One person’s pest may be another person’s repast. The trillions of cicadas that will blanket wooded areas of central Illinois later this month are not only edible, but the insects are high in protein and low in fat. But what do they taste like? What is the best way to cook them? What wine pairs […]
By Will Dunham (Reuters) – Cicadas, the noisy but rather tame insects that spend most of their lives underground, are poised to put on quite a show starting this month in a wide swath of the United States. Two sizable adjacent broods of periodical cicadas – the kind that spend a specific number of years […]
If you live in one of the lucky (or should we say unlucky?) states, this spring is bringing a once-in-a-lifetime event just outside your window. Starting in mid-May, 16 states in the South and Midwest will experience the emerging of two different cicada groups simultaneously, something that hasn’t happened in 221 years and won’t again […]
More than a dozen states across the U.S. are set for a once-in-a-lifetime experience this spring, though it’s one most people would probably prefer to do without. This year, 16 states across parts of the South and the Midwest will see the emergence of two different cicada groups in tandem, a crossover that hasn’t happened […]
Nearly every year, one of 15 cicada broods emerges in U.S. But in 2024, we’re getting two—Brood XIII and Brood XIX. The last time two broods emerged at the same time was back in 2015, and the last time these two specific broods emerged together was way back in 1803. The next time two broods […]