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Cicadas - entomophagy
6:30 am
Tue June 14, 2011

Cicadas. Love 'em. Hate 'em. Eat 'em?

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These cicadas were collected at night, shortly after they emerged, while their bodies were still soft and white. They were then frozen for storage.
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Cicadas frying: Entomologist Chris Hartley sautés up some cicadas in butter and garlic.
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Cicada scampi. Bon appétit!
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Eating cicadas CH: Chris Hartley enjoys a bite of the cicada scampi he cooked up at the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield.
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The little round black things? Those are eyes.
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St. Louis Public Radio reporter Véronique LaCapra eats cicadas. All in the name of science!
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(Have a cicada sighting to report? Share it with us on our interactive map - photos and videos welcome, too!)

Billions of periodical cicadas have emerged over the past few weeks in more than a dozen states across the Southeast and Midwest.

A food bonanza for predators

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Cicadas - entomology
6:35 am
Mon June 13, 2011

Cicadas: the science behind the invasion

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Two cicadas hang upside down on a branch, facing in opposite directions, to mate.
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Male cicadas have two white organs called tymbals that they use to make their characteristic loud song to attract mates.
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After living underground for thirteen years, cicada nymphs tunnel out of the ground to shed their skins and begin their adult lives.
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The nymphs climb up a bush or tree to molt during the night leaving their brown casings behind.
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These adult cicadas are part of the 2011 emergence of brood XIX, the Great Southern Brood of 13-year periodical cicadas.
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They’re back. And if they’re out in your neighborhood, they’re pretty hard to miss.

I’m talking about the periodical cicadas. In the past few weeks, they’ve emerged by the billions in states from Maryland to Georgia to Oklahoma.

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Cicadas
11:42 am
Tue June 7, 2011

Missouri cicada ice cream seller advised to cool it

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An extreme closeup of a cicada. Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream in Columbia, Mo. featured the insects in a flavor of ice cream last week, but have since been told to halt production.
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Updated 9:59 a.m. June 8 to clarify Associated Press story.

Public health officials in Columbia, Mo. have asked an ice cream shop to cool it* with the cicada-flavored ice cream that customers apparently can't get enough of.

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