Time to eat worms

[Good Bacteria]

I am ready! I am ready, I have been adjusting my palate for new protein sources and looking at things just in time.

I hear ya. While you're enjoying your Goliath beetle larva, I'll be happily dining on my neighbors (Hannibal Lecter style), and their pets (Korean style).

Bon appetit!

[Sirius]

I hear ya. While you're enjoying your Goliath beetle larva, I'll be happily dining on my neighbors (Hannibal Lecter style), and their pets (Korean style).

Bon appetit!

With what's in our food these days I wouldn't. There are healthier options.

[chivo]

The survival guys pull the head off and eat the rest. Those pinchers hurt. Supposed to taste like almonds. I find them all the time in dead wood I'm splitting for firewood or in the ground when I'm turning the soil. They are fat and juicy looking, I've been tempted on occasion to try one.

This is the a answer. That back end which is darker is the actual beetle, so the what you are seeing is the larvae stage of a beetle (a type of common beetle, don't remember the name).
LIke the swamp buck said, they can be huge and juicy. Here I find them underground when I till soil for crops. Chickens are mad about it, dogs love it, but we never got the balls to try it really, I could do it but in real survival situation and let me tell you, have to be in a really bad place in your life if your last resort for food are larvae... We call it "shrimps" as a short for "earth shrimps" hahaha

[Good Bacteria]

With what's in our food these days I wouldn't. There are healthier options.

I don't plan on going out much and will mostly just do my "shopping" locally. Lol
I know what my neighbors eat because we share food and BBQs all the time. Their pets are better fed than their kids lol.

[Ravenwatcher]

I am ready! I am ready, I have been adjusting my palate for new protein sources and looking at things just in time. I have no idea what is going on with food anymore.

So for grubs and worms what you need to do is mulch. Just a thin layer of wood chips, not bark if possible and keep things moist. The worms will come. You can introduce patches of green leaves (from fruit trees work best), it will attract beetles and you will have many many grubs. Once things get going you can cover the soil with a thin layer of bark and top it up with fresh greens now and then.

Lizards you can attract with seed bugs, just leave a bunch of grass seeds near your compost pile. A colony of seed bugs will spring up in no time, these will bring the lizards. You need to leave the lizards for a season so they produce many young for light snacks. Nice autumn treats.

I've eaten Earth worms before but not sure I would trust it any more anything that eats or comes from the dirt I would assume is full of pesticides. Even the fish from most ponds and rivers I do not trust anymore - Getting pretty sad

[Sirius]

I've eaten Earth worms before but not sure I would trust it any more anything that eats or comes from the dirt I would assume is full of pesticides. Even the fish from most ponds and rivers I do not trust anymore - Getting pretty sad

My garden is 100% natural. Some folk create little terrariums and such with self sustaining ecologies, others like me just use the land..I have other issues like fruit trees growing in winter. My apple tree laughs at aphids. it's a machine that grows faster than the aphids can keep up with (why they are attacking in the first place). Pruned it three times in the last year. I still want to make some posts on "terra prata" and how to look after soil...this thread already touches on it. Mother Earth, Gaia, mothers give birth, fertility..who is  the father?

[rickymouse]

I have eaten earthworms already, I even helped clean them with a few friends I used to have.  It isn't that hard to prep them to use.   Just cut them near the lump on both sides and squeeze the guts out of them then rince them while squeezing again to clean the inside out. 

The way she prepared them was like noodles and I am thinking she probably boiled them like noodles after they were cleaned.  With the spaghetti sauce, they did not taste bad at all.  Not much like noodles though, they had a different flavor but were not rubbery like I thought they would be....I did not take seconds though, kind of got problems with tomatoes so I  try not to take seconds on spaghetti or Lasagna....unless it is real good, which means it is worth the discomfort and hives like breakout.  So, they definitely were not worth the tomato problem.

[chivo]

My garden is 100% natural. Some folk create little terrariums and such with self sustaining ecologies, others like me just use the land..I have other issues like fruit trees growing in winter. My apple tree laughs at aphids. it's a machine that grows faster than the aphids can keep up with (why they are attacking in the first place). Pruned it three times in the last year. I still want to make some posts on "terra prata" and how to look after soil...this thread already touches on it. Mother Earth, Gaia, mothers give birth, fertility..who is  the father?

Rudra?