April 2021 is Brood X month. Also known as the 17 year locust, their time has come once again. It is ready for adulthood, and we’ll hear, perhaps see, definitely host, billions of them. It'll be a short visit, so get ready. Crawl out of the ground, eat, mate, lay eggs, and then die, all in the short space of about 4 weeks. Here’s an article with more detail https://earthsky.org/earth/17-year-cicadas-broodx-2021
For about four weeks, wooded and suburban areas will ring with cicadas’ whistling and buzzing mating calls. After mating, each female will lay hundreds of eggs in pencil-sized tree branches.
Advocates of alternative diets and adventurous eaters will have lots of opportunity. There are hundreds of websites with recipes and serving ideas. Here’s one from the gourmet magazine Bon Appétit https://www.bonappetit.com/uncatego...cook-cicadas-according-to-3-richmond-va-chefs
A big event in the insect world is approaching. Starting sometime in April or May, depending on latitude, one of the largest broods of 17-year cicadas will emerge from underground in a dozen states, from New York west to Illinois and south into northern Georgia. This group is known as Brood X, as in the Roman numeral for 10.
For about four weeks, wooded and suburban areas will ring with cicadas’ whistling and buzzing mating calls. After mating, each female will lay hundreds of eggs in pencil-sized tree branches.
Advocates of alternative diets and adventurous eaters will have lots of opportunity. There are hundreds of websites with recipes and serving ideas. Here’s one from the gourmet magazine Bon Appétit https://www.bonappetit.com/uncatego...cook-cicadas-according-to-3-richmond-va-chefs
Another great civilization loves cicadas, too: ours. From West Virginia, where that cookbook touted the pleasures to be had from this "shrimp of the dirt," to Maryland, where in this cookbook cicadas get the star treatment normally reserved for blue crab, and on down South, the East Coast has lavished attention on this ultimate seasonal delicacy, whose season comes but once every 17 years or so.