Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Tasty Treat


Have you heard about the 17-year cicadas that are invading the Great Lake states of Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan? They come in swarms...billions of them! They have been underground at the base of trees for the past 17 years and they climb out and quickly shed their skin, grow wings, mate, lay eggs and then die within the course of about 2 weeks. In some areas of Chicago people have to use snow shovels to get rid of the hoards of cicadas! Our friend Steve and his daughter, Violet, dared each other to eat live cicadas and you can view the results of their attempt by clicking here. I guess they taste a bit like peanut butter.

1 comment:

kristin said...

i am so not surprised.

very funny.