Some mushrooms like Armillariella mellea (honey mushroom). Traditionally, the Inuit eat caribou warble fly larvae (Hypoderma tarandi)
Cheers - Peter. ------------------------------------------------------- Peter M. Kotanen Associate Professor Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto at Mississauga 3359 Mississauga Road Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6 CANADA tel: 905-828-5365; fax: 905-828-3792 skype: peter.kotanen e-mail: [email protected] http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3pkota/ -------------------------------------------------------- On 01-05-2014, at 12:08 , David Inouye wrote: > At a dinner conversation with Carl Zimmer (author of Parasite Rex, etc.) the > question came up of whether there are any parasites regularly consumed as > food (not unintentionally with your food). I came up with one animal (pea > crab) and one fungus (huitlacoche; corn smut). Do you know of others? > > David Inouye
