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‘Vibrant’ cross-border trade in mopane worms from Botswana to South Africa

BY SHERE BEGA James Sekonya has spent more than six years studying mopane worms but he has still never tasted the edible caterpillars. Sekonya, of the University of Cape Town’s department of environmental and geographical sciences, is the author of a new study that examines the “lucrative” cross-border trade in mopane worms, the caterpillar phase of the Imbrasia belina moth. Historically, mopane […]

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