By Eric Scott:
The Cicada is called (by some entomologists) "the shrimp of the land." As they emerge from the ground by the billions, if you can't beat 'em, EAT 'em!
Listen, don't read this while you're eating. Come back when you've finished though. It's just that reading about parboiling insects might have a negative effect on your appetite. See, the 17-year cicadas have already started to emerge from the ground, and there are going to be billions of them. BILLIONS. So, you may as well eat some, right?
While spring usually brings pretty flowers, it's also a time when thousands of homeowners will discover that they've been playing host to colonies of termites.
War has been declared on the stink bug in New Jersey to the tune of 2.7 million dollars in federal funding announced by U.S. Senators Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez. The research will be conducted at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University.