Yellow grub becomes EU's first insect food

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yellow grub becomes eus first insect food Daily Current Affairs Article 15th January 2021: Mealworms may soon find their way into Europe's pasta bowls and dinner dishes, after becoming the first insect approved in the region as a human food.

Mealworms are the larval form of the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor, a species of darkling beetle. Despite their name, mealworms are beetle larvae rather than worms.

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Like all holometabolic insects, they go through four life stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.

Larvae typically measure about 2.5 cm or more, whereas adults are generally between 1.25 and 1.8 cm in length.

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