The Ultimate Guide to Eating Cicadas
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Can you eat cicadas?
01:19 - Why should you eat cicadas?
01:48 - The ethics of eating periodical cicadas
06:15 - Sustainable harvest of cicadas
07:51 - Are cicadas harmful to plants?
08:33 - Watch this disclaimer!
08:57 - When to find cicadas
10:04 - How to find cicadas to eat
11:39 - The right stage to gather them (do not skip this part)
13:29 - Do cicadas bite?
13:53 - Can you eat cicadas raw?
14:21 - The ethics of cooking cicadas
15:14 - How to cook cicadas
16:40 - An extremely important takeaway!
17:44 - My reaction to eating cicadas for the first time!
18:26 - Gratitude to cicadas
Attributions
iNat - https://www.inaturalist.org/home
Cicadas breeding - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Laying eggs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:17...
Predator satiation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predato...
Map with Missouri - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Brood XIX - https://cicadas.uconn.edu/brood_19/
Active broods USDA - https://www.fs.usda.gov/foresthealth/...
Missouri agriculture - https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/...
Missouri forest - https://mdc.mo.gov/trees-plants/fores...
The Missourians - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042741/
Autorevolution - https://www.autoevolution.com/news/ca...
Entomophagy - https://www.britannica.com/topic/ento...
Wild turkey - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Use as human food - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodi...
FDA food defects - https://www.fda.gov/food/current-good...
Threat to crops - https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/co...
Garden Locust - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Locust damage - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Insect allergy - https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/hea...
Tropomyosin - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Emergence temperature - https://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov/monitoring-...
Co-emergence - https://cicadas.uconn.edu/
Cicada fungus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ci...
Cicada dangers - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...
References:
Cicada nutrition - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Cicada ecology - https://www.annualreviews.org/content...
Insect sustainability - https://link.springer.com/article/10....
Cicada mating - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28743...
Prime number - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...
Cicada fungal pathogen - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31768...
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