Michael Dobuski/ABC News(NEW YORK) Just within the past week, Brood X cicadas have delayed a White House press flight, been blamed for a car crash in Ohio and shown up on weather radar over Maryland. And the noisy insects' next trip could be to a dinner table near you. Prior to the last Brood X emergence in 2004, University of Maryland graduate student Dr. Jenna Jadin wrote a cookbook full of recipes that use cicadas, called Cicada-licious: Cooking and Enjoying Periodical Cicadas. "I thought it was a great way to make these cicadas, which people seem to be afraid of, less scary," says Jadin. "Because when you can pluck something off the ground and eat it, it's a little bit less terrifying." The cookbook, which is available online, includes a variety of recipes ranging from Cicada Dumplings, to "El Chirper" Tacos, to "Chocolate Chip Trillers." "The ones I've eaten the most are the pecan tartlets, or I've even made them i
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With the emergence of billions of 17-year cicadas in the Brood X group – the Great Eastern Brood, the largest of all cicada broods – just a few weeks away, in mid-May through late June, media of every description are rushing to get in on the buzz about the buzzing insects.
A popular media topic will be eating cicadas, which taps into the “eww” factor of reader interest.
Just as I have with previous cicadas’ emergences in Pennsylvania, I will be joining in the media feeding frenzy over the coming insect explosion and keeping you up to the minute on all things cicada, including the eating of the bug-eyed critters.
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With spring around the corner, there s already buzz about when periodical cicadas will arrive.
The entrance of periodical cicadas, which have been living underground for the past 17 years, will be anything but subtle.
This year will mark the re-emergence of Brood X, or the Great Eastern Brood, of periodical cicadas those large, winged, kind of scary-looking but mostly harmless large flying insects known for their almost deafening buzz.
A jet plane flying in for landing at John Glenn International Airport in Columbus can reach about 80 decibels. But leave it to a group of male cicadas performing mating calls in a tree to top that. Male cicadas have been recorded to hit 96 decibels, said Gene Kritsky, dean of the School of Behavioral and Natural Sciences at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati. Kritsky authored, Periodical Cicadas: the Brood X Edition published by the Ohio Biological Survey, which is expected out in mid-February.