Toxic moths: Source of a truly safe delicacy

Journal of Ethnobiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 64-76

  Zagrobelny, Mika ^a   Dreon, Angelo Leandro ^b   Gomiero, Tiziano ^b   Marcazzan, Gian Luigi ^c   Glaring, Mikkel Andreas ^a   Møller, Birger Lindberg ^a   Paoletti, Maurizio G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c CRA Reserch Unit of Apiculture and Sericulture   (Italy)

Author keywords

cyanogenic glucosides; Edible insects; Syntomis; Zygaena

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 77954308190     PISSN: 02780771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-29.1.64     Document Type: Article

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