Cicadas

[oosik]

There is a site on the web - "Don't eat cicadas if you have an allergy to seafood". My experience - eating roasted grass hoppers - UGGG.

 

[ruffdog]

Insects are a good source of protein, iron, etc...without the saturated fats.

Insects as food - Wikipedia

 

[kenmbz]

Sold all over Asia, freshly fried or grilled.
Good, cheap protein

 

[rekees4300]

YUCK

 

[rekees4300]

Around our house (which is surrounded by trees) it now sounds like the above video 1000X. It's truly painful to the ears to be outside more than 5 minutes!

 

[stuckmotor]

Out here it's not cicadas, it's Mormon crickets for the 3rd year in a row now. Anything that's green is gone very quickly when these 2" monsters are on the move.View attachment 699644

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10216399329490787

Do the Mormon Crickets eat enough greenery to have any affect on brush fires or do you even have enough brush to have a brush fire problem?

 

[deserteagle71]

Do the Mormon Crickets eat enough greenery to have any affect on brush fires?

No. Greenery doesn't burn. This is not California, we don't have huge tall forests. What we have is cheatgrass and low brush, which by midsummer is completely dried out. But the one thing good about wildfires is that they can wipe out huge populations of crickets and grasshoppers.

 

[kenmbz]

Still not many cicadas here.
Did you guys take them ?

 

[stuckmotor]

No. Greenery doesn't burn. This is not California, we don't have huge tall forests. What we have is cheatgrass and low brush, which by midsummer is completely dried out. But the one thing good about wildfires is that they can wipe out huge populations of crickets and grasshoppers.

Thanks. I was thinking the crickets might take out the greenery before it could dry and become flammable.

 

[lman]

Haven't seen or heard any here? I'm getting hungry!