[week 71]

I'm quite certain the insect eaters will be having them in all their buffets. Last time they emerged in my state the noise was deafening at night.

[jeffc]

We made it past 1803. I assume we’ll get by this time, too.

[Melinda in TN]

Are these what we call Jar Flies that drive us nuts in late summer every year or are they a different noisy insect?

[Hot Tabasco]

Here's a recipe:

Clean the cicadas, put them in a bowl of salt water overnight. Rinse again, drain, remove legs and wings and the outer body, the parts that the cicadas are going to discard when they get ready to hide for the next 17 years. At this stage they look like really tiny shrimp.

Put them in a big bowl, add a splash of cream sherry or Chinese wine, a chopped scallion or green onion, a tsp of minced ginger root, a tsp of Chinese huajiao prickly ash buds or American black peppercorns. Marinate for 10 or 15 minutes. Drain when ready to stir-fry them.

Get your wok or pan hot, add cicadas and a liberal splash of cooking oil, stir-fry until crispy. Add a splash or two of soy sauce, stir-fry until the soy sauce is mostly gone, remove the cicadas to a serving bowl, sprinkle liberally with salt and maybe some ground black pepper. Or add a little minced hot pepper and a little minced or crushed garlic, just before removing them from the heat of frying.

[ComputerGuy]

Not only are they nosey, they are noisy. What a racket!

[Antihero101607]

Wasn’t something like this with cicadas supposed to happen about three or four years ago?

[Fish Speaker]

Actually, the two broods only overlap in Illinois. Most places have annual cicadas, which are different species than the 13 and 17-year broods.

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

I recall 1959 or 1960 event at grandparent’s in Nashville, very loud but my fears were allayed when my father said they do not bite. No damage to trees or shrubs but I like Mayfly hatches better, great for fishing! Oh, no here comes an insurance waiver for these insects.

[Ex-Con777]

Fire up the climate change brigade over another highly predicable event.

EC

[Baldwin77]

I live in Tennessee, shall I wear a mask.

[maddog55]

I’m close to Tennessee and my daughter lives there..45 minutes away. I’m good noise wise I’ll just take out my hearing aids.

[metmom]

Hopefully this cold snap will help take care of some of it.

[Dan in Wichita]

The Democrats and their propagandist media will explain this phenomenon as a result of "Climate Change."

They will blame capitalism and Republicans for the bugs everywhere, annoying everyone and causing damage.

Vote Democrat! will be the overriding theme of their reporting, just watch.

[JudyinCanada]

Wow. I wouldn’t want all those bugs asking me a lot of questions.

[Recompennation]

Makes sense 13 and 17 prime numbers make 221 to repeat. 2024 less 221 is 1803

[moovova]

Throw in the tree frogs and you have a symphony.

[MayflowerMadam]

If they take out trees maybe we’ll lose some skiing the shore of the river. TVA won’t let us do it so maybe God will take care of it.

[deport]

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[ChessExpert]

Global warming or climate change?

[bert]

As a point of fact, birds do not eat the insects. Twice we have had hatches of uncountable thousands in our yard. The resident birds do not eat them.

We did have a very large turn out of Cedar Wax Wings that took up residence in our yard and trees. This species gobbled up the ubiquitous locusts.

[who knows what evil?]

Do they eat progressive tourists?