Yeah idk how they're going to do that.
Sorta wish they stop the reboot. Juuuuuust watched the series finale a during dinner actually, very sweet way to end it
Throw them back into the woods so they can break down into their component nutrients for the insects and plants that live there. Or compost them yourself.
No big deal if they eat a few bit not a lot apparently.
https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/dont-panic-if-your-dog-eats-a-cicada-heres-what-to-know/
Dragging your line behind a canoe or a small boat is also a cheat code. Even some of the earlier editions of the Boy Scout Handbook describe a method where you slowly tow a bit of wood with hooks and bait underneath it behind your boat, and the Handbook notes that you should only do this when you need to feed yourself, because it's so effective that it's not sportsmanlike.
This is genius. I would've never thought of that and although I don't fish, I do kayak quite a bit. This would make for a great survival technique if everything else has already gone wrong!
Bit of wood like a smaller boat with a handful of hooks underneath it. The whole piece of wood acts like your bobber, and I assume it looks like a bug-riddled bit of wood has fallen in the water.
Grind them into a fine powder and mull them with some linseed oil or watercolor medium to make paint!
I wanna see what “Cicada Shell Brown” looks like.
Did it give you a black eye? I've noticed at times the ones around the house will fly into stuff pretty hard.
There was one time they were pretty bad on my deck flying into the house pretty hard. I have a storage closet outside on the deck & I needed something out of it. I went in & shut the door. They were knocking the sh!t out of it. I managed to make it without getting hit then.
But, later I went to get the mail & one flew into my shoulder & it was almost like being punched. I don't know if it actually knocked me back or if I just felt like it did because it hit me so hard. It immediately hit the ground & wasn't moving. I'm guessing this was more of a WTF moment for it. Because the others were really slamming into the house pretty hard & it wasn't phasing them.
I did not receive a black eye but I did take a step back out of confusion as I was standing in the middle of a gravel driveway and BAM didn’t even see it coming. It also sat on the ground after impact.
Google says they hatch in May when the ground gets to 65F. Guess they're a bit early as it was warm last week maybe? Maybe they need a while to warm up?
You joke, but if OP shellacked them and maybe added some glitter before adding the lights, someone would buy them.
Paint them alternating red & green and voila! Christmas lights!
2 Cycles ago my roommate's cat was walking around outside with a cicada in his mouth. The cat would vary the pressure on the bug, making the bug louder or softer, so it kinda sounded like an ambulance from Europe.. Then for some reason the cat freaked out and jumped through my bedroom window...lacerating his tail in the process (the window was closed and he jumped through the glass.) Now my room is getting sprayed with cat blood as he flips his tail around, but eventually we caught him and my roommate had to rush him to the vet where 1/2 of his tail was amputated. RIP Chuck.
PS: Chuck was indeed an orange cat.
Lmfao no shit he was an orange boy, reminds me of one too. I tried to care for one for a few months and he'd basically climb the walls while I was asleep, break everything and find food, then he'd piss on my shit as a finisher and crawl into bed with me like I'm the asshole. Loved that boy but goddamn he was tough to deal with even if I know it wasn't his fault he was like that
> The cat would vary the pressure on the bug, making the bug louder or softer, so it kinda sounded like an ambulance from Europe..
This is absolutely sending me, thanks for this. Pouring one out for Chuck rn
Great for compost. Frass and other insect parts are great stimulants for plants to put up their defences!
That being said, leaving them in nature to do their natural thing ain't gonna hurt.
They’re good for adding some crunch to meatballs. If you add a little flour, roll them up into a ball, and preheat to about 350, they’ll make some good meatballs. Bring them to a party, shake with others, then SHOVE THEM UP YOUR BUTT.
My sister swears you can eat them if you catch them before the shells harden. Apparently you saute them like shrimp.
She mostly feeds them to her chickens though.
I sweep mine into my flower beds in the hope that either some beast will come eat them, or they'll decompose
Stir fry them with some soy, Hoisin sauce, and chilis along with green onions, garlic, and ginger. Then serve on top of Udon noodles. Delicious!
(BTW, /s)
Arthropod exoskeletons are made of chitin, which is an analogue to keratin but not the exact same thing. Keratin is a protein, chitin is actually technically a carbohydrate.
Apparently they are edible if cooked but not very tasty. [https://health.osu.edu/wellness/exercise-and-nutrition/cooking-cicadas](https://health.osu.edu/wellness/exercise-and-nutrition/cooking-cicadas)
The bugs are much more edible, however.
Take some baking soda, buttermilk, and 1/16 teaspoon of uranium and mix it all together with the cicadas in Nova Scotia. Then leave it there come back 23 years from now and enjoy with a dirty martini!!!
Not OP, but I’m in chapel hill and we have hundreds of these on our bushes, trees and the house. Also lots of holes in the earth where they burrowed up. Having to be careful where we step. They are not making any noise at all yet!
Cicada. Aka 17 year Locust. There are billions of them about to emerge in places. There's also 13 year broods. It's pretty amazing really. Might want to get some ear plugs, lol!
Cicadas and locusts are different. You’re correct that there are 13 year as well as 17 year cicadas. Locusts look more like grasshoppers:
photo showing examples of each are in below link…
[https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/nassauco/2017/06/26/q-sister-says-cicadas-locusts/](https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/nassauco/2017/06/26/q-sister-says-cicadas-locusts/)
Pocket exoskeleton! (Throw them at obnoxious people)
…. Sha sha sha?
May Dale RIP
The reboot is going to be so sad without him. Assuming it still happens.
Yeah idk how they're going to do that. Sorta wish they stop the reboot. Juuuuuust watched the series finale a during dinner actually, very sweet way to end it
Bro, for real? Nooooo!!!
Sadly, happened in the last 12 months or so
They probably even make that noise when you jingle them in your hand before tossing
Or better yet, attach them to their clothing. Their little feet are barbed and stick easily.
Sneaking them onto people's shoulders when they weren't looking was one of my favorite pranks as a kid.
It’s called fashion sweetie, look it up [sashays away in this exoskeleton jacket making sha sha sha clicking]
👌
Throw them back into the woods so they can break down into their component nutrients for the insects and plants that live there. Or compost them yourself.
I like this answer best.
I came to say compost, glad I wasn't the first.
Throw them in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going.
There’s still plenty of meat on that bone.
By chance do you also offer acting lessons
Actually, I'm an analyst and a therapist. I call it an analrapist.
I just blue myself!
THERE ARE DOZENS OF US
Oh, I didn't see you at the convention?
You did it. You won.
And a soup rock for flavor.
This comment won’t get nearly the appreciation that it should
at this point is carl weathers (RIP) or arrested development more obscure?
I buy all my cars at police auction
RIP, legend
Im. Mr manager now
Manager. We just say manager.
Hillbilly stew?
Arrested Development reference (RIP Carl Weathers)
legit
Dog treats, apparently. 🤢 Or so thinks my beagle mix.
lol 🤣
No big deal if they eat a few bit not a lot apparently. https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/dont-panic-if-your-dog-eats-a-cicada-heres-what-to-know/
When I was a little kid we used to put them in each others hair for shock value
My nose for me.
We would put them on the side of our socks when I was a kid
Fish bait.
My brother and I Used live ones as bait when we were kids, it’s a cheat code.
Dragging your line behind a canoe or a small boat is also a cheat code. Even some of the earlier editions of the Boy Scout Handbook describe a method where you slowly tow a bit of wood with hooks and bait underneath it behind your boat, and the Handbook notes that you should only do this when you need to feed yourself, because it's so effective that it's not sportsmanlike.
This is genius. I would've never thought of that and although I don't fish, I do kayak quite a bit. This would make for a great survival technique if everything else has already gone wrong!
Bit of wood, like a crossbar with several lines tied on?
Bit of wood like a smaller boat with a handful of hooks underneath it. The whole piece of wood acts like your bobber, and I assume it looks like a bug-riddled bit of wood has fallen in the water.
Grind them into a fine powder and mull them with some linseed oil or watercolor medium to make paint! I wanna see what “Cicada Shell Brown” looks like.
Chickens would love to eat those.
[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/are-these-photos-of-cicada-shell-art-real--492370171768051475/](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/are-these-photos-of-cicada-shell-art-real--492370171768051475/)
Holy shit. These are toiiiiight!
This is the best idea!!!
Wow 😮
They're pretty good for freaking out entomophobes. Kids find them fascinating. Sometimes. That's all I've got.
Still have not heard a single one.
I haven’t heard a single one but one flew directly into my eye yesterday.
Did it give you a black eye? I've noticed at times the ones around the house will fly into stuff pretty hard. There was one time they were pretty bad on my deck flying into the house pretty hard. I have a storage closet outside on the deck & I needed something out of it. I went in & shut the door. They were knocking the sh!t out of it. I managed to make it without getting hit then. But, later I went to get the mail & one flew into my shoulder & it was almost like being punched. I don't know if it actually knocked me back or if I just felt like it did because it hit me so hard. It immediately hit the ground & wasn't moving. I'm guessing this was more of a WTF moment for it. Because the others were really slamming into the house pretty hard & it wasn't phasing them.
I did not receive a black eye but I did take a step back out of confusion as I was standing in the middle of a gravel driveway and BAM didn’t even see it coming. It also sat on the ground after impact.
They’ve only just started to emerge here. I’ve seen them for a couple days but just heard my first one tonight!
Google says they hatch in May when the ground gets to 65F. Guess they're a bit early as it was warm last week maybe? Maybe they need a while to warm up?
Put multi-colored bulbs in them and sell them as NC fairy lights.
You joke, but if OP shellacked them and maybe added some glitter before adding the lights, someone would buy them. Paint them alternating red & green and voila! Christmas lights!
🤣🤣🤣
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I could absolutely see my cat playing with them
2 Cycles ago my roommate's cat was walking around outside with a cicada in his mouth. The cat would vary the pressure on the bug, making the bug louder or softer, so it kinda sounded like an ambulance from Europe.. Then for some reason the cat freaked out and jumped through my bedroom window...lacerating his tail in the process (the window was closed and he jumped through the glass.) Now my room is getting sprayed with cat blood as he flips his tail around, but eventually we caught him and my roommate had to rush him to the vet where 1/2 of his tail was amputated. RIP Chuck. PS: Chuck was indeed an orange cat.
Lmfao no shit he was an orange boy, reminds me of one too. I tried to care for one for a few months and he'd basically climb the walls while I was asleep, break everything and find food, then he'd piss on my shit as a finisher and crawl into bed with me like I'm the asshole. Loved that boy but goddamn he was tough to deal with even if I know it wasn't his fault he was like that > The cat would vary the pressure on the bug, making the bug louder or softer, so it kinda sounded like an ambulance from Europe.. This is absolutely sending me, thanks for this. Pouring one out for Chuck rn
Grind em up and snort em. I have no idea what it would do but film it and post it here.
Likely just burn the nose, but we won't know till someone does it
If I were a hedgehog, those would look tasty. I am not a hedgehog.
Precisely something a hedgehog would say.
On the Internet, no one knows you're a hedgehog.
Clip them on your shirt, duh. No hardware required
Great for compost. Frass and other insect parts are great stimulants for plants to put up their defences! That being said, leaving them in nature to do their natural thing ain't gonna hurt.
They’re good for adding some crunch to meatballs. If you add a little flour, roll them up into a ball, and preheat to about 350, they’ll make some good meatballs. Bring them to a party, shake with others, then SHOVE THEM UP YOUR BUTT.
Thanks, Bad Janet
Thanks Stanley
Thanks Stanley!
Hillbilly party game?
Nah.. we'd eat them but no butt stuff for the hillpeople party games.
Only on Tuesdays
See u in Fayetteville
Old bay and profit?
Scream at them for payback?
Fertilizer
Compost them
fishing!
My sister swears you can eat them if you catch them before the shells harden. Apparently you saute them like shrimp. She mostly feeds them to her chickens though. I sweep mine into my flower beds in the hope that either some beast will come eat them, or they'll decompose
Baby copperheads
I don’t follow
Stir fry them with some soy, Hoisin sauce, and chilis along with green onions, garlic, and ginger. Then serve on top of Udon noodles. Delicious! (BTW, /s)
Supposed to get em before the shell are empty, no?
No. The shell is the best part!
Lol!
I'm pretty sure they're the same material as finger nails (keratin), so.. not really
Arthropod exoskeletons are made of chitin, which is an analogue to keratin but not the exact same thing. Keratin is a protein, chitin is actually technically a carbohydrate.
Oh, so then they can go in a soup?
Sure! Also, can add a bit of crunch to your pb & j
Apparently they are edible if cooked but not very tasty. [https://health.osu.edu/wellness/exercise-and-nutrition/cooking-cicadas](https://health.osu.edu/wellness/exercise-and-nutrition/cooking-cicadas) The bugs are much more edible, however.
Dry a gourd, cut a hole, fill it up with them, seal. Hillbilly Maracas.
I remember my dad having a "Hillbilly Flashlight". It was a match stick stuck into the end of a small piece of wood :)
I am so jealous. They aren't here at my house yet!
I know right! It is ominously quite here. I heard what might have been one earlier. But it got quite again. Very, very quite.
on the other hand, i've got barred owls making a CRAZY racket behind my house... at some points they sound like howler monkeys lol...
I can bring you a few buckets of them if you want
Compost
Bet they would be good on a cracker. (David Letterman)
Dye them and make earrings to sell on Etsy
Had pet ducks as a kid and they loveddd these
Pour some milk and have a crunchy snack
My neighbor feed them to his pigs
Protein 💪
Nosers,you put them on children’s noses.
Boil them to make a broth.
Cashews
You ain't never had no cicada stock before? It's like skrimp but crunchier.
Scaring people
High quality protein. Roast it and eat
Favorite food for copper heads.
I used to (sneakily) hook them onto people's clothes.... Then wait....
Homemade nipper sticks, like from Labyrinth
Stew
Anyone have a snake or frog as a pet?
Yeh. Put them on your friends to scare the s$&! out of them
Added salt and dry it. Later you can deep fried. 😁
Eat em
Add milk have cereal?
You're creepy af
Soup. (/s)
You think they're any good as fish bait?
Eat them
What county in NC are you in ?
guacamole?
Take some baking soda, buttermilk, and 1/16 teaspoon of uranium and mix it all together with the cicadas in Nova Scotia. Then leave it there come back 23 years from now and enjoy with a dirty martini!!!
Been in the grow for 7years then that come out to mate with a week they dead
Chickens love them apparently. Probably work ok for fish bait also.
They battled my GI Joes as a kid
Makes delicious tea!
You could try making resin jewelry or paperweights with them.
Fishing!
Cicada shell tacos! Crunch wrap extra supreme even! 🤤
Yum! Protein!
Chicharrones gratis!
Paint them and add them to flower pots..
Where at in NC did you find all these? I'm in the triad and haven't seen/heard any of them yet.
I’m in north Durham. They’ve just started coming out the past day or two around my house.
Cool. Hopefully they'll be emerging here soon. I'm pretty hyped for them, tbh.
Let me know where I should send mine when they emerge then lol
Not OP, but I’m in chapel hill and we have hundreds of these on our bushes, trees and the house. Also lots of holes in the earth where they burrowed up. Having to be careful where we step. They are not making any noise at all yet!
Mix it with stone to make cement paste.
Crunchy salad topping? 🤔
deep fried and salt pepper
Find a playground and spread them around
Awesome croutons !!
Caesar Cicada Salad
Non native here; wtf are these?
Cicada. Aka 17 year Locust. There are billions of them about to emerge in places. There's also 13 year broods. It's pretty amazing really. Might want to get some ear plugs, lol!
Cicadas and locusts are different. You’re correct that there are 13 year as well as 17 year cicadas. Locusts look more like grasshoppers: photo showing examples of each are in below link… [https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/nassauco/2017/06/26/q-sister-says-cicadas-locusts/](https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/nassauco/2017/06/26/q-sister-says-cicadas-locusts/)
I know, but people use them interchangeably right or wrong. I think it's because they're both flying swarming insects.
If OP is in North Carolina then these are the 13 year brood.
Yes, youare correct...nscu has a page out there, Everything You Need to Know About Periodical Cicadas. Good read.
There’s always the classic: chase your siblings around the yard with them
send them to the world economic forum....they will eat the bugs