choice article of food for man, they become entitled to some attention. The groogroo worm so called because it is found in a species of palm vulgarly called the groogroo is the larva of a large-sized beetle, the Prionus, which is peculiar to the warm latitudes of America.
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