Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto: > ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU] On Behalf Of Iulian Gherghel > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 12:19 PM > To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites? > > I heard that some people eat the "small

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In Peru we eat a larvae named Suri. it's the grub or larvae of the palm weevil Rhynchoporus palmarum. people will fry them. eat them raw or harvest their fat to drink (some say it's medicinal...) Bruno Ghersi 2014-05-01 17:45 GMT-05:00 Ruth McDowell : > A friend who worked closely with Inuit

Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

A friend who worked closely with Inuit hunters in the Arctic told me that they eat botfly larvae from under the skin of caribou they have killed. Ruth On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Judith S. Weis wrote: > I've never heard of pea crabs being consumed on purpose. It's usually when > you pop a

Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

o:ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU] On Behalf Of Iulian Gherghel Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 12:19 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites? I heard that some people eat the "small livers" inside of the deer liver (probably the cyst of some parasitic worm...)... Iulian ᐧ

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I eat pea crabs on purpose! If there are enough of them when I'm opening oysters for a feed I'll save them and saute them in butter but sometimes just pop them in my mouth. But the oysters have to be really fresh, less than a week after harvesting. I think that I got the idea from Euell Gibbons boo

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Freshwater mussels (Unionoida) parasitic on fish as larvae (glochidia), are eaten in some parts of the world once they're free-living filter feeding adults. They have not commonly been used as food in North America because they're not especially palatable, because many are threatened species, and

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I've never heard of pea crabs being consumed on purpose. It's usually when you pop a mussel in your mouth, get a surprise, and go "pfah" and see the little crab on your plate! > At a dinner conversation with Carl Zimmer (author of Parasite Rex, > etc.) the question came up of whether there are

Re: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

I heard that some people eat the "small livers" inside of the deer liver (probably the cyst of some parasitic worm...)... Iulian ᐧ

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: [ECOLOG-L] edible parasites? I think there is a dish with hagfish somewhere and/or possibly lamprey, I saw it on Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods on the travel channel!!! Hagfish prep: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Hagfish On top of the corn smut, many of the mushrooms that are eate

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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 Univer

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It depends on whether you view plant fungal endophytes as parasites or mutualists - they can be both. I don't know specifically about the endophyte load in crop plants, but if it is like others then we eat them all the time! On 5/1/2014 9:08 AM, David Inouye wrote: At a dinner conversation wit

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I think there is a dish with hagfish somewhere and/or possibly lamprey, I saw it on Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods on the travel channel!!! Hagfish prep: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Hagfish On top of the corn smut, many of the mushrooms that are eaten are actually fungal parasites of tr

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    Lobster mushrooms (Hypomyces lactifluorum) are fungi which parasitize other fungi, typically gilled mushrooms, and they're sometimes considered a delicacy by mushroomers.     I happen to consider this an absolutely bone-stupid thing to do, because the Hypomyces usually smothers the host mu

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In my mycology class, I mentioned examples of parasitic fungi as food and medicine, such as succulent stem of *Zizania latifolia* infected by *Yenia esculenta* (*Ustilago esculenta*); necrotrophic parasites of insect adults, larvae or pupae by caterpillar fungus (*Cordyceps sinensis*), certainly in

[ECOLOG-L] edible parasites?

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