May 25, 2021
While everyone’s flipping out about cicadas making their once-in-17-years appearance, a Maryland company is adding some crunch to their candy.with you guessed it – cicadas!
The company,
Chouquette Chocolates, is selling chocolate-covered cicadas to celebrate the reappearance of the noisy insects. The fresh cicadas are frozen, before being air fried and dropped in milk or dark chocolate.
Interested? Experts say cicadas are low in fat and high in protein. And why not – billions of cicadas will emerge as temperatures warm in the eastern part of the U.S., with this year expecting its largest cicada appearance since 2004.
May 24, 2021 A Maryland company is adding some crunch to their candy this year. The company, Chouquette Chocolates, is selling chocolate-covered cicadas to celebrate the 17-year reappearance of the noisy insects. The fresh cicadas are frozen, before being air fried and dropped in milk or dark chocolate. Experts say cicadas are low in fat and high in protein. Billions of cicadas will emerge as temperatures warm in the eastern part of the U.S., with this year expecting its largest cicada appearance since 2004.
Just about every year Cicadas start appearing in South Dakota in July or August. They are those big noisy bugs that we hear every summer in the midwest.
But this year is a big year because a wave of cicadas will be descending on parts of the nation by the trillions. Every 17 years all the cicadas that have been tunneling and eating make their way above ground to sprout wings, chow down, and mate.
This Big Bunch of Bugs called Brood X was last seen in 2004. And although the Brood X bugs are already appearing out east they won t be coming to South Dakota. Amanda Bachmann with the South Dakota State University Extension Office says no Brood X cicadas live in our state. Good news.
May 24, 2021
A Maryland company is adding some crunch to their candy this year!
Gaithersburg based Chouquette Chocolates is selling chocolate-covered cicadas to celebrate the 17-year reappearance of the noisy insects. It s really like a chocolate-covered potato chip. It s really crunchy because we air-fry them. So, we clean them first, then air-fry them and then dip them in chocolate and you sprinkle whatever spice you want on top, said Sarah Dwyer, owner of Chouquette Chocolates.
Experts say cicadas are low in fat and high in protein and since their reappearance, recipes have flooded the internet for everything from spicy popcorn cicadas, cicada cookies, soft-shelled cicadas.