Thu.May 13, 2021

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How to celebrate 17-year cicadas – eat one!

Academy of Natural Sciences

I tasted Brood 2 back in 2013, and they tasted remarkably like pistachios. Isa Betancourt is a Curatorial Assistant of Entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences who first tasted and called cicadas “Shrimp of the land” back in 2013 when Brood II emerged. How do cicadas taste? They taste rather nutty.

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