Last year at about this time, I was taking home the cicada shells I'd found, and this old lady asked me if they were for making medicine. That was funny, but this piece of news is not: I just learned that Chinese residents in Busan are congregating in an ecological park every evening to sweep up all the cicada nymphs they see... to eat!
I know eating bugs is really not all that uncommon, but still, these guys are one of my favorite species of insect... Is the torturous pleasure of listening to the deafening din of cicadas buzzing every summer in danger of disappearing from Korean cities?
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