Eating Cicadas

These alien looking insects spend 17 years underground as larvae sucking sap from tree roots and spend just one summer singing as adults. But now nutritionists are looking at them as at a precious aliment: cicadas contain the same protein amount as red meat (pound per pound) and many vitamins... [ read more >> ]

Adult cicada

Juvenile (top), teneral (middle) and adult (bottom) cicadas

Image comment: Juvenile (top), teneral (middle) and adult (bottom) cicadas
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Juvenile (top), teneral (middle) and adult (bottom) cicadas