Cicadas (3 Viewers)

[superchuck500]

not a joke

Ready to eat your way through the coming cicada explosion? How-to and recipes

Billions of 17-year periodical cicadas are about to emerge across the northeastern U.S., including much of Pennsylvania.

www.google.com

Louisiana Recipe for 'Soft-Shelled Cicadas' Offers Ultimate Louisiana Solution for Upcoming Swarm

In Louisiana, we're constantly finding creative solutions to problems, so why shouldn't we find a solution to the upcoming swarms of billions cicadas?

973thedawg.com

 

[Eeyore]

If an animal were to eat cicadas that are infected with the fungus that makes them gay, would that animal turn gay?

 

[mambodeath]

If an animal were to eat cicadas that are infected with the fungus that makes them gay, would that animal turn gay?

Do it and see what happens

 

[Taurus]

If anyone is interested, I found some recipes

http://www.tullabs.com/cicadaworld/cicadarecipes.pdf

"CICADA-LICIOUS: Cooking and Enjoying Periodical Cicadas"

Created by Jenna Jadin
and the University of Maryland Cicadamaniacs
2004

We're cicadamaniacs!
We love to eat bugs as a snack.
We're freaky to the max
There's a million in our slacks
We're cicadamania
Totally insania
We're cicadamaaaaaniacs!

Those are the facts!

 

[Optimus Prime]

The periodical cicadas that are about to infest two parts of the United States aren’t just plentiful, they’re downright weird.

These insects are the strongest urinators in the animal kingdom with flows that put humans and elephants to shame. They have pumps in their heads that pull moisture from the roots of trees, allowing them to feed for more than a decade underground. They are rescuers of caterpillars.

And they are being ravaged by a sexually transmitted disease that turns them into zombies.

PUMPS IN THE HEAD

Inside trees are sugary, nutrient-heavy saps that flow through tissue called phloem. Most insects love the sap. But not cicadas — they go for tissue called xylem, which carries mostly water and a bit of nutrients.

And it’s not easy to get into the xylem, which doesn’t just flow out when a bug taps into it because it’s under negative pressure. The cicada can get the fluid because its outsized head has a pump, said University of Alabama Huntsville entomologist Carrie Deans.

They use their proboscis like a tiny straw — about the width of a hair — with the pump sucking out the liquid, said Georgia Tech biophysics professor Saad Bhamla. They spend nearly their entire lives drinking, year after year.

“It’s a hard way to make a living,” Deans said.

GOING WITH THE FLOW

All that watery fluid has to come out the other end. And boy does it.

Bhamla in March published a study of the urination flow rates of animals across the world. Cicadas were clearly king, peeing two to three times stronger and faster than elephants and humans. He couldn’t look at the periodical cicadas that mostly feed and pee underground, but he used video to record and measure the flow rate of their Amazon cousins, which topped out around 10 feet per second (3 meters per second).


They have a muscle that pushes the waste through a tiny hole like a jet, Bhamla said. He said he learned this when in the Amazon he happened on a tree the locals called a “weeping tree” because liquid was flowing down, like the plant was crying. It was cicada pee.

“You walk around in a forest where they’re actively chorusing on a hot sunny day. It feels like it’s raining,” said University of Connecticut entomologist John Cooley. That’s their honeydew or waste product coming out the back end ... It’s called cicada rain.”…….

Cicadas are nature's weirdos. They pee stronger than us and an STD can turn them into zombies

The periodical cicadas that are about to infest two parts of the United States aren’t just plentiful, they’re downright weird.

apnews.com

 

[Zztop]

Would you like a cicada salad? The monstrous little noisemakers descend on a New Orleans menu

They may look like little monsters. And their seemingly endless racket may be a nuisance. But as parts of the nation prepare for the emergence of trillions of noisy cicadas, bug experts say the little creatures can also be a tasty snack.

apnews.com

 

[DaveXA]

Would you like a cicada salad? The monstrous little noisemakers descend on a New Orleans menu

They may look like little monsters. And their seemingly endless racket may be a nuisance. But as parts of the nation prepare for the emergence of trillions of noisy cicadas, bug experts say the little creatures can also be a tasty snack.

apnews.com

 

[Nisey55]

Would you like a cicada salad? The monstrous little noisemakers descend on a New Orleans menu

They may look like little monsters. And their seemingly endless racket may be a nuisance. But as parts of the nation prepare for the emergence of trillions of noisy cicadas, bug experts say the little creatures can also be a tasty snack.

apnews.com

Me: Yes, I'll have the cicada salad; cicadas on the side

Waiter: Did you mean to say dressing on the side?

Me: No, the cicadas, I want to throw them in the chefs' face

 

[Zztop]

Can You Eat Cicadas?

Here’s how to catch, clean, and cook cicadas.

time.com

 

[Eeyore]

After all of these years I am still, somehow surprised by how stupid people are.

Cicadas are so noisy in a South Carolina county that residents are calling the police

Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar.

apnews.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

After all of these years I am still, somehow surprised by how stupid people are.

Cicadas are so noisy in a South Carolina county that residents are calling the police

Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar.

apnews.com

Was just coming to post this

 

[Optimus Prime]

‘Be in awe’: everything you need to know about the US cicada-geddon

The emergence of trillions of cicadas is under way in parts of the US – what should you do when they’re around, and what on earth are ‘zombie’ cicadas?

www.theguardian.com

 

[whiteshadowen]

Great! Starting my AT Thru Hike this week . Besides the expected noise, now I have to worry about waking up in the middle of the night to a zombie cicadia dry-humping my leg!

 

[CajunInVA]

Great! Starting my AT Thru Hike this week . Besides the expected noise, now I have to worry about waking up in the middle of the night to a zombie cicadia dry-humping my leg!

Going for the full ~2,170 miles in one shot? How long are you expecting it to take? I'm hoping that at some point in my life I can try to complete it by doing sections annually.

Good luck and happy trekking.

 

[whiteshadowen]

Going for the full ~2,170 miles in one shot? How long are you expecting it to take? I'm hoping that at some point in my life I can try to complete it by doing sections annually.

Good luck and happy trekking.

Full. Doing a flip-flop. Start at Harper’s Ferry, WV and go north to Mt Katahdin in Maine. Then fly back down to Harper’s Ferry and go South to Springer Mountain in Georgia. Expect it to take me 6 months , give or take a couple weeks.