Is it true that insects can "make" cheese?
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In the world, several types of cheese are made with the help of insects. These are French-Belgian mimolette and German milbenkise, made with cheese mites. Ticks gnaw passages in cheese and influence the maturation and taste of cheese with the products of their vital activity. But all the "coolest" cheese produced in Sardinia is "casu marzu". Kasu marzu is translated as "rotten cheese", but more often, in colloquial speech, it is called wormy cheese.
And this is not an allegory, in the process of cheese maturation, larvae of the cheese fly, worms up to 8 mm long, take an active part. Moreover, casu marzu is traditionally eaten with live larvae.
A Sardinian folk omen says that if the worms move, then the cheese has not gone bad.
