Gardulla the Hutt fancied mora beetles and was known to keep them in cages in her palace dungeons near the Dune Sea on Tatooine. She retained a Kubaz gourmet chef from Kubindi who specialized in cooking insects that were bred for size and tastiness. The —as part of a scientific process the Kubaz called insecticulture—were fed chemicals and injected with growth hormones to cause them to unnaturally mutate and increase in size to their gigantic forms.