ambrosia beetle

The rhino beetle—fried, stewed, grilled, or roasted—is high in calcium and protein.

Her feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.

But strangest of all the dishes at the Tagal's feast was one prepared from a kind of beetle.

Then the juice would fill up the hole the beetle had made, and the tree would go on growing as before.

The gods themselves were fed on nectar and ambrosia, that they might not die like ordinary mortals.

This was long before the days of Dunbar's pollantin, Holbrook Curtis' ambrosia, adrenalin, and the modern vaccines.