虫茶，呈黑褐色，颗粒状，像油菜籽般细小。品饮时，先在无色透明的玻璃杯内倒上开水，然后投入十多粒虫茶。一般来说， 500克虫茶能供五口之家饮用一年以上。初时，只见茶粒飘于水面，继而徐徐释放出一根根绵绵血丝盘旋在水中，犹如晨烟雾霭，袅袅娜娜，婉蜒起伏，散落水中，然后如 飞絮般缓缓地散落到杯底。虫茶汁水呈淡古铜色，甘醇爽口，香气清郁宜人，颇似高档绿茶。
    虫茶的营养价值高于普通茶叶。它含有十八九种人体必需的氨基酸，相当量的粗蛋白、粗脂肪、糖类、单宁、维生素等营养成分和微量元素。 清代光绪年间的《城步乡土志》记载：茶有八峒茶......亦有茶虽粗恶，置之旧笼一二或数，茶悉化为虫，余名曰虫茶。茶收贮经久，下能消痰顺气。因此它是一种很好的医药保健速溶饮料。经常饮用虫茶，能止渴提神、 降血压、促消化、利尿、顺气化痰、解毒消肿，对鼻出血、牙龈出血、痔出血、腹泻等病均有一定疗效。据说从清代乾隆年间起，虫茶就被视为珍品，每年定期向朝廷进贡。如今，虫茶已闻名海内外。
    相传，清朝乾隆年间，城步亩民起义，朝廷出兵镇压，百姓们被赶进深山老林，以野莱、茶叶充饥。谁知，屋漏偏遇连雨天，茶叶遭到虫害，被吃得净光， 只剩下了漫山遍野的虫屎渣滓。人们偶然发现，虫屎落入水中，泡出缕缕血丝般的茶叶，试着一喝，味道香郁甘美。后来人们索性就有意以化香树叶诱蛾产卵，专取幼虫粪便熬茶， 这就是现在饮用的虫茶。这一偶而所为，使虫茶走出大森林，来到人间。
    虫茶的制作方法不同一般茶叶。每年谷雨前后，当地老百姓就上山，把野生的化香树、三叶海棠、大白解的树叶采集下来，混杂一些苦茶的叶子，放在竹 篓或木桶里面，洒上淘米水发酵，即可引来许多极小的黑虫子主要是化香夜蛾和米黑虫来取食、产卵。当这些虫子吃完了植物叶片，便排出许多细小如珠的粪粒，当地人取名叫 虫珠。人们随后用筛子把杂渣去掉，利用阳光晒干，即为虫茶。更为考究的是，在阳光下曝晒后，还要在180摄氏度的铁锅里炒上20分钟，再加上93克蜂蜜、93克茶叶，虫茶才得以制成。
   生产虫茶的昆虫很多，而以化香夜蛾分布最广。此虫属鳞翅目，夜峨科，分布在海拔500一1000米的山地，喜食腐熟的化香树叶。

Worm tea, a dark brown, granulated, such as rapeseed as small. Commodities drink, the first in the clear, colorless glass, inverted on the water, and then invested more than 10 tablets of insects tea. In general, 500 grams of tea to insects for five homes to drink more than one year. At first, and saw the tea tablets floating in the water, then slowly release, followed by a root Blood-streaked phlegm circled in the water, like a morning cigarette Wuai, Niaoniao Nana, Wan Yan ups and downs, scattered over the water, then slowly, as if Feixu scattered to the Cup At the end. Worm tea water Chengdan bronze, diethylene glycol refreshing aroma-Yu Yi, Posi high-grade green tea.
     Worm tea nutritional value than the ordinary tea. It contains essential Shiba Jiu kinds of amino acids, a quantity of crude protein, fat, sugar, tannin, vitamins and other nutrients and trace elements. Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty in the "City native-step" record: eight Tong Mountain Tea tea tea ...... although some rough evil, and the old home on January 2 or cage, took note of tea into insects, worms over名曰Tea. Tea Shouzhu perishable, the next-to Xiaotan gas. Therefore it is a good medical health of instant beverages. Regular pest drinking tea can Zhike refreshing, reducing blood pressure, promoting digestion, diuretic, with gas Huatan, detoxification swelling, nose bleeding, bleeding gums, bleeding hemorrhoids, diarrhea and other diseases have a certain effect. It is said that from the Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong years, the insects were regarded as treasures of tea annually to the regular court Jingong. Today, the insects have been known for tea at home and abroad.
     Legend has it, Emperor Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the city step acres uprising, the government sent troops to suppress, the people have been forced out into the mountains Laolin to wild Levin, tea fill their stomachs.谁知, housing partial leak case even on rainy days, tea was pests, was eating Jingguang, only the Manshanbianye the insect feces waste. People occasionally found that insect feces falling into the water and foam to Lvlv Blood-streaked phlegm like tea, try a drink, taste Xiangyu Commissioner. Later, people simply on the potential of Hong Kong to lure moths lay eggs leaves, the larvae from faeces boil tea, which is now the insects to drink tea. This occasionally by, the worm tea out of the forest, came to the world.
     Worm tea production methods different from ordinary tea. Guyu before and after a year, the local people on the mountains, the wild of incense trees, clover Begonia, revealed acquisition of the leaves down, mixed some Kucha leaves on the inside Zhulou or cask, Sashang Taomi Shui fermentation Can lead to many small black insect mainly of black-armyworm pest and rice to feed, lay eggs. When the insect eating the plant leaves, they emit as many small beads of fecal tablets, the locals take the name of pest-. People then use sieve to remove the miscellaneous Java, using the sun dried, is the worm tea. More sophisticated is that under the sun exposure, but also in the Tieguo 180 degrees in 20 minutes on the speculation, coupled with 93 grams of honey, 93 grams of tea, tea only to be made from insects.
    Production of many insect pest of tea, and incense to the armyworm most widely distributed. This is a pest Lepidoptera, the night Mindanao Bureau, at an altitude of 500 of a 1,000 m mountain, the preference of the maturity of Hong Kong leaves.