There are some farmers however who manage fenced in browsers who view the worms with concern as competitors for the mopane tree leaves. |
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Kruger spreads over nearly 20,000 sq km of unspoilt scrubland punctuated by acacia and mopane trees. |
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At midday, you can join the bugs for lunch, and sink your teeth into braaied mopane worms, grasshoppers dipped in chocolate, or spicy termites. |
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By daybreak, the elephants were gone, and in their place came a troupe of perhaps 60 baboons, some descending from the mopane trees to lift anything moveable. |
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The land climbs from the hot parklands of these two river valleys up through small farming areas to a central plateau of msasa and mopane savanna woodland. |
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Specialists said the caterpillars are likely to be mopane worms, the larvae of emperor moths, which are commonly eaten in Africa. |
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Modification of methods of preparation was done on samples collected from the mopane trees in areas where these occur in large quantities. |
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For example, in South Africa mopane worms are eaten by the bushmen, and in China silkworms are considered a delicacy. |
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I ate the staple corn paste sadza every day and tasted fried mopane worms. |
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There are 13 black rhino living among the silver-edged mopane trees. |
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The participating lodges are Damara Mopane Lodge, Etosha Safari Lodge and Etosha Safari Camp. |
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