Everything is a cicada, right?

Lola, I think we must be related. I love cicadas. I've been eating them and playing with them. It's awesome, but walks do take longer. Mom doesn't think it's awesome. In fact, it kind of grosses her out. But hey, I'm a dog. Francie eats poop, I eat bugs. What can I say??? Is that conduct unbecoming a BFF?

Not at all. I eat poop but I haven't eaten a cicada. One latched onto my nose this morning and it freaked me out.

They're all over the place in our yard. Mom's afraid I'll try to eat one cause I'm always eating bugs. She says it's gross.

Suart, your mom is right. I can't believe that my prissy BFF sisters eat the things they eat. Totally disgusting.

Sounds like your walks have turned into a "cicada hunt". You just answered Mom's question of what she caught me eating the other day when she came over to check it out and all she saw was a wing!

Wow - you guys still have Cicadas? Here in the Mountain State we just call 'em Locusts.

They've been gone here for about a month now. I did find a dead one in the back window of mom's car about a week ago. It was hard to reach, but I finally snagged it. Crunchy! I sure do miss chasing them! You're sooooo lucky! Fun to play with and not a bad snack. Enjoy while you can, they'll be gone for probably the rest of our lifetimes.

I grew up in Pennsylvania and we call them locusts there, too.

We call em locusts, too. The first time i ever heard the word "cicada" was a few years ago when my nephew was in kindergarten! I thought it was a word he made up! Duh. :)

Hmmm...found this in wikepedia.

A cicada is an insect of the order Homoptera, suborder Auchenorrhyncha, in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with large eyes wide apart on the head and usually transparent, well-veined wings. There are about 2,500 species of cicada around the globe, and many remain unclassified. Cicadas live in temperate to tropical climates where they are among the most widely recognized of all insects, mainly due to their large size and remarkable acoustic talents. Cicadas are sometimes colloquially called "locusts",[1] although they are unrelated to true locusts, which are a kind of grasshopper. They are also known as "jar flies". Cicadas are related to leafhoppers and spittlebugs. In parts of the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States they are known as "dry flies" because of the dry shell they leave behind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada

If people eat them, I guess it's okay for us dogs to eat them. Well...I'm going to pass on this one. They are too ugly for me and the thought of the "crunch" in my mouth..yuck.