The 2024 explosion of cicadas didn’t happen here in North Texas. This was going to be a once in a lifetime event. A coincidence of thirteen-year and seventeen-year broods that hasn’t occurred since Thomas Jefferson fretted over pests in his Monticello gardens. Maybe it has been a bigger deal in the upper Midwest where the bugs were expected to darken the skies. If broods XIX and XIII have made national news or the viralverse, I don’t know about it.I did come across cicada recipes published in anticipation of the bumper crop of bugs. Some thoughts on the cicada as a food and on cicadas in general...

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