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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 3:24 pm
yahooooooooooooo they're not in WI Haven't seen the ketchup pringles
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 3:30 pm
We are plagued each year with fish flies...or mayflies or june bugs...take your pick, they are all the same annoying insect. I go with fish fly, as en masse, they have the aroma of rotting fish...ick. Oh..and they're slippery to walk on....lol. ;)
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Bigd
Member
09-13-2001
| Friday, May 14, 2004 - 11:19 am
are they locusts? I grew up in Louisiana and we called them Locusts in Shreveport. I have heard some people call them cady digs, but I have never heard the word cicadas, I have only seen it in print - does anyone know how to pronounce it?
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Friday, May 14, 2004 - 2:34 pm
no Bigd. Locusts are grasshoppers. These are a different breed of pest. The cicadas appear in cycles of 13 or 17 years and there are (I think) about 23 different broods of them with Brood X being the largest. Main Entry: ka·ty·did Pronunciation: 'kA-tE-"did Function: noun Etymology: imitative : any of several large green American long-horned grasshoppers usually having stridulating organs on the forewings of the males that produce a loud shrill sound Main Entry: lo·cust Pronunciation: 'lO-k&st Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin locusta 1 : SHORT-HORNED GRASSHOPPER; especially : a migratory grasshopper often traveling in vast swarms and stripping the areas passed of all vegetation Main Entry: ci·ca·da Pronunciation: s&-'kA-d&, -'kä-; sI-'kA- Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -das also ci·ca·dae /-'kA-(")dE, -'kä-/ Etymology: New Latin, genus name, from Latin, cicada : any of a family (Cicadidae) of homopterous insects which have a stout body, wide blunt head, and large transparent wings and the males of which produce a loud buzzing noise usually by stridulation
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, May 14, 2004 - 3:55 pm
I thought we have cicadas in Vegas, but we have them every year. Maybe they aren't cicadas, but that picture sure looks like them.
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Ddr
Member
08-19-2001
| Friday, May 14, 2004 - 4:25 pm
I'm curious, are "love bugs" all over the United States, or are they a southern thing? I hate those suckers.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 2:04 pm
Well found out that Cicadas are high in protein and low in carbs. Anybody on the Atkin's diet? And here's an interesting recipe, not Atkins friendly. Soft-Shelled Cicadas Ingredients: 1 cup Worcestershire sauce 60 freshly emerged 17 year cicadas 4 eggs, beaten 3 cups flour Salt and pepper to season flour 1 cup corn oil or slightly salted butter Directions: Marinate cicadas, alive in a sealed container, in Worcestershire sauce for several hours. Dip them in beaten egg, roll them in the seasoned flour and then gently saute them until they are golden brown. Yield: 4 main dish servings
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 2:18 pm
is this a real recipe? <faints>
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 2:25 pm
Yes Jbean it's a real recipe. There's also one for Cicada pizza, Chili Cicada, Stir Fry Cidadas, etc.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 2:29 pm
We get Cicadas too, every year, and they are annoyingly loud... When DS was lil DH's company had a picnic, and we made recipes for the critters, you couldnt walk without stepping on them, but they didnt buzz around ourheads or anything that I remember... I remember someone had a cookie recipe w/ cicadas in them...
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 4:47 pm
Funny how certain things stick vividly in your mind, no matter how much time has elapsed, compared to others that can be forgotten in a week. One of my vivid recollections is being 13 years old, sitting in grade 9 science class and our teacher, who happened to be fresh off the boat from Australia, was teaching us about cicadas and their 17 year cycles. For some reason that info really blew me away, that they'd be underground all that time then emerge and I can remember that lesson, as if it was taught to me yesterday! 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 5:16 pm
Tess, cicadas are indeed referred to as locusts. When I was growing up in Illinois, we referred to that insect as both a cicada and a locust. This is from the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Periodical cicadas are found in eastern North America and belong to the genus Magicicada. There are seven species -- four with 13-year life cycles (including one new species just described), and three with 17-year cycles. The three 17-year species are generally northern in distribution, while the 13-year species are generally southern and midwestern. Magicicada are so synchronized developmentally that they are nearly absent as adults in the 12 or 16 years between emergences. When they do emerge after their long juvenile periods, they do so in huge numbers, forming much denser aggregations than those achieved by most other cicadas. Many people know periodical cicadas by the name "17-year locusts" or "13-year locusts", but they are not true locusts, which are a type of grasshopper. http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/michigan_cicadas/Periodical/Index.html As this excerpt notes, cicadas are not true locusts.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 5:35 pm
Here's a recipe for ya RB! Emergence Cookies These should look like cicadas emerging out of a little pile of chunky mud! Ingredients: 1/2 cup shortening 3 eggs 1 1/2 cups sugar 4oz unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled 2 tsp. baking powder 2 tsp. vanilla 2 cups all purpose flour 1/3 cup sugar 1 beaten egg white 1/2 cup coarsely chopped nuts (optional) about 60 parboiled dry roasted cicadas (roast for only 8 minutes so that they retain some moisture) Directions: 1. In a large bowl, beat shortening with eggs, the 11/2 cups sugar, cooled chocolate, baking powder, and vanilla until well combined, scraping sides of bowl. 2. Gradually stir in flour till thoroughly combined. Stir in the nuts. Cover and chill for 1-2 hours or until dough is easy to handle. 3. Meanwhile, stir together the 1/3 cup sugar and beaten egg white. Place cicadas on waxed paper; brush with egg white mixture and set aside. 4. Shape dough into 1inch balls. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Place a cicada on top of each ball, pressing lightly. 5. Bake in a 375 oven for 8-10 minutes or till edges are set. Transfer to a rack to cool. Yield: 60 cookies I actually think these would be a good desert after eating El Chirper Tacos [of course made with Cicadas!]. 
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 7:25 pm
Oh...um...ah.....wow...those look mighty yummy there, Miss Serate. Well, maybe just a li'l nibble..................
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 7:25 pm
That was my point, Juju. Though many people call them locusts, they really aren't. So, many people calling them locusts, doesn't make them locusts, just makes them cicadas with the wrong name. No matter what they are, there's no way I'd eat one in a cookie.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 7:43 pm
Funny, kiddo
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 9:03 pm
Aww c'mon Tess ya mean if I made a batch just for you they'd go untouched? There's also a recipe for Cicada Dumplin's if that would make you happier than the cookies. Actually I did make some cookies tonight for my fiance' to take to work, just no cicadas in them. Just chocolate and Ande's Mints.
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 9:22 pm
Serate, at this point, with all the cicada recipes floating around, I have a feeling I would be looking real funny at any cooking, dumpling, stew, chili, whatever anyone in the Brood X zone offered me in the next several weeks. ack! El Chirper Tacos? 
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 9:31 pm
You just gave me a GREAT idea Tess. I think I'll print out the cicada cookie recipe [taking out the nuts and adding the Ande's mints in] and have my fiance' show the recipe to everybody AFTER the cookies have been eaten.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 10:57 pm
Actually, I think many people, including universities and entomological groups, calling them locusts DOES make them an insect called a locust, just not a grasshopper type locust. In other words, it is not incorrect to call a cicada a locust, since they are commonly called by that name.
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 10:59 pm

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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 8:35 am
Actually I think the word 'locust' can be used in as far as the SIZE of an infestation. I believe if you are totally overrun, you call them locust...but they aren't per se... lol Dunno if I've made that clear as mud or not. It's sort of that term 'plague of locust' but the insects don't necessarily have to be grasshoppers. Okay...I better quit while I'm behind... ;)
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 8:49 am
Feast of sauteed cicadas makes man ill Associated Press May 16, 2004 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A man who cooked and ate nearly 30 cicadas sought treatment after suffering a strong allergic reaction to the sauteed insects. The man showed up at a Bloomington clinic Thursday, covered from head-to-toe in hives, and sheepishly told a doctor he'd caught and ate the cicadas after sauteing them in butter with crushed garlic and basil. "He said they didn't taste too bad, but his wife didn't care for the aroma," said Dr. Al Ripani, who treated the man at Promptcare East. The man, who has a history of asthma and shellfish allergies, suffered a "significant allergic reaction," Ripani said. He said he gave the man antihistamines, steroids and an adrenaline shot, watched him for two hours, then sent him home. After living underground for 17 years and feeding on tree roots, the so-called Brood X cicadas are emerging by the billions across the Eastern United States. Ripani said recent newspaper articles extolling the tastiness of cicada cuisine should have warned that eating the bugs can be dangerous for some people. "Severe food allergies . . . can be fatal," he said. "I feel that needs to be stressed." He said the University of Maryland's department of entomology's "Cicada-licious" cookbook contains a disclaimer urging people to consult a doctor before eating cicadas.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 10:34 am
Hahahahaha, I was going to say that only Tess and I could have a rousing discussion of entomology etymology, but now I see Rupertbear has jumped in for a piece of the excitement. Uhhhhhhhhhh ... doesn't GAL and therefore Colossus by inference, live in Bloomington, IN? Maybe just close by. Maybe it wasn't Colossus who overindulged on the sauteed cicadas.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 10:41 am
Hee hee....gotta keep ya on yer toes there, Juju ;) (hug)
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