Ohio restaurant assessments out pizza topped with cicadas in tasting panel
Up to date: 9:56 PM CDT Jun 13, 2023
WASHINGTON. LISA, HOW ARE YOU DOING? SALI: FIRST OF ALL, I’M DOING OK. I’M A LITETL WARY BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW WHEN I’M GOING TO GET ATTACKED, BUT LISTEN TO THIS. THAT IS JUST CRAZY. I MEAN, THESE THINGS HAVE ATTACKED ME. THEY HAVE FLOWN INTO MY FACE, MY HEAD. THEY HAVE CHASED ME AROUND ALL DAY. THE OTHER NIGHT, ONE FOLLOWED ME TO BED. FIRST I HEARD IT. THEN I SAWT. I I GOT IN MY CLOTHES SO FAST HE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT I WAS ON FIRE. THIS IS LAL ABOUT TO END, BUT NOT SOON ENOUGH. >> IT IS CICASAD GONE WILD, BUT THEY ARE TEENAGERS. THEY ARE 17 YEARS OLD. IT IS THEIR DAY IN THE SUN. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF CRAZY ROMANCE IN THE TREES. LI SA: THE BUG GUY, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ENTOMOLOGIST DR. MIKE RAUPP, SAYS RIGHT NOW THE CICADAS ARE FLYINGVE ERYWHERE. >> ALL THE FEMALES HAVE BEEN IMPREGNATED. THEY ARE MOVING TO TREES TO LAY THEIR EGGS. THEY WILBEL FLYING THROUGH THE PLACES WHERE THEY FOUND THEIR MATES, TO SMALL TREES AND OTHER VEGETATION WHERE THEY WILL THEN LAY THEIR EGGS. LISA: SOME PEOPLE SAY ALL THE ACTIVITY AND NOISE DOESN’’ BOTHER THEM. >> GOT A LITTLE BABY AND SOMETIMES THEY WILL FLY INTO THE STROLLER AND GET ON HER, BUT SHE DOES NOT SEEM TO MIND. LISA: THIS WOMAN SA SYSHE TRAVELLED 50 MILES TO EXPERIENCE THIS PART OF NATURE. >> THE SOUND IS STRANGE BUT SORT OF INVITING FOR ME. IT’S LIKE — I’M FROM PENNSYLVANIA. IT IS REALLY RARE FOR ME. I’M ENJOYING IT. LISA: BUT OTHERS ARE NOT. THEY’RE DONE. >> THEY JUST KIND OF KNOCK INTO YOU. THEY DON’T SEEM TO GET OUT OF YOUR WAY IF YOU ARE TRYING TO STEP ON THEM. THE MOST ANNOYING THING IS I THKIN WHEN THE SOUND GETS REAL LOUD AND YOU CANNOT EVEN WALK OUTSIDE. IT IS TIME FOR TM HETO GO BACK IN THE GROUND. >> THEY FLY IN YOUR FACE. I WAS WORKING AND ONE THROUGH — FLEW INTMYO CHEEK AND I HAD MY MASK LIKE THIS AND IT GOT CAUGHT IN MY MASK. LISA: DID YOU TAKE OFF RUNNING? >> I DID A LITTLE JIG. LI:SA OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, YOU WILL NOTICE THEM DYING OUT, AND DRIVEWAYS AND SIDEWALKS WILL RESEMBLE A BATTLEGROD.UN >> THIS IS ALL GOING TO BEGIN TO SETTLE DOWN THE LATER TWO MONTHS OF JUNE. BY THE FOURTH OF JULY, SADLY OR MAYBE HAPPILY, THE CICADAS WILL BE GONE FOR ANOTHER 17 YEARS. LISA: IF YOU THOUGHT IT SEEMED LIKE THERE ARE A LOT MORE CICADAS THIS TIME AROUND, YOU ARE RIT.GH RAUPP SAYS THE POPULATION IN MARYLAND IS HIGHER THAN IN 2004 –ND A GET — GUESS WHY? HE SAYS BECAUSE THE HABITAT FOR CICADAS IN MARYLAND IMPROVED. ANWHD ILE YOU ARE IN THE STORY, FLEW INTO MY HEAD.
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Ohio restaurant assessments out pizza topped with cicadas in tasting panel
Up to date: 9:56 PM CDT Jun 13, 2023
Video above: Entomologist explains when cicadas will lastly leaveThose aren’t olives…An Ohio restaurant appears to have discovered a use for the Brood X cicadas pestering elements of the Midwest. The Pizza Bandit in Dayton examined out a Spicy Thai Cicada Pie.Sure, that is a pizza with cicadas on it.Earlier than you get too excited — or repulsed — know that the restaurant isn’t promoting cicada-topped pizzas. In a Fb submit displaying off the brand new creation, the enterprise famous, “We’re not even certain if we legally can promote you regionally foraged Cicadas.”The restaurant did livestream a tasting panel attempting out the pizza, which additionally featured miso hoisin sriracha sauce, mozzarella, provolone, mushrooms, cabbage, inexperienced onion, mango, cilantro and a spicy Thai sauce.”Opinions of the pizza vary from completely scrumptious to…properly…uh…yeah…,” the Fb submit mentioned.
Video above: Entomologist explains when cicadas will lastly go away
These aren’t olives…
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An Ohio restaurant appears to have discovered a use for the Brood X cicadas pestering elements of the Midwest. The Pizza Bandit in Dayton examined out a Spicy Thai Cicada Pie.
Sure, that is a pizza with cicadas on it.
Earlier than you get too excited — or repulsed — know that the restaurant isn’t promoting cicada-topped pizzas. In a Fb submit displaying off the brand new creation, the enterprise famous, “We’re not even certain if we legally can promote you regionally foraged Cicadas.”
The restaurant did livestream a tasting panel attempting out the pizza, which additionally featured miso hoisin sriracha sauce, mozzarella, provolone, mushrooms, cabbage, inexperienced onion, mango, cilantro and a spicy Thai sauce.
“Opinions of the pizza vary from completely scrumptious to…properly…uh…yeah…,” the Fb submit mentioned.
