Some University of Colorado Cicada pages: Large list of Cicada Genus and species and Cicada Fossils.
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A new location for the Brisbane Bugs site.
If stragglers do arrive, it could be any time between the first week of May and the first week of June. I believe the first sighting last year happened between May 1st and May 11th.
From a Courier-Journal article titled Invasion of the straggers! by Mark Coomes:
Alas, some Brood X cicadas slept through the coming-out party and next month will launch another invasion of the body hatchers. But you might not even notice.
From a Southern Voice article titled Eatin’ of the Green by George Oliver:
If you think crabs and lobsters are delicious, and you’re not turned off by the way they look, then you have no right to gasp at a sautéed cicada on your plate.
Do you think that the first person in beachside cooking history looked at a crab scurrying across a sand bar and said “yum”? No, he probably said, “ohmagod, what a hideous beast, with way too many legs and dirty, unfashionable armor.”
If he was gay, he might have also mused on its possible use as a campy cave latrine decoration. If he then decided it might be good to eat, he was either very adventurous or very hungry.
Now in the interest of full disclosure, I haven’t actually eaten a cicada yet, so I had to go online to see what cooking techniques are recommended. I suspected that, like with crabs and lobsters, a mature creature might be too hard, but how do you crack a cicada, and is there much to eat inside?
From An article in the Kentcky Post:
Small pockets of the bugs will emerge this summer a year behind schedule, according to cicada expert Gene Kritsky, a biology professor at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Delhi Township, Ohio.
“We call them off-cycle cicada stragglers,” he said. “They’re like guys that got their Palm Pilots wrong.”
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