Cicadas - Land Shrimp?

[Quillback]

No matter how tasty those who eat bugs try and make it sound, I just could not eat one of these things.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Cicadas-The-Shrimp-of-The-Land-206945321.html

[Feathers and Fins]

Ok I have ate some strange things and know ive ate some stuff I don't want to really know what it was.... but that is not passing these lips!

[jdmidwest]

I think the bulk of them will be east of us this year. Too bad, I still have a box of those flys ready for the next big hatch.

[ozark trout fisher]

I think the bulk of them will be east of us this year. Too bad, I still have a box of those flys ready for the next big hatch.

Yeah, I'm bummed about that too. They make that horrible, piercing noise for half the spring/summer but it's well worth it. I've never seen a "hatch" that drove the bass and bluegill more crazy...Just about any popping bug or foam beetle in existence would keep you in business.

[Jack Jones]

I used this article to help prove to my 4 yr old boy that yes, sometimes people eat bugs. I also told him that since we're going back east this year for vacation, we may end up having them for dinner one night.....He's sufficiently freaked.

What good's having children if you can't traumatize them from time to time.....