The Cicadas Are Coming!

[antimatter 139]

[Teky0101 6]

Man that's creepy!!

[BlueLineFish 615]

Yes it is.

[fishnut 2,358]

Bunch of girls! Creeped out by an insect LOL. Just to let everyone know cicadas are great to eat. Just pull the wings off and cook them up.

[BlueLineFish 615]

Bunch of girls! Creeped out by an insect LOL. Just to let everyone know cicadas are great to eat. Just pull the wings off and cook them up.

Definitely not doing that

[Purple Patrick 638]

Bunch of girls! Creeped out by an insect LOL. Just to let everyone know cicadas are great to eat. Just pull the wings off and cook them up.

I'm never eatting Any snacks at your house...

 

 

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[Night Prowler 0]

Bunch of girls! Creeped out by an insect LOL. Just to let everyone know cicadas are great to eat. Just pull the wings off and cook them up.

If your bringing snacks on Saturday, I will bring refreshments.

[BleedingOrange36 0]

Any sightings yet? Nothing down by me yet...

[Donobieus 15]

Nothing in Toms River yet either

[KpdPipes 388]

I have the feeling that those of us who had any kind of significant flooding from Sandy are NOT going to be seeing any cicada invasion 

[raz-0 1,259]

I have the feeling that those of us who had any kind of significant flooding from Sandy are NOT going to be seeing any cicada invasion

 

Possibly, but I remember some of the swarms when I was a kid/teenager.

 

The last few broods have been total non events. Something's got to mess with them or it has to be much more regional than they make it out to be.

[Celraysoda 7]

I read that you can eat them raw right when they come out while they are still pale.

[WVisHome 0]

they can sting, but dont typically unless you f*ck with their nest... tennis racquet should do the trick.. a little topspin and away they go...

 

 

Precisely! Although I suggest a badminton racquet.

[WVisHome 0]

Bunch of girls! Creeped out by an insect LOL. Just to let everyone know cicadas are great to eat. Just pull the wings off and cook them up.

 

Screw that...tell me I have a vag.....I really don't care. Unless I'm absolutely starving, No. Way.

[fishnut 2,358]

Screw that...tell me I have a vag.....I really don't care. Unless I'm absolutely starving, No. Way.

You know the majority of the world eats insects North America is one of the few regions  that does not eat them. Do you eat shrimp, crab, and lobster? They are all invertebrates just like insects the only difference is that eating them is socially normal in north america

[KpdPipes 388]

Possibly, but I remember some of the swarms when I was a kid/teenager.

 

The last few broods have been total non events. Something's got to mess with them or it has to be much more regional than they make it out to be.

 I get some every year..so far this year we've neither seen or heard ANY.  All of the yards in my neighborhood had standing water around 4" deep for the better part of a full day

[bhunted 887]

Quiet here so far but I have extra tin foil and the bbq is ready for grilling!

 

 

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[Wolfy 51]

Are they editable????

Here are some recipes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shanghai Cicadas

Ingredients:

30 newly-emerged cicadas

2 tbps anise seeds

1 tsp salt

2 cups sherry

1tbsp soy sauce

additional water and sherry or rice wine

10 cloves mashed garlic

celery to garnish

turnip greens to garnish

Directions:

1. Boil the cicadas and anise in salted sherry for five minutes, then remove the cicadas.

2. Saute the mashed garlic and soy sauce, adding enough of equal parts water and sherry to make a thick paste.

3. Deep-fry the cicadas, then skewer them with bamboo picks. Arrange them on a plate with the turnip greens, celery, and garlic paste to look like cicadas climbing out of a mud pie into green foliage.

 

 

 

Cicada Stir-Fry

Ingredients:

1 onion, minced

2 tbsps fresh coriander (cilantro), chopped

1 tbsp fresh gingerroot, minced

3/4 cup sliced carrots

3/4 cup chopped cauliflower and/or broccoli

1 can water chestnuts

3/4cup bean sprouts

3/4cup snow peas

40 blanched teneral cicadas

Directions:

1. Capture cicadas at night as they emerge from the ground. Blanche for 1 minute in boiling water. They can now be stored in freezer or used immediately in recipes.

2. In a wok or other suitable pan, heat a couple tablespoons of vegetable oil. Add ingredients in the order listed above when those in the most recent addition are partially cooked.

3. Serve over whole-grain rice and add soy sauce to taste.

 

 

 

El Chirper Tacos

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons butter or peanut oil

1/2 pound newly-emerged cicadas

3 serrano chilies, raw, finely chopped

1 tomato, finely chopped

1 onion, finely chopped

1/2 tsp ground pepper or to taste

1/2 tsp cumin

3 tsp taco seasoning mix

1 handful cilantro, chopped

Taco shells, to serve

Sour cream

Shredded cheddar cheese

Shredded lettuce

Directions:

1. Heat the butter or oil in a frying pan and fry the cicadas for 10 minutes, or until cooked through.

2. Remove from pan and roughly chop into 1/4 inch cubes. Place back in pan.

3. Add the chopped onions, chilies, and tomato, and season with salt, and fry for another 5 minutes on medium-low heat.

4. Sprinkle with ground pepper, cumin, and oregano, to taste.

5. Serve in taco shells and garnish with cilantro, sour cream, lettuce, and cheddar cheese.

 

Filed Under: Bugs, Food

Category: Amazing, Weird News

 

 

 

Who is John Galt?

I am so excited I figured out how to change my signature.

[Walt of Destiny 412]

Sure, after Sandy, why not the locusts ? What else can mother nature throw at us....

ZOMBIE CICADAS ARE COMING

 

[JLF 0]

I've yet to see any here and I'm disappointed

[Purple Patrick 638]

There's literally 1000 shells at the base of one tree in my backyard

 

 

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[JLF 0]

Hmm wonder if we are missing out being at the shore...

 

Pics or it didn't happen?

[Purple Patrick 638]

Hmm wonder if we are missing out being at the shore...

 

 

Pics or it didn't happen?

Ill get you pics there's so many at my house

 

 

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[DSD1026 48]

havent seen any down in monmouth county yet..  most have said that NW Jersey was going to get it worse than other parts of the state..  central jersey got the brunt of them last time ('04)

[Night Prowler 0]

Have seen a few near Morristown.

[olderguy 0]

There's literally 1000 shells at the base of one tree in my backyard

 

 

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Back in the 1979 swarm I lived in Warren Township and my teenage son cut lawns(yes kids worked in those days).

 

He had one customer that the swarm was so bad he could not cut the lawn. The mower was mulching them and throwing out liquid as they came out of the ground, He came home to get me and when we got there you couldn't walk without scrunching many of them with each step.

 

 

Must be the same brood.

[Purple Patrick 638]

Hmm wonder if we are missing out being at the shore...

 

 

Pics or it didn't happen?

Pics so it counts

 

 

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[JLF 0]

Holy carcasses!

Or more properly carapaces!

[Purple Patrick 638]

They seem to only be in that tree despite being backed up to the woods. Haven't been making any noise yet

 

 

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[Urban Grunt 44]

I'm on open farm land, south jersey none here