cicadas

Researchers and bug enthusiasts are cooking up cicadas as sweet snacks or pizza toppings this summer. Some hope cicadas will help entomophagy – the practice of eating insects – catch on.

Starting in late April, two major broods of cicadas will crawl out of the soil and head to treetops to sing and mate — the first time they've emerged at the same time in more than 200 years.

Every 13 years, Brood XIX emerges from the soil across nearly all of Missouri in late April or May.

Entomologists are predicting a noisy summer in Missouri as two broods of long-living cicadas emerge.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a batch that…