Once more, for people with a shellfish allergy, entomophagy is likely not safe for you! This is explained more in the video. This was the first video that I’ve ever made on a subject like this, which I feel is relatively foraging-adjacent. I have no idea if I’ll ever make another, so let me know if this subject is of interest to you! Thank you all so much for watching. 🙏 Calculations: I was concerned that 1 million per acre was too high an average, so I ran several more calculations with more conservative estimates. No matter how I adjusted the numbers, realistically, the impacts from human consumption continued to come out as effectively negligible.
Kinda related to the topic of this video: Do you have any resources on foraging and eating clams? Specifically, the invasive Asian clams that clog up our creeks and rivers. I've foraged some before, but it's been a long time, and I didn't really know what I was doing anyway. If you don't have anything, that's alright. I appreciate it anyway, and I will keep trying to learn.
Exactly. Only crabs and shrimp and lobsters are bottom feeders eating stuff that they are there to clean up. Cicadas are feeding on nice clean tree root sap.
Its not just those with shellfish allergies that have to be careful. If you have dust mite allergies you also cant eat these or crickets etc as the same allergin for dust mites are also in those other bugs.
@LGrian so you'll feed literal roaches to your reptiles but not krickets? gee your soooo smart Dubia roaches totally don't carry more diseases than krickets😒
Lots of poor people ate lobster, and they soon became rarer and rarer. This brought the price of lobster up, making the aristocrats suddenly love this poor man's fish.
When I was growing up on the Gulf coast of Texas in the 1960s, if you wanted to feed a big crowd you got shrimp, 'cause they were so cheap. Or you caught a whole lotta crawdads.
The reason people hated them was because they rot in like two days and you have to remove the poop tube at their back with a knife before cooking. No one had a way to freeze them 300 years ago
As a former biology teacher. I had a day where we ate insect and grub worms. Kids didn’t HAVE to eat them but the BONUS POINTS were very attractive so the very students who would probably not eat them at least tried. still get students who hit me up n tell me it was the most memorable of the class. I also had reptiles in class n other animals. So that’s saying something. We raised a bath of orphaned opossums another hit. Boy we had fun.
My 9th grade biology teacher also had a bug day. There was a cicada brood that came out that year and she brought in a tray for us all to try. I'm glad for the exposure
When I was a kid, my dad fried up a few cicadas and cut them into little pieces for us to try. They were like eating Baco fake bacon bits. Pretty good, as far as I remember, so if I manage to find any as fresh as you mention I will try it again, now 30 years later. I do remember him picking one straight off the tree out of its exoskeleton. I wonder where he got his knowledge of them back before the internet 🤔
@@gracequalls9770You need to thank your mother, that because of her oral traditions, you didn’t have as many siblings as you might have had to share your sh@t with😂
I've tried them several times and thought that once you get passed what you're eating, they taste great. I had them fried in butter and salt, delicious
It would personally take me a while to get over the ick factor before eating bugs But I'm definitely fascinated and would love to see you make more vids about bugs
Pro tip, if you aren't sure about how quickly you can get to processing them, and/or have the patience to wait, collecting the nymphs can be a great way to get the least tough cicadas to eat. Just wait at home for each to molt and reach the desired stage before cooking. Bonus shells for compost. Other side of this coin: if you gather teneral cicadas and find some have already darkened too much by the time you get them home, let them finish hardening safely indoors then release to maybe introduce more cicadas to your neighborhood for the next time!
Jesse, this was fantastic. I applaud your hard work, research, editing, and speed with getting this published. I have enjoyed seeing your channel grow over time. Keep up the awesome work.
They look like theyd go good with sweet potatoes, rosemary, garlic, white rice... Tempura the lil guys with some okra and dip them in a spicy sweet mint sauce. It's just some tree shrimps.
I knew a guy who's mom would send him out with his brother and a BB gun to bring home as many as they could. His mom would pull out what he described as a white ball of meat from inside the exoskeleton. She would drop this into the soup she was making. My friend said it was delicious.
I’m genuinely surprised by the number of nay sayers on a channel all about foraging and eating sustainably. Awesome presentation, informative from beginning to end. You’re always doing your best for the community so thank you!
That's so cool! I don't live in cicada area, but I want to try some if I'm given the chance someday. I've been following your channel for a bit now, and it's so helpful with my foraging journey! You post videos right as stuff gets ripe in my area and I'm having tons of fun! Don't worry about all the people commenting negatively, more interaction with your video means more people will see it!
The first time I ate a softshell crab sandwich it looked strange with it's feet, (claws and such), hanging out the side of the bread. The waitress saw my distress and she told me, "Just don't look at it, close your eyes and bite down on it, Honey." I did as I was told and it was good. The same could be said about this culinary delight.
Why are so many people announcing your aversions to insects? Loads of people hate mushroom and leafy greens, yet I’ve never seen comments like the ones here. It feels almost political. Bizarre.
Yeah the “government wants to force us to eat bugs so anything related to the topic must be part of their psy-op” crowd is here lol. It’s hard to express how silly this is on so many fronts. But hopefully folks can appreciate Jesse providing awesome foraging content!
It probably is political for some people. For me though I don't think of insects as food. I get a deeply uncomfortable repulsive reaction to the though of chewing on bugs. Very different from just not enjoying certain foods. I can't help it and honestly I don't want to change that. I am fascinated that a lot of people don't seem to feel this way though.
Since Western society stopped eating bugs, it's become thought of as "primitive", "poor", "foreign" in the US. Also note the converse: red meat is conceived as masculine and American. As the climate crisis intensifies, there's pressure to change the status quo (Americans consuming ridiculous amounts of meat) as the ecological impacts of animal agriculture are obvious. Many right-wing people feel threatened by this. Over time, internet discourse (largely on 4chan) evolved from "the leftists want us to eat bugs, I'm never giving up my steak" to a full-blown conspiracy theory that "global elites" want to enslave the masses and make them eat bugs. Hence the phrase "I will not eat the bugs" actually containing more meaning, being coded speech expressing support of this concept without saying it explicitly (similar to "let's go Brandon") TL;DR: it's highly political due to a right-wing narrative that "the other" (leftists/shadow government/whoever) wants to force them to eat insects
I've read of people eating Locusts in the bible. Have wondered if they were eating Cicadas and we just use the diffremt name now. I've eaten mealworms and crickets. Both are eas to raise and, for those who are squeemish, dehydrating, grinding into a power and cooking into soups works.
I raise crickets for that purpose on my property. I don't eat a lot of regular meats, a texture thing, but if crickets are dehydrated and ground down, they don't taste bad and it adds a lot of protein to dishes. My crickets are mostly fed table scraps (onions peels, potato peels, occasional carrot tops, stuff like that).
Different continents. They were talking about locust. Eating locust used to be extremely common worldwide and there's even a species that disappeared from excessive harvest though some people speculate it changed its behavior based on environmental factors rather than straight up going extinct, that's a question we probably won't be able to answer. That said locust are more labor-intensive to prepare than cicadas.
I spent a lot of time in China from 2015 - 2018, I've eaten things that most western folks would gag at the thought of eating, and I absolutely loved it. Food is so cheap and fresh in China.
Found in GA lowland forest emerging around American Sycamore, Sweetgum, Maple, and River Birch. Adult form seen feeding on a young Sweetgum. The Sycamore did have a massive poison Ivy vine over 2 inches in diameter growing on it. Hundreds scrambled to cling to this vine causing the leaves and branches to sag. Not sure if it was just a coincidence or if they were attracted to it.
While I personally hope to never HAVE to eat ANY bugs...I'm not naive enough to know we may one day not have a choice...Especially, the poor. I loved the video (I did have to look away when you stuck them in the boiling water...and I grew up watching my uncles fry frog legs...anyone who has seen that, knows what I mean lol, but absolutely LOVE frog legs!). With that being said...I'd prefer harvesting my own than to be tricked in to what is trying to be pushed on us by sneaking it in to our food...which they're already doing! Looks like I may be the minority here...but I appreciated the info and would enjoy similar ever so often.
Exactly. 100% agree with what you’ve said here. I used to live in Latin America and have tried crickets before, and I’m honestly not bothered by the taste. And I also don’t mind the idea of willingly supplementing with bugs to get protein. What I absolutely do mind, is that certain elites are pushing for a two-tier system where rich people can eat whatever they want, and poor people have to be deprived of heme-iron rich foods like beef, while they sneak bugs into our products and pretend that’s not what they’re doing when they’ve already been caught. I also have to question whether said bugs are the same natural bugs you and I can get in our yards, or GMO bugs that they’re using to force something else on us like they tried to do a few years ago. Something really strange and creepy is happening on the societal level. I don’t have a weird superiority complex about bug eating, I’ve had it before, but I don’t like the direction things are going in the world.
I've had one before. I put some lemon pepper seasoning and roasted it in the oven. It was crunchy, kinda like bacon a little. I've got my calendar set for the next cicada harvest in my region in Northeast Ohio
Nice video dude. I've never seen the dark cicadas before, they're green where I grew up with them. I was really excited when I heard the cicadas would be in bloom this year, I grew up pruning trees in W. Texas and one day I realized that I hadn't seen nor heard a cicada in years.. I saw one the other day and it was a surprisingly nostalgic moment, took me back to the treetops as a kid accidentally planting a hand on one and having it go off like some kind of demented car alarm..😂
I prefer my cicadas fried and then dipped in chocolate. You can sprinkle some sea salt on top or large granular sugar before the chocolate firms up. . Place on a wax paper lined baking sheet and freeze then bag.
I'd love to see some more in-depth cicada-cookery! Also, it sounds like you're planning on trying some other types of invertebrates. I've had crickets and earthworms in the past, and found them both enjoyable; I'd love to see your forays in this regard.
Just recently found out it was the locust Bean that grew in that region, not an actual insect. 🤯 I always wondered about that too, how wild honey and bugs would be enough to sustain a grown man all year long:)
One of the most important food sources for bears in some areas is moth larvae. Apparently it's essential for their ability to put on enough weight for the winter. If I remember correctly those same bears will rip apart bee hives to get the larvea and the honey, too. If that kind of thing is so important to bears I would think it could sustain a human too. @@Di17227
thank you for your work, eating insects just makes so much more sense than mass farming meat. it's insane how adverse US culture is to eating insects. we could make such a big difference and be way healthier man
I would be very interested in more videos on the topic. Multiple cultures practice this. It should totally be normalised. We need more options, even if it's not for everyone. Especially in a survival situation eating bugs is the best bet for many people. Hunting can be hard and dangerous - you need skill and tools - this is easy! Thanks a lot!
Totally agree! We really need to catch up on what a lot of people already know: Insects are a delicious, nutritious, sustainable, and ethical source of food!
There's indigenous tribes that would eat people after they passed away as part of their rituals. I think many of us are just so far down the line of "don't eat bugs, don't eat people, etc" that it would be a pretty big mental hang up to get over. I love meat but if it came down to it I'd go vegan and just stick to plants if necessary.
@@katie7748 How much thought did you put into the connection between cicadas and cats and dogs? Just wondering, like, how much time you spent, because I really hope it was under 5 seconds.
Too late. He was arrested at his home in Switzerland. Delta squad got him while he was in bed hooked up to a machine giving him an IV drip of that "A" word. The darkness will come to light ✨️
I've been seeing tons of them gathered on the red maples planted around my apartment building. They weren't burrowed there but they are gathering there.
We found a ton around the Logan Martin Lake in Lincoln AL. There were 2 trees they were flying all around them, one was a mulberry, one was a fallen log that was at the bottom of the 2 trees, I was so excited to find a mulberry, I didn't think to find out what the other tree was. But my son wants to try to eat one.😊😮
As long as your not forcing or tricking people into eating them, or hiding information about them (like the pathogins), and not trying to get rid of farm animals or hunting, then be my guest :) This was a very interesting video, and good information. Thank you.
@@FriendOrFoe. True enough, doesn't mean you can just waver any negatives of bugs though. And is anyone forcing you to eat crab and lobster, and saying you can't eat cicadas?
@@elijahsanders3547 nobody is forcing people to eat bugs I first ate bugs when I went camping with my dad we got roasted crickets covered in cheese powerd to me they were just weird chips not bad at all lobster and crab was considered gross poor people food back in the day now its considered fancy rich people food just saying things change you can still eat steak and shit like that humans have been eating bugs for thousands of years - leviticus 11 "you may eat any kind of locust Katy did or grasshopper" John the Baptist was known to eat locust and honey
@@FriendOrFoe. I'm ok with people eating bugs if they want to, and yes, John The Baptist did eat wild locasts. But based on my understanding, globalists do want people to eat bugs, and don't want them eating beef (and quite honestly, it's none of their business, and their agendas seem to usually do more harm than good in my opinion). I'm not sure, but it could be being used as an additive as well. And farmers have been being targeted over the last few years with government overreach.
Locusts aren’t “closely related” to grasshoppers. They *are* grasshoppers. When there is an abundance of edible plant material for them, their populations grow. Physical contact with each other boost serotonin levels in grasshoppers. Serotonin causes the change to locust. The more grasshoppers there are, the more they bump into each other. The more they bump into each other, the more serotonin is released. The more serotonin released, the more likely the next generation will become locusts. Those locusts are more active, more aggressive, and more destructive to plants.
It’s best to ignore these people but here’s the background: Krause Schwab is the president of The World Economic Forum. The WEF made sustainable protein sources a part of their goals. The group is big on combatting climate change and world hunger (as they fly private and eat steaks). I totally understand disliking these rich, pretentious hypocrites BUT it’s super silly that so many people suddenly think ANY reference to eating bugs is some paid propaganda campaign. I hope most normal people can just appreciate the great info in the video.
@@katie7748 you do realize that people can just, like, enjoy how they taste, yes? not everything is about some guy nobody knows about saying people should eat bugs
Yeah normally I’m all for telling the WEF to go to hell, but I think there is a notable difference between a foraging TH-camr saying “here’s a great source of protein you can exploit” and a massive international organization with ambitions to be a governing body saying “you will live in the pod, eat zee bugs, and own nothing and be happy”
The WEF doesn't just want you eating bugs, they want you eating their bugs to make them millions. I would imagine they hate the idea of you going out and harvesting your own, since they hate anything that makes you self sufficient.
@eugenetswong When I was vegan, for 6 years, and bought products online, I'd always see questions involving bugs in food from vegans. It's funny how now vegans seem to be okay with bugs being on the menu, if only as a replacement for meat... Funny how things change. Best wishes!
@@HeroBComplex We don't want it for ourselves. It's very logical. At 1 time, they might have been concerned about bits in grains, but many don't care anymore, since it means less suffering. A few thousand accidental bugs vs. millions of deliberate mammals, right?
@@eugenetswong Insects are alive just as much as any other animal. Accidental insect deaths are fine, but more insect deaths for the purpose of consumption isn't better than eating a cow or a chicken. Why? Because you'd be killing way more animals in order to sustain people at the same level of calories. Knowingly eating a bug or a cow is the same in terms of 1 life = 1 life, neither one's more moral than the other, but you'd have to kill a lot of bugs to equal a cow. I was vegan for over 6 years and ate as balanced and clean as possible, but as time went on I had way less energy and found myself being way too sensitive to everything. I'm okay with veganity, obviously I was one, it just wasn't something my body could handle. Best wishes all the same on your path ahead!
@@HeroBComplexI wasn't advocating before you on the goal of eating insects. Eating insects causes less harm in the environment. They definitely suffer less, when you can kill them easily. You have a interesting point about less lives per calorie, but it's not good enough. Some lives do have more value. Maybe you should try the vegan diets that competitive vegan athletes use.
This is so cool! I've had crickets before and they're delicious, so I really want to try this. I'm a vegetarian, but just for ethics reasons. Things like hunted or foraged food doesn't bother me in the slightest.
Klaus was removed from his home in Switzerland, in which a gun fight broke out. Klaus had around 30 body guards too. Delta squad took at least one casualty but completed the job. When they got to him, he was in bed hooked up to a machine with an IV drip of that "A" word. The darkness will come to light ✨️ Salem 💚💙💜
That's funny...I don't eat plants...nope! LOL..I'd eat weird stuff too if nothing else. We are overdue for a massive CME...no power grid! We may sample a bug or two before it's over! But I do LOVE ANIMALS (some taste really good too) If no one has your back...bug out with jerky and kraut.
@@michaelhart8288You might very well be right because while I was vegan, 6 years, I'd convince myself over and over that I was healthier than when I ate meat. I was wrong, even though I ate a balanced diet I got weaker and weaker. I finally caved and am in better shape than I ever was as a vegan. It may work for some but not for me... Best wishes!
@@crocodilopolisexcuse me? Are you assuming I don’t eat them? I NEVER said I don’t eat them. So before you attack my comment, get your facts straight first.
Imagine being this angry and announcing your unsubbing over this, that doesn't even affect you. I'm seeing all these dudes being squeamish, so far none of them women. Just dudes throwing tantrums.
That is an amazing video! And a very pleasant surprise. I would love to see more videos about cicadas and other insects. Maybe some clamps and stuff like that, as somebody already mentioned in the comments. That is a fascinating subject and a fairly empty niche in the TH-cam foraging. Thank you for your hard work and great content. And as for the all of the aholes in the comments, well engagement is engagement, I don't think the algorithm really cares what the comments actually says.
@@Veheloth, so what you're saying is that we currently live in a utopia where people have and have had humanities best interests always at the forefront... Eschewing personal, political, financial, deviant, and megalomaniacal interests
Up until now I have always avoided eating insects or even just trying. However, those deep fried ones looked pretty good so if the timing is just right then I just might have a go at preparing some.
Very interesting theory! The larvae feed off of plant roots, while the adults feed off of tree trunks. While you can't guarantee that the ones you're gathering have been feeding off of the roots of the trees they're climbing on, I'm very curious to see if ones gathered from one area tastes different from another.
cant say anything for cicadas but crickets, wasp larva & flying ants were really good(rural NE Thailand). I sought them out on my own, not just eating them as a good guest.
Real reality. Bugs are not food for human kind. If some choose to eat bugs, does absolutely not mean I have to. Common sense. Besides that, what about any food allergies, now that cricket powder is being added to food under the guise of some other name. Best cook and bake at home, from simple one ingredient items.
@@joaquinmurrieta8912 this is false and disproven years ago human gastric juices contain chitinase the enzyme that dissolves chitin. If there was a problem with eating insect we would already have seen it happening within the current existing cultures that eat insects regularly.
Once more, for people with a shellfish allergy, entomophagy is likely not safe for you! This is explained more in the video. This was the first video that I’ve ever made on a subject like this, which I feel is relatively foraging-adjacent. I have no idea if I’ll ever make another, so let me know if this subject is of interest to you!
Thank you all so much for watching. 🙏
Calculations: I was concerned that 1 million per acre was too high an average, so I ran several more calculations with more conservative estimates. No matter how I adjusted the numbers, realistically, the impacts from human consumption continued to come out as effectively negligible.
Maybe do some reading about anti nutrients 🤷
Kinda related to the topic of this video: Do you have any resources on foraging and eating clams? Specifically, the invasive Asian clams that clog up our creeks and rivers. I've foraged some before, but it's been a long time, and I didn't really know what I was doing anyway. If you don't have anything, that's alright. I appreciate it anyway, and I will keep trying to learn.
Disgusting.
@@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617 wuss.
Jk you do what you want.
But their sad little eyes? How could you? 😢
I actually really liked this video. They lowkey look pretty good where normally a lot of bugs would not.
The soft shell crabs of the insect world.
Exactly. Only crabs and shrimp and lobsters are bottom feeders eating stuff that they are there to clean up. Cicadas are feeding on nice clean tree root sap.
But don't eat if you have a shellfish allergy.
@@anyascelticcreations great point!
Bro, that was *EXACTLY* what I was thinking.
Basically. You can actually eat the more mature ones it's just more preparation.
Its not just those with shellfish allergies that have to be careful. If you have dust mite allergies you also cant eat these or crickets etc as the same allergin for dust mites are also in those other bugs.
Finally, someone with some sense
@@Huntress_Raven its pretty common sense that you shouldnt eat something you are allgeric to.
Finally I have an excuse for my aversion to crickets. They just gross me tf out. I refuse to feed them to my reptiles but have no problem with Dubia
Thank you for sharing this!
@LGrian so you'll feed literal roaches to your reptiles but not krickets? gee your soooo smart Dubia roaches totally don't carry more diseases than krickets😒
Shrimp are bugs, sea bugs. Fisherman hated them, sold them to farmers for fertilizer. Same as lobsters, poor people's food.
Lots of poor people ate lobster, and they soon became rarer and rarer. This brought the price of lobster up, making the aristocrats suddenly love this poor man's fish.
When I was growing up on the Gulf coast of Texas in the 1960s, if you wanted to feed a big crowd you got shrimp, 'cause they were so cheap. Or you caught a whole lotta crawdads.
I hate shrimp. Dont think id like it lol
The reason people hated them was because they rot in like two days and you have to remove the poop tube at their back with a knife before cooking. No one had a way to freeze them 300 years ago
it used to be prison food lol
As a former biology teacher. I had a day where we ate insect and grub worms. Kids didn’t HAVE to eat them but the BONUS POINTS were very attractive so the very students who would probably not eat them at least tried. still get students who hit me up n tell me it was the most memorable of the class. I also had reptiles in class n other animals. So that’s saying something. We raised a bath of orphaned opossums another hit. Boy we had fun.
Would love to have had you as my teacher. Probably wouldn't have eaten the grubs though. Lol.
My 9th grade biology teacher also had a bug day. There was a cicada brood that came out that year and she brought in a tray for us all to try. I'm glad for the exposure
As a kid, I made some other kids eats bugs on playground. I can only imagine that they have similarly fond memories
@@mirzamay bet I could have gotten you to taste them.
@@zeroisnine lol
When I was a kid, my dad fried up a few cicadas and cut them into little pieces for us to try. They were like eating Baco fake bacon bits. Pretty good, as far as I remember, so if I manage to find any as fresh as you mention I will try it again, now 30 years later. I do remember him picking one straight off the tree out of its exoskeleton. I wonder where he got his knowledge of them back before the internet 🤔
👍👍. Cool mart Dad! 👃✌️🇨🇦. (smart) oops.... 🥰
We've lost so many oral traditions, always ask your elders questions
@@gracequalls9770You need to thank your mother, that because of her oral traditions, you didn’t have as many siblings as you might have had to share your sh@t with😂
From the same people who put it on the internet
I've tried them several times and thought that once you get passed what you're eating, they taste great.
I had them fried in butter and salt, delicious
It would personally take me a while to get over the ick factor before eating bugs
But I'm definitely fascinated and would love to see you make more vids about bugs
Yes more entymophogy(?) videos please!!!!!!!!
@@rachellestringer entomophagy!
Pro tip, if you aren't sure about how quickly you can get to processing them, and/or have the patience to wait, collecting the nymphs can be a great way to get the least tough cicadas to eat. Just wait at home for each to molt and reach the desired stage before cooking. Bonus shells for compost.
Other side of this coin: if you gather teneral cicadas and find some have already darkened too much by the time you get them home, let them finish hardening safely indoors then release to maybe introduce more cicadas to your neighborhood for the next time!
The shells are an important ingredient in Chinese medicine, you can use them as herbal tea.
Good idea just don't move them too far from where you get them please.
@@joey3291 that makes sense. They always smelled weirdly sweet.
Cats: waay ahead of you.
I don't get it 💀
@@TavisoraDarkShadow_2013 cats like eating bugs...
actually in ancient China, cats were also named as "the cicada eater"
@@joey3291 ik but the joke is a bit rubbish if you ask me 💀
Jesse, this was fantastic. I applaud your hard work, research, editing, and speed with getting this published. I have enjoyed seeing your channel grow over time. Keep up the awesome work.
Thank you so much! Yes, it was a labor of love from beginning to end!
They look like theyd go good with sweet potatoes, rosemary, garlic, white rice...
Tempura the lil guys with some okra and dip them in a spicy sweet mint sauce. It's just some tree shrimps.
Yum 😋
"Tree shrimp" is wild
Tree shrimps haha 😂 You’re not wrong, people are flipping out over something people have eaten for a long time
Idk I think just frying them is best
Coming to your house for dinner. Your fault. 😂
Definitely goes hand in hand with foraging. We don't have periodic cicadas in my area, but I have dabbled with grasshoppers.
Everything wants to eat these things especially cats and fish but I have wondered a long time if they could be eaten by real humans. Great video!
I knew a guy who's mom would send him out with his brother and a BB gun to bring home as many as they could. His mom would pull out what he described as a white ball of meat from inside the exoskeleton. She would drop this into the soup she was making. My friend said it was delicious.
But why was a bb gun needed for gathering bugs
@@crocodilopolis stop other kids from gathering your cicadas
😂@@Missile_Crab
Well said man. We are nature. People forget about where we come from it blows my mind
I’m genuinely surprised by the number of nay sayers on a channel all about foraging and eating sustainably. Awesome presentation, informative from beginning to end. You’re always doing your best for the community so thank you!
Sounds like W.E.F. support to me
@@TherubbersluggchannelOh stop 🙄
@@mrjgilbertand who the f are you to tell me what to do?
@@Therubbersluggchannel you sound like you watch fox news
@@dr_spwewps you sound like a beta
That's so cool! I don't live in cicada area, but I want to try some if I'm given the chance someday.
I've been following your channel for a bit now, and it's so helpful with my foraging journey! You post videos right as stuff gets ripe in my area and I'm having tons of fun!
Don't worry about all the people commenting negatively, more interaction with your video means more people will see it!
My pup used to dig these up..she loved them
Im down for more of this. Its really useful information in a survival sense too. I'll try any food at least once
Thank you for mentioning the shellfish allergy. No one ever does, and it is really dangerous for this type of allergy.
The first time I ate a softshell crab sandwich it looked strange with it's feet, (claws and such), hanging out the side of the bread. The waitress saw my distress and she told me, "Just don't look at it, close your eyes and bite down on it, Honey." I did as I was told and it was good. The same could be said about this culinary delight.
Why are so many people announcing your aversions to insects? Loads of people hate mushroom and leafy greens, yet I’ve never seen comments like the ones here. It feels almost political. Bizarre.
Yeah the “government wants to force us to eat bugs so anything related to the topic must be part of their psy-op” crowd is here lol. It’s hard to express how silly this is on so many fronts. But hopefully folks can appreciate Jesse providing awesome foraging content!
Because of Klaus Schwab and the WEF
Latest attempt to distract credulous right wingers from the actual issues.
It probably is political for some people. For me though I don't think of insects as food. I get a deeply uncomfortable repulsive reaction to the though of chewing on bugs. Very different from just not enjoying certain foods. I can't help it and honestly I don't want to change that. I am fascinated that a lot of people don't seem to feel this way though.
Since Western society stopped eating bugs, it's become thought of as "primitive", "poor", "foreign" in the US. Also note the converse: red meat is conceived as masculine and American.
As the climate crisis intensifies, there's pressure to change the status quo (Americans consuming ridiculous amounts of meat) as the ecological impacts of animal agriculture are obvious. Many right-wing people feel threatened by this. Over time, internet discourse (largely on 4chan) evolved from "the leftists want us to eat bugs, I'm never giving up my steak" to a full-blown conspiracy theory that "global elites" want to enslave the masses and make them eat bugs. Hence the phrase "I will not eat the bugs" actually containing more meaning, being coded speech expressing support of this concept without saying it explicitly (similar to "let's go Brandon")
TL;DR: it's highly political due to a right-wing narrative that "the other" (leftists/shadow government/whoever) wants to force them to eat insects
I've read of people eating Locusts in the bible. Have wondered if they were eating Cicadas and we just use the diffremt name now. I've eaten mealworms and crickets. Both are eas to raise and, for those who are squeemish, dehydrating, grinding into a power and cooking into soups works.
I raise crickets for that purpose on my property. I don't eat a lot of regular meats, a texture thing, but if crickets are dehydrated and ground down, they don't taste bad and it adds a lot of protein to dishes. My crickets are mostly fed table scraps (onions peels, potato peels, occasional carrot tops, stuff like that).
Locust are eaten across the world. Taste like shrimp from what I hear
Different continents. They were talking about locust. Eating locust used to be extremely common worldwide and there's even a species that disappeared from excessive harvest though some people speculate it changed its behavior based on environmental factors rather than straight up going extinct, that's a question we probably won't be able to answer. That said locust are more labor-intensive to prepare than cicadas.
I used to play with them when I was a kid. I’ve handled thousands of them and I never got bitten.
Because these don't bite.
@@Agustina-ko4um exactly! 😊
I fed one to a praying mantis once
@@Cheese-is-its-own-food-groupwhat do you mean they don't bite one of them stuck that little mouth part into my arm and it hurt
@@SonofHermes7 same! 🤭🤪
"The wings, the legs...they don't bug me at all." They don't BUG you...hahaha! Nicely placed pun.
I spent a lot of time in China from 2015 - 2018, I've eaten things that most western folks would gag at the thought of eating, and I absolutely loved it. Food is so cheap and fresh in China.
How was that gutter oil 😂
Fresh and China is an oxymoron lol. Did you try the spit oil or the pee beer? How about the formaldehyde veggies or lymph node pork, mmmhmmm tasty.
Found in GA lowland forest emerging around American Sycamore, Sweetgum, Maple, and River Birch. Adult form seen feeding on a young Sweetgum. The Sycamore did have a massive poison Ivy vine over 2 inches in diameter growing on it. Hundreds scrambled to cling to this vine causing the leaves and branches to sag. Not sure if it was just a coincidence or if they were attracted to it.
While I personally hope to never HAVE to eat ANY bugs...I'm not naive enough to know we may one day not have a choice...Especially, the poor. I loved the video (I did have to look away when you stuck them in the boiling water...and I grew up watching my uncles fry frog legs...anyone who has seen that, knows what I mean lol, but absolutely LOVE frog legs!). With that being said...I'd prefer harvesting my own than to be tricked in to what is trying to be pushed on us by sneaking it in to our food...which they're already doing! Looks like I may be the minority here...but I appreciated the info and would enjoy similar ever so often.
Exactly. 100% agree with what you’ve said here. I used to live in Latin America and have tried crickets before, and I’m honestly not bothered by the taste. And I also don’t mind the idea of willingly supplementing with bugs to get protein. What I absolutely do mind, is that certain elites are pushing for a two-tier system where rich people can eat whatever they want, and poor people have to be deprived of heme-iron rich foods like beef, while they sneak bugs into our products and pretend that’s not what they’re doing when they’ve already been caught. I also have to question whether said bugs are the same natural bugs you and I can get in our yards, or GMO bugs that they’re using to force something else on us like they tried to do a few years ago. Something really strange and creepy is happening on the societal level. I don’t have a weird superiority complex about bug eating, I’ve had it before, but I don’t like the direction things are going in the world.
100% agree with you here, on both matters
They're not tricking anybody. They've been using insect and insect products in our food for decades
I've had one before. I put some lemon pepper seasoning and roasted it in the oven. It was crunchy, kinda like bacon a little. I've got my calendar set for the next cicada harvest in my region in Northeast Ohio
Nice video dude.
I've never seen the dark cicadas before, they're green where I grew up with them.
I was really excited when I heard the cicadas would be in bloom this year, I grew up pruning trees in W. Texas and one day I realized that I hadn't seen nor heard a cicada in years.. I saw one the other day and it was a surprisingly nostalgic moment, took me back to the treetops as a kid accidentally planting a hand on one and having it go off like some kind of demented car alarm..😂
I prefer my cicadas fried and then dipped in chocolate. You can sprinkle some sea salt on top or large granular sugar before the chocolate firms up. . Place on a wax paper lined baking sheet and freeze then bag.
This is have they cook them in Mexico
I would like more videos like this, for survival when shtf. I prefer mine gathered by myself than something sold at a market.
I'd love to see some more in-depth cicada-cookery! Also, it sounds like you're planning on trying some other types of invertebrates. I've had crickets and earthworms in the past, and found them both enjoyable; I'd love to see your forays in this regard.
As someone who loved freeze dried crickets as a kid I can vouch that this would probably be pretty good.
Im going to make a receipe... and try them. Dipped in Egg and Powdered Garlic Floured and Deep fried...
Thanks for your experimenting!
I just ate a Ladino clover flower from my yard after watching that video. I wish you would do one on eating locusts like John the Baptist.
Ditto on John the Baptist as I always wondered if he ate them raw or prepared, either in honey or cooked.
Just recently found out it was the locust Bean that grew in that region, not an actual insect. 🤯 I always wondered about that too, how wild honey and bugs would be enough to sustain a grown man all year long:)
I have heard that about the locust tree. I don’t know which is correct. Either or both would make an interesting video.
One of the most important food sources for bears in some areas is moth larvae. Apparently it's essential for their ability to put on enough weight for the winter. If I remember correctly those same bears will rip apart bee hives to get the larvea and the honey, too. If that kind of thing is so important to bears I would think it could sustain a human too. @@Di17227
@steelmote
Grasshoppers and locusts are 2 very different things. They do not transform nor shapeshift.
I wanna try this. Please make more entomophogy vids. Thanks for this upload.
Well never did I think I would want to eat a bug but I might have to try this.
A bit of a risky video, great job! Thanks for the knowledge
Hope we get them up here in Todd, NC!! Putting it on the menu. Thanks Jessie!! 🧡🙌🏻
I'm in Missouri. They're driving ppl crazy. Super loud!
You will eat C bugz....K.S.
Some survival trainings require forest foraging. Food can be found everywhere except Antarctica. Unless near the shore
Yes, please, more bug videos. Resourcing what's around us is important. Recipes are also great
thank you for your work, eating insects just makes so much more sense than mass farming meat. it's insane how adverse US culture is to eating insects. we could make such a big difference and be way healthier man
I would be very interested in more videos on the topic.
Multiple cultures practice this. It should totally be normalised. We need more options, even if it's not for everyone.
Especially in a survival situation eating bugs is the best bet for many people. Hunting can be hard and dangerous - you need skill and tools - this is easy! Thanks a lot!
Should we eat cats and dogs like some people do, too??
Totally agree! We really need to catch up on what a lot of people already know: Insects are a delicious, nutritious, sustainable, and ethical source of food!
There's indigenous tribes that would eat people after they passed away as part of their rituals. I think many of us are just so far down the line of "don't eat bugs, don't eat people, etc" that it would be a pretty big mental hang up to get over. I love meat but if it came down to it I'd go vegan and just stick to plants if necessary.
@@katie7748 ah yes, an insect is just as sentient as a mammal
@@katie7748 How much thought did you put into the connection between cicadas and cats and dogs? Just wondering, like, how much time you spent, because I really hope it was under 5 seconds.
Two of my dogs loved to eat them so much it was entertaining watching them compete for the cicadas
I'll send some to Klaus Schwab.
Too late. He was arrested at his home in Switzerland. Delta squad got him while he was in bed hooked up to a machine giving him an IV drip of that "A" word. The darkness will come to light ✨️
I've been seeing tons of them gathered on the red maples planted around my apartment building. They weren't burrowed there but they are gathering there.
Oak going in the middle of a field with some small oaks around it General on Oak tree with grasses around it
I think I will save them for my chickens and turkeys!!!
Huh, I'm oddly very interested in this
We found a ton around the Logan Martin Lake in Lincoln AL. There were 2 trees they were flying all around them, one was a mulberry, one was a fallen log that was at the bottom of the 2 trees, I was so excited to find a mulberry, I didn't think to find out what the other tree was. But my son wants to try to eat one.😊😮
If you made more videos about cooking and eating bugs, I'd watch them for sure!
Great information, well done video Jesse!
As long as your not forcing or tricking people into eating them, or hiding information about them (like the pathogins), and not trying to get rid of farm animals or hunting, then be my guest :) This was a very interesting video, and good information. Thank you.
Get rid of big farm, bring back local meat
Lobster and crabs are grosser Since they eat shit and rotting flesh but the cicadas are eating like roots and plants and shit
@@FriendOrFoe. True enough, doesn't mean you can just waver any negatives of bugs though. And is anyone forcing you to eat crab and lobster, and saying you can't eat cicadas?
@@elijahsanders3547 nobody is forcing people to eat bugs I first ate bugs when I went camping with my dad we got roasted crickets covered in cheese powerd to me they were just weird chips not bad at all lobster and crab was considered gross poor people food back in the day now its considered fancy rich people food just saying things change you can still eat steak and shit like that humans have been eating bugs for thousands of years - leviticus 11 "you may eat any kind of locust Katy did or grasshopper" John the Baptist was known to eat locust and honey
@@FriendOrFoe. I'm ok with people eating bugs if they want to, and yes, John The Baptist did eat wild locasts. But based on my understanding, globalists do want people to eat bugs, and don't want them eating beef (and quite honestly, it's none of their business, and their agendas seem to usually do more harm than good in my opinion). I'm not sure, but it could be being used as an additive as well. And farmers have been being targeted over the last few years with government overreach.
I do want to figure out how to preserve them for my chickens later!
Try freezing them
@@looknailittlechannel I don't have that much freezer space. 😪
@@cynthiacollins2668I wonder if after boiling they could be dried?
This is so good. Thanks for the video Feral Foraging!
Locusts aren’t “closely related” to grasshoppers. They *are* grasshoppers. When there is an abundance of edible plant material for them, their populations grow. Physical contact with each other boost serotonin levels in grasshoppers. Serotonin causes the change to locust. The more grasshoppers there are, the more they bump into each other. The more they bump into each other, the more serotonin is released. The more serotonin released, the more likely the next generation will become locusts. Those locusts are more active, more aggressive, and more destructive to plants.
I'm sorry I can not bring myself to do that,
But they do make great fish bait for larger game fish that I will eat
Yes, show us how to fry them.
No thank u
Well put together video, well done Jesse!
the amount of people here saying they refuse to eat bugs. why are you even here then?
also who the hell is Klause Schabb?
@@dr_spwewpsI suggest you start researching The World Economic Forum.
also you should try deep fried turantula. it tastes like soft shell crab
It’s best to ignore these people but here’s the background: Krause Schwab is the president of The World Economic Forum. The WEF made sustainable protein sources a part of their goals. The group is big on combatting climate change and world hunger (as they fly private and eat steaks). I totally understand disliking these rich, pretentious hypocrites BUT it’s super silly that so many people suddenly think ANY reference to eating bugs is some paid propaganda campaign. I hope most normal people can just appreciate the great info in the video.
@dr_spwewps yeah i gotta hear this. Someone said he was straight up Raided and 💀ed
This was fascinating! Thank you for sharing with us!
I vill not eat zee bugz
Me neither! All these people who insist it's a cOnSpiRacY ThEorY (some of which sound actually eager 😳 ) can have my share.
@@katie7748 you do realize that people can just, like, enjoy how they taste, yes? not everything is about some guy nobody knows about saying people should eat bugs
Yeah normally I’m all for telling the WEF to go to hell, but I think there is a notable difference between a foraging TH-camr saying “here’s a great source of protein you can exploit” and a massive international organization with ambitions to be a governing body saying “you will live in the pod, eat zee bugs, and own nothing and be happy”
The WEF doesn't just want you eating bugs, they want you eating their bugs to make them millions.
I would imagine they hate the idea of you going out and harvesting your own, since they hate anything that makes you self sufficient.
@@katie7748Conspiracy theory? ~scratching my head~
This is really well made video
"Do you think that they're going to remove every last bug from a final product such as flour?"
Vegan's worst nightmare.
Not even close. Exact opposite.
@eugenetswong When I was vegan, for 6 years, and bought products online, I'd always see questions involving bugs in food from vegans. It's funny how now vegans seem to be okay with bugs being on the menu, if only as a replacement for meat...
Funny how things change.
Best wishes!
@@HeroBComplex We don't want it for ourselves. It's very logical.
At 1 time, they might have been concerned about bits in grains, but many don't care anymore, since it means less suffering. A few thousand accidental bugs vs. millions of deliberate mammals, right?
@@eugenetswong Insects are alive just as much as any other animal. Accidental insect deaths are fine, but more insect deaths for the purpose of consumption isn't better than eating a cow or a chicken. Why? Because you'd be killing way more animals in order to sustain people at the same level of calories.
Knowingly eating a bug or a cow is the same in terms of 1 life = 1 life, neither one's more moral than the other, but you'd have to kill a lot of bugs to equal a cow.
I was vegan for over 6 years and ate as balanced and clean as possible, but as time went on I had way less energy and found myself being way too sensitive to everything. I'm okay with veganity, obviously I was one, it just wasn't something my body could handle.
Best wishes all the same on your path ahead!
@@HeroBComplexI wasn't advocating before you on the goal of eating insects.
Eating insects causes less harm in the environment. They definitely suffer less, when you can kill them easily.
You have a interesting point about less lives per calorie, but it's not good enough. Some lives do have more value.
Maybe you should try the vegan diets that competitive vegan athletes use.
EXCELLENT 🎉❤ loved this new option in foraging!
Found a whole bunch on a hackberry tree!
This is so cool! I've had crickets before and they're delicious, so I really want to try this. I'm a vegetarian, but just for ethics reasons. Things like hunted or foraged food doesn't bother me in the slightest.
You are not vegetarian if you purposely ate crickets, unless this is before you stopped eating meat.
Klaus put you up to this?
My thoughts exactly!
🐛 eat ze bugz 🐛
Klaus was removed from his home in Switzerland, in which a gun fight broke out. Klaus had around 30 body guards too. Delta squad took at least one casualty but completed the job. When they got to him, he was in bed hooked up to a machine with an IV drip of that "A" word. The darkness will come to light ✨️ Salem 💚💙💜
@@EL-Ki-Yanas we can't stop here.~ this is bat country
Haha!!! I thought it was Bill
My old rabbit used to go wild eating these.
OMG. My first video of yours, and you're saying to eat big bugs? .. Now that's a forager talking! New Subscriber. 😊
I watched this longer than I should have
These are things you'll need to know if Trump gets back in office and we live like Russia
I don't eat any animals but if there was nothing else, I'd eat bugs.
Bugs are people too
😂😂😂@@thschnick
That's funny...I don't eat plants...nope! LOL..I'd eat weird stuff too if nothing else.
We are overdue for a massive CME...no power grid! We may sample a bug or two before it's over!
But I do LOVE ANIMALS (some taste really good too)
If no one has your back...bug out with jerky and kraut.
You've been sick more times than you can count the last 5 years haven't you?
@@michaelhart8288You might very well be right because while I was vegan, 6 years, I'd convince myself over and over that I was healthier than when I ate meat. I was wrong, even though I ate a balanced diet I got weaker and weaker. I finally caved and am in better shape than I ever was as a vegan. It may work for some but not for me...
Best wishes!
I’ve found them around Bradford pears pretty frequently
If I want to eat bugs I’ll just eat Tyson products.
😂😂😂💎
Do you eat lobster, shrimp, or crawfish? Genetically they are as close to cockroaches as you can get. They are water roaches.
Then don't eat them, and just move on when other people do
@@crocodilopolisexcuse me? Are you assuming I don’t eat them? I NEVER said I don’t eat them. So before you attack my comment, get your facts straight first.
Great video, super interesting!
So it's like crayfish/crawdads. Best way to prepare them is to steam them with some old bay seasoning.
Thanks. Great vid!✌
This video really brought out the kooks in the comments...
Imagine being this angry and announcing your unsubbing over this, that doesn't even affect you. I'm seeing all these dudes being squeamish, so far none of them women. Just dudes throwing tantrums.
seems like a ton of them are weird conservatives who believe in some weird conspiracy theory
@@WobblesandBean Agreed
Kooks? Conspiracy theories? 😂 grow up
@@dr_spwewpsWEF is not a conspiracy theory
That is an amazing video! And a very pleasant surprise. I would love to see more videos about cicadas and other insects. Maybe some clamps and stuff like that, as somebody already mentioned in the comments. That is a fascinating subject and a fairly empty niche in the TH-cam foraging.
Thank you for your hard work and great content.
And as for the all of the aholes in the comments, well engagement is engagement, I don't think the algorithm really cares what the comments actually says.
Great video! I will definitely try to get some when they emerge near me
The “super-fresh” ones don’t “bug” him. 😂
You vill eat zee bugs!
😜
Let's hope natural selection takes care of the conspiracy theorists...
@@Veheloth, I think you mean the 'conspirators'
@@Joe_C. I dont...
@@Veheloth, so what you're saying is that we currently live in a utopia where people have and have had humanities best interests always at the forefront... Eschewing personal, political, financial, deviant, and megalomaniacal interests
@Joe_C. what I'm say8ng is trash brained people are trash. To think there is some conspiracy to get you to eat bugs shows you shouldn't be free.
the cicadas are emerging in the chicago area, gonna try them as soon as i can find them
Up until now I have always avoided eating insects or even just trying. However, those deep fried ones looked pretty good so if the timing is just right then I just might have a go at preparing some.
Good video! If we had them here (WA state) I'd definitely eat them
Well we eat shrimp and lobster so hmmm maybe
shroom cicadas were not what I expected to discover in this video but I'm delighted that I did 😂😂
Id bet different tree varieties have Cicadas that taste like tree
Very interesting theory! The larvae feed off of plant roots, while the adults feed off of tree trunks.
While you can't guarantee that the ones you're gathering have been feeding off of the roots of the trees they're climbing on, I'm very curious to see if ones gathered from one area tastes different from another.
I'm definitely going to play with the idea.
I'm pretty big into beneficial bacteria and just read they have several very unique strains in them.
I've always wondered if eating grubs would be like shrimp.
Protein, tasty, hungry, Im in 😊. Your video shows the research and brain work . Thank you !
I enjoyed this. It is good to know about options.
Protein in bugs is mostly indigestible thanks to it being in their chitin exoskeleton.
Same goes to mushrooms.
interesting
Can you back this up? I am very curious.
@@ohsnapitsgenevaLook it up online. The info is there, especially since the new push by TPTB for us to eat insects.
I just googled it and 70-90% IS digestible after the exoskeleton so this is some misinformation
cant say anything for cicadas but crickets, wasp larva & flying ants were really good(rural NE Thailand). I sought them out on my own, not just eating them as a good guest.
Have chickens. Chickens eat the bugs. Human eats the chickens.
And that's just as it should be!
Real reality. Bugs are not food for human kind. If some choose to eat bugs, does absolutely not mean I have to. Common sense. Besides that, what about any food allergies, now that cricket powder is being added to food under the guise of some other name. Best cook and bake at home, from simple one ingredient items.
And your point is ? Skip the chicken?
Birds are able to digest Chitin... humans, not so much...
@@joaquinmurrieta8912 this is false and disproven years ago human gastric juices contain chitinase the enzyme that dissolves chitin. If there was a problem with eating insect we would already have seen it happening within the current existing cultures that eat insects regularly.