The cicadas are at it again. I am creeped out by bugs but I like hearing them. I will not like having to clean up the carcasses in a few weeks.
Is it loud where you are? Do you have to walk on them to get to your car?
A young howlette was very upset that her grandfather stepped on one. He denied doing the awful deed. There aren’t that many here.
Enjoy or …skip.
Not a single one of these guys up here in the Vienna area. I am completely disappointed. It seems like the boundary line for this brood was somewhere around Springfield. I may have to come down and set a spell in someone’s yard in PWC in order to savour the experience.
I strongly recommend Elena’s house. It is VERY loud over there. She also has some powerfully loud bull frogs too.
I have mixed feelings about the Cicada’s. Got a ton of them at Casa del Thomas, and their still emerging. The Cicada opera is growing on me. Don’t really mind having to knock the spent bug-casings off every vertical surface outside, and the live ones don’t bother my vegetables. They really aren’t “offensive” bugs, as are stink-bugs (attack my squash every year) Gypsy Moth catepillers (munch everything), Hornworms (eat my tomato plants). The only time Cicadas annoy me is when I am riding my bike. Even then, they just bounce off, except for the occasional one that gets sucked into the old air-intake.
Which brings me to something I experienced yesterday, while on a bike ride: Cicadas DO taste like shrimp, if you are unlucky enough to bite one that bumbles into your mouth.
@Steve Thomas
Hear a recipe on NPR using Sriracha Sauce and brown sugar–mix the two, pull wings and legs off Cicadas, coat with the sauce and roast for about 30 minutes at some thing like 350F. Supposed to be sweet, spicy, and crunchy! Almost pure protein!
P.S. You can always tell a happy biker by the bugs on their teeth!
Maybe I’ll try it with bangbang sauce…”Cicada Bangbang”…yeah…that’s the ticket.