Sl. no. | Scientific name | Order: family | Habitat | Season availability | Stages, product, mode of consumption and processing |
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1 | Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 | Hymenoptera: Apidae | Under the soil or in hollow wood | Monsoon and winter | Food: larva, pupa: fried |
Therapy: honey: coughs, sore throats, and mouth ulcers; raw insect juice: cure mouth ulcers | |||||
2 | Apis dorsata Fabricius, 1793 | Hymenoptera: Apidae | Rocky cliffs | Monsoon | Food: larva, pupa: fried |
Therapy: honey: coughs, sore throats, and mouth ulcers | |||||
3 | Darthula hardwickii Gray, 1832 | Hemiptera: Aetalionidae | Tree trunks (various tree species) | Spring | Food: adult, nymph: frying after discarding wings |
Therapy: jaundice: drink the decoction of the crushed roasted insect | |||||
4 | Unidentified sp. (Longhorn beetles) | Coleoptera: Cerambycidae | Trunk and branches of Albizia sp | Autumn | Food: larva, pupa: fried or the larvae are boiled in a small amount of water by adding ginger, garlic, and salt preferably with chilly, and cooked until the water evaporates |
Therapy: larva: cough: make soup by adding salt, ginger, and garlic | |||||
5 | Notobitus species | Hemiptera: Coreidae | Various plants | Â | Food: adult: fried |
Therapy: adult: cough | |||||
6 | Tipula species | Diptera: Tipulidae | Aquatic and terrestrial | Summer | Food: larva: fried |
Therapy: larva: speed up the healing process after surgery and to relieve body aches: soup or the cooked larva is served for quick recovery | |||||
7 | Rhynchophorus species | Coleoptera: Curculionidae | Phoenix species | Monsoon | Food: larva: fried |
Therapy: larva: cough: soup of the larva by adding ginger, garlic and salt | |||||
8 | Vespa soror du Buysson, 1905 | Hymenoptera: Vespidae | Soil (underground) | Autumn | Food: larva, pupa: cooking or fried |
Therapy: improves eyesight, strengthens the body | |||||
9 | Unidentified sp. (Pink Oak borer) | Lepidoptera | Trunk or branches of Quercus species | Autumn | Food: larva, pupa: cooking or fried |
Therapy: body ache and cough: soup of the larvae |