Posted on 04/05/2024 6:47:52 PM PDT by dynachrome
Trillions of cicadas will emerge across several U.S. states this spring in an event one expert dubbed "cicada-geddon." Not only are more cicadas than usual expected this year, but some of them will be "zombie cicadas" that are infected by a sexually transmitted fungus that makes them hyper-sexual.
Periodical cicadas spend most of their lives underground and only emerge after 13 or 17 years. This year, two broods of cicadas will emerge: Brood XIX, which comes out every 13 years, will emerge in the Georgia and Southeast, and Brood XIII, which emerges every 17 years, will appear in Illinois.
With this convergence, the bugs will arrive in numbers that have not been seen in generations.
Matthew Kasson, an associate professor of Mycology and Forest Pathology at West Virginia University, says both of these broods can be infected by a fungal pathogen called Massospora cicadina.
Once the cicadas emerge from the ground, they molt into adults, and within a week to 10 days, the fungus causes the backside of their abdomens open up. A chalky, white plug erupts out, taking over their bodies and making their genitals fall off.
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“Kasson urges people not to eat the cicadas or kill them, but to take photos if they see the fugus on the bugs and share them with online science communities, like iNaturalist, to help researchers. “
I’ll get right on it.
Wow. I need to quit having sex with Zombies AND Cicadas.
Sure hope Fauci/Pfizer don’t get any ideas.
Don’t eat the cicadas? But, but....
We are told to eat the bugs.
“Zombie Cicadas” would be a good name for a rock band.
“the fungus causes the backside of their abdomens open up. A chalky, white plug erupts out, taking over their bodies and making their genitals fall off.”
That’s bad, right?
Yeah, the Apoc-eclipse on the 8th, the “Red Heifers” @ Passover, and now bugs! Oh my!!
Sounds like the spring break of the insect world.
Global, climate, warming crisis, of course.
We must lockdown until they are gone.
DESHAYES: You know, I don’t eat insect. It’s not something that I eat every day. So two weeks ago, I start to harvest them. And I say, OK, what you will be the good safety to eat them? So I blanched them on the boiling water for five minutes. And after that, I laid them on the sheet pan. And I roast them for 2 1/2 to three hours at 200 degrees.
MARTIN: Oh.
DESHAYES: So what I end up having is a very dry cicada. They look like a little snack.
MARTIN: Yeah.
DESHAYES: And with that, I made a powder, crushed them. And for one of the recipes that I did a couple days ago, I crust a flank steak for barbecue.
Will my chickens turn white after eating them?
Yeah, especially if they have a hit every 13 or 17 years. ;)
Trans cicadas!
Still annoying, though.
“A chalky, white plug erupts out, taking over their bodies and making their genitals fall off.”
I’m hoping they can’t transmit this to humans!
Maybe ‘der Führer und Reichskanzler’ K(louse) Squab might like to try said cicadas, just to show us how the self styled ‘elites’ will like us plebs. I am not holding my breath for such an event.
FJT
FKS
FWEF
OH PHPUCH! that’s what the future of cicadakind is depending on.
Eating Cicadas can make you vibrate with extreme intensity.
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