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Kōrero: Insects – overview

Eating huhu grubs

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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

by John McCombe

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George Gibbs, Insects – overview – In the bush, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/10076/eating-huhu-grubs (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā George Gibbs, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.