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Any of y'all eaten a cicada yet?

 

Nope and I don't plan on it. However, they are great fishing baits

 

Hadn't thought of that, but makes total sense.

 

No but I've had 2 stink bugs that got in my drink on my ice
Worst insect ever

 

My dog eats about 10 a day.

 

I still haven’t even seen one

 

Does he get sick? Last time they came out our Westie ate a ton and threw up a lot.

 

Nope. She's a beagle. More than a few people around here will eat them as well, though I wouldn't (and try to keep my dog from doing so) because of potential pesticide contamination.

 

There are none here in Anderson County, yet I go into work and they are deafening.

 

Can hear them at home from what seems like varying distances but not too close.

 

They’re all over the GD place at my house, about a half mile west from Northshore and Pellissippi.

1. Loud as shit and the noise changes as the day goes on too. That part is quite fascinating honestly.

2. They move. Sometimes it’s all day we hear them. Sometimes it’s loud when I leave in the morning and quiet in the evening.

3. As soon as the rain stopped today they fired right up.

4. I won’t be eating them.

 

There are mounds of their shells piled up around the oak tree in my back yard. We have the full Brood X experience up here, just tons and tons, they keep coming up in waves. My back yard looks like swiss cheese from the holes. We have all 3 species, I've seen the genital-melting fungus, I pick up all the live ones off the deck and front porch before my wife sweeps off all the corpses and bits of dead ones each day. The sound of them singing is a roar when it is hot. I like them, but most people hate them around here because there are so so many.

 

There is a constant traffic jam of cicadas climbing up the oak tree, as well. Just a long line of orgy goers trying to get into tree top party. They suck at flying, but we have noticed the later emerging ones seem to be a bit better in that department. They actually can go from porch to tree or tree to tree without crashing or missing.

 

I can't ... even imagine a scenario in which I thought about, and then did, eat a cicada. Even if the world was burning, I'd find something to cook over the fire.

 

I am told they are reminiscent of shrimp, if they are freshly molted. Some people do cook them a little.

 

Really? Wow. Because you know what is like shrimp? Shrimp.

If I'm looking for shrimp flavor... I look no further than shrimp.

 

When is it going to be over?

 

I've always hated people that eat off the wall shit and claim "it tastes like chicken". Then eat chicken, ya crazy bastard.

 

My dog doesn't have tens of thousands of shrimp [uck fay]ing each other all over the side walk, so she settles.

 

I have no qualm with any animal that wants to eat cicadas. Especially if they taste like something they like, and are available. But if your dog makes the argument that they taste like shrimp, I'll make the argument to the dog to just go get shrimp. If it is capable of telling me how they taste, I imagine it's capable of heading to Whole Foods, and lining up at the seafood counter.

Just like the other animal that told me they taste like shrimp.