Then there is hachi-no-ko, literally children of bees, the larvae of the o-suzume-bachi, or great sparrow bee (actually a wasp, but no distinction is made between the two, the largest in the world). The larvae are fried or cooked with rice. Eating the delicacy is not a problem, unless you are squeamish. But hunters risk life and limb to get the raw ingredients – because one sting can be fatal. The hunters first catch a foraging wasp in the mountainous regions with a morsel of meat. They then carefully tie white raffia around its body.