Billions of cicadas will emerge in the U.S. this year in a rare double-brood event...This year's dual emergence is a rare, synchronized event that last occurred in 1803.

NBC News ^ | Jan. 20, 2024, 8:00 AM CST | Denise Chow

[Red Badger]

https://www.epa.gov/safepestcontrol/cicadas

[BradyLS]

You watch: if someone figures out how to make cicades genuinely edible and tasty, no one will be able to collect or breed them. The state will make them the State’s Cicadas and you’ll need special permits to even touch the things. Heaven help you if you want to build on land some apparatchik says a cycle emerges from.

[Red Badger]

https://www.montclair.edu/newscenter/2021/05/19/cicadas-safe-to-eat-sustainable-delicious-recipes/

[BradyLS]

Enjoy your free-range cicadas now! One day, folks will only be able to buy processed cicada meal from WEF-approved producers and Karens will narc on anyone collecting them in the wild! 🤣

[beethovenfan]

If they take a good look around they’ll go underground again.

[dfwgator]

I remember there was a Reds game years ago at Riverfront Stadium and the cicadas were wreaking havoc there.

[refermech]

Yup, good old tinnitus. I’m in the same boat. These bugs won’t bother me in the least!

[Dogbert41]

Pickle enough of them to last the seven years of famine ahead.

[TalBlack]

Are these those scary looking red-eyed ones. Saw them on Staten Island one year. Damn! Straight out of a horror film.

[Red Badger]

Yes, depends on species though.....

[NavyShoe]

They are edible although I would pass on it. Dogs love them.

[Bikkuri]

Revelations

[Bikkuri]

"When I was little, people referred to the cicadas as locusts."

Same in Texas when I was young.

[calljack]

so, wheres the money to be made here?

[ansel12]

Locusts are still what people call them, I have never heard a person choose the word cicada when just talking and not referencing a news report or article.

[calljack]

They do say it is a good resource for animal feed

[Noumenon]

How about a vanilla cicada milkshake?

[Red Badger]

People will buy anything on a stick with lots of garlic...................

[bobcat62]

After the bugs have voted Democrat.

[hellinahandcart]

I never thought about collecting them, but they were on every bush and tree branch.

I’d wear gloves, because the disgusting things pee all the time.