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A subsection of Ghost Moth then?[edit]

A subsection of Ghost Moth then? --Wetman 00:19, 27 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

taste[edit]

They taste like peanut butter or srambled eggs with a chicken tasting skin. --Commking 2 November, 2005 they taste horribly bland and are not consumed in australia anymore due to instinction thanks to the aboriginals —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.177.31.18 (talk) 07:07, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They are not extinct - or "instinct" either.203.184.41.226 (talk) 00:13, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Leaks?[edit]

"Once caught the grubs leak a brown water juice over fingers when held". Apart from the poor grammar, what does this mean? Does the grub defecate or actually "leak"?203.184.41.226 (talk) 00:14, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Killing wattles[edit]

Wattle trees are short lived. That is known in the literature, and I have found it from experience - in New Zealand, where we do not have Witchetty grubs. The trees short life spans have nothing to do with Witchetty grubs. Furthermore the sentence "and are attributed as the reason why wattles die within 10 to 15 years" is appalling English. I suggest its deletion.Royalcourtier (talk) 18:32, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

scientific classification[edit]

This article is about a common name for the 'grub phase' of an organism, and has strayed into inclusion of anything within some loose definition of 'edible grubs now used for bait'. I removed the scientific classification box as a start to improving the article (or disambiguation page). — cygnis insignis 14:50, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

These larvae may also be called bardi grubs (also spelled bardy grubs), especially when they are being considered as bait by freshwater fishermen. The term bardi grub appears to have originally been used for larvae of the longhorn beetle Bardistus cibarius, but fishermen along the Murray River more often apply the term to the hepialid moth larvae of Trictena^[1] and Abantiades.^[2]

References

This is not supported by the citations, true or not; the word bardi is a term in the Southwest for the grub phase of Bardistus cibarius. cygnis insignis 15:33, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And the "obviously true but not supported by the citations so we can't say it" is one of the biggest failings of Wikipedia, because it's just fucking stupid sometimes. Consider: "The Arabana term for the grub is mako witjuti" ... then ... "It has been suggested that the word 'witchetty' comes from Adynyamathanha wityu, 'hooked stick', and vartu, 'grub'". Great. So we know that one of the tribal languages that named it call it "witjuti", but since nobody with a degree bothered to point out that blatantly fucking obvious point we can't say that's the origin of the name, despite 'duh'. Instead, we have to cite this other person who came up with some BS about a stick who obviously had no clue what they were talking about, but they bullshitted with great authority. The sky is usually blue in the day ^{[citation needed]}. Fucking Wikipedia. 67.168.228.147 (talk) 11:24, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The {{Paraphyletic group}} box was added in response to a {{infobox requested}}. --Nessie (talk) 15:51, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the information, I didn't check to see how it got there. Why have you requested that one be added? cygnis insignis 16:37, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Size[edit]

Can anyone add in information as to their size, please? Thanks! -Wwallacee (talk) 19:50, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "CSIRO - bardi grub".

[2] "CSIRO - bardi grub".

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