Mating takes place at night in early August after which the female lays a cluster of about 80-130 eggs near the base of a bamboo shoot.

After entering the shoot, they then, also in one day, bore an exit hole for the mature moths from which to eventually emerge.

In northern Thailand, O. fuscidentalis infestations have been found in Dendrocalamus membranaceus, D. hamiltonii, D. strictus, Bambusa nutans, B. blumeana, Gigantochloa albociliata, and G. nigrociliata.

This involves carefully piercing through sections of the bamboo shoots with a cleaver where water is trapped.

Together with other types of insects, the consumption of bamboo worms is gaining popularity in Asian regions.

Now, because of the greater demand for bamboo worms as food, they are being commercially bred and cultivated by insect farmers to ensure that their population in the wild is not affected.