Food Eating Cicadas

Food Eating Cicadas

FILE – A cicada peers over a ledge in Chapel Hill, N.C., on May 11, 2011. Swarms of the red-eyed bugs reemerging after 17 years below ground offer a chance for home cooks to turn the tables: making the cicadas into snacks. Full of protein, gluten-free, low-fat and low-carb, cicadas were used as a food source by Native Americans and are still eaten by humans in many countries. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)