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Bon appétit! How to eat cicadas in 5 easy steps

Dine on summer's biggest insect delicacy!

by Sarah Wells
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Photo Credit: Bridget Sutton

After a 17-year underground slumber, periodical cicada Brood X is finally making its way out to the light.

It is also pretty tasty.

Photo Credit: Bridget Sutton

These cicadas have suckled on tree root juices for years.

Now they’re interested in one thing only: noisily mating and then dying immediately.

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