I am not sure who needs to see this...

[Pheroze]

I hope someone here finds this useful. You're welcome.

 

[John Wasmuth]

Well darn, and I was just getting ready to fry a bunch up.......

 

[BourbonTrail]

Mmmm, winged shrimp....

 

[Cervus elaphus]

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I prefer crickets and 'hoppers in insect cuisine. But it's still hard to beat huhu grubs (Aussies call them witchetty grubs)

 

[Pheroze]

Mmmm, winged shrimp....

When you say it like that it sounds quite enticing!

 

[sestoppelman]

Glad we dont have those noisy buggers around here!

 

[Randy F]

Does there have to be warning labels on everything! Geez!

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Well crap, I was just melting the butter.....

 

[Cervus elaphus]

Well crap, I was just melting the butter.....

add the essential garlic chives and chilies

 

[Cervus elaphus]

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Never met a shrimp or lobster I didn't like. Gumbo (Cajun style) is my favorite winter gut warmer.

 

[ZG47]

Next time you eat pink coconut ice OR anything else coloured with genuine cochineal just remember what it is made from!

 

[sgt_zim]

Never met a shrimp or lobster I didn't like. Gumbo (Cajun style) is my favorite winter gut warmer.

You should try your hand at chicken and sausage gumbo. I love seafood gumbo, but it costs me about 50-60 USD for the ingredients. Steaks are less expensive than that, at least here.

 

[Hogpatrol]

If they were anywhere near tasty, I'd walk out in the back yard and have enough for a fifty five gallon drum of cicada gumbo. Some just now pics from my back yard. The noise is deafening.

 

[Hogpatrol]

After being outside and then sitting down checking out AH forums, I felt something a little scratchy on the back of my neck. Yep, one of them hitchhiked. Another time I heard the mating call and sure enough there was one on the hat I was wearing. Fortunately, they're just an annoyance.

 

[sgt_zim]

After being outside and then sitting down checking out AH forums, I felt something a little scratchy on the back of my neck. Yep, one of them hitchhiked. Another time I heard the mating call and sure enough there was one on the hat I was wearing. Fortunately, they're just an annoyance.

Do you guys have locusts every year, or only every few years?

Down here, we have them every single year. They're never as thick as what you're showing in those pics, but we do have them every year.

 

[Hogpatrol]

These are what's called Brood X. Last appearance of them was in 2004. Next time will be in 2038. They mate, lay eggs, go underground, feed on tree root sap and will emerge seventeen years from now.. They're the longest living insect. Pic is of the holes from which they emerged and some morphing from the larvae to adult.

 

[Thumper Mcgee]

all jokes aside i fried some up a few days ago and they tasted fine, they had no foul taste and simply had the flavour of what i seasoned them in

 

[spike.t]

So what's best stage to eat them at...larvae or adult?

 

[sgt_zim]

These are what's called Brood X. Last appearance of them was in 2004. Next time will be in 2038. They mate, lay eggs, go underground, feed on tree root sap and will emerge seventeen years from now.. They're the longest living insect. Pic is of the holes from which they emerged and some morphing from the larvae to adult.
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Well, as I said, we get them every year. We have 16 or 17 years worth of eggs/larvae/pupae in the ground at all times. 17 different annual broods, if you take my meaning.

 

[sgt_zim]

So what's best stage to eat them at...larvae or adult?

you'd have to dig any of the pre-adult stages out of the ground. adult is probably all we can really eat.