They come in sawdust when they're packaged. When you freeze them and bake them on a cookie sheet, for instance, they have an almost pistachio flavor. Their entire lifecycle is about eating wax and honey, so you'd expect they would taste good just from that-and indeed they do. They lay these eggs that then hatch into these caterpillars that eat the wax and the honey.
When people are doing beekeeping, and they take those frames out of the beehive and left them off to the side, all of a sudden these moths get on it. What the moth does is it lays its eggs on the honeycomb of a beehive. How should we eat waxworms? David George Gordon: They're actually not worms at all-they're the caterpillars of a little moth.
So, we've gone from eight-legged creatures to ones with no legs-or at least stubbly little ones. For the final installment of our Cooking with Bugs series-having already covered cooking crickets and grasshoppers, scorpions, tarantulas, and ants-we ask Gordon what to do with waxworms.
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