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I remember last time the 17 year brood emerged I was living in Illinois. I remember riding my bike to school and it was impossible to not run over a bunch of ci
by robotnikman 3y ago
I remember last time the 17 year brood emerged I was living in Illinois. I remember riding my bike to school and it was impossible to not run over a bunch of cicadas. Also a nearby zoo was paying people to bring in buckets of them which they would use to feed animals there.
- nharada 3y agoYeah I remember this, it was pretty gross in a fascinating way. You'd walk outside and every step was crunchy.
- fbdab103 3y agoWhat is the going rate for a bucket of cicadas? The logistics of transportation sound tricky. Am I scooping up dead cicadas? If live, transporting the bulk intact is going to be fun. I am imagining broke teenagers balancing squirming buckets on a bike handlebars.
- robotnikman 3y agoYep, it was basically something for us kids and teens to do to make some cash, and iirc there were a decent amount of people who did it that lived nearby the zoo