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For the first time ever on AMT, we have a question of cicadas. It is from Sam from Charlottesville, Virginia:

I live on the east coast of the United States, and every 17 years millions of cicadas emerge from the ground to fill the skies and cover the trees as they produce the next generation of cicadas.

This spring marks 17 years since the last time it happened, so answer me this: what should I do to commemorate this event? The last time it happened I was quite young, but now I have more agency, so I should be better able to take advantage of the opportunities it offers, whatever they may be.

Ordinarily I am not one for eating insects, but I don’t have a shellfish allergy, and it seems a shame to let them all go to waste. Are there any good recipes for cicadas? What beers, wines, and liquors pair well with cicadas? Are there any good theme parties that incorporate cicadas?

Readers, over to you: how best to celebrate this momentous event? Dressing like a cicada? Strapping on your prosthetic proboscis and getting hammered on sap? Emulating the cicada’s song by choosing a John Secada number at karaoke?

Or, battening down the hatches and hiding indoors until you’re certain the other nine Biblical plagues aren’t going to follow?

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