Freaked by cicada swarms? You could just stick a fork in em Cicada nymphs appear on top of chocolate cookies at the home of University of Maryland entomologists Michael Raupp and Paula Shrewsbury in Columbia, Md. on May 17, 2021. The cookies are meant to depict the cicada nymph emerging from the dirt. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) | Photo: AP. By MARK KENNEDY Created: May 19, 2021 11:59 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - Cicadas are poised to infest whole swaths of American backyards this summer. Maybe it s time they invaded your kitchen.
Swarms of the red-eyed bugs, who are reemerging after 17 years below ground, offer a chance for home cooks to turn the tables and make them into snacks.
A cicada peers over a ledge in Chapel Hill, N.C. in this 2011 file photo. Swarms of the red-eyed bugs reemerging after 17 years below ground offer a chance for home cooks to turn the tables: making the cicadas into snacks. Full of protein, gluten-free, low-fat and low-carb, cicadas were used as a food source by Native Americans and are still eaten by humans in many countries.
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Welcoming cicadas into the kitchen
Experts and aficionados encourage Americans to eat the insect when it swarms the eastern US this summer
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Cicadas are poised to infest whole swaths of American backyards this summer. Maybe it’s time they invaded your kitchen.
Swarms of the red-eyed bugs, who are reemerging after 17 years below ground, offer a chance for home cooks to turn the tables and make them into snacks.
Full of protein, gluten-free, low-fat and low-carb, cicadas were used as a food source by Native Americans and are still eaten by humans in many countries.
Cicada nymphs appear on top of chocolate cookies last week at the home of University of Maryland entomologists Michael Raupp and Paula Shrewsbury in Columbia, Maryland. The cookies are meant to depict the cicada nymph emerging from the dirt.