After life underground – most of it as a big fat grub worm – Cicadas are popping up all over the Boggy Thicket. The nymphs look like a big wingless bug, and they make their way up a tree trunk or the wall of the house. Once there, they sit until the outer shell splits and the adult Cicada emerges. That’s what is supposed to happen, but at our home, only a tiny fraction of them make it to the wall.
That’s because they are delicious! – just ask our two miniature dachshunds.
Tinker and Dusty have been scarfing up Cicadas constantly for the past week. Apparently, they can hear them digging or smell them underground, because they don’t always wait for the bugs to emerge. Our pups have dug dozens of little holes to get to the bugs while they’re still underground.
Tinker gobbles them down immediately, but Dusty, the more finicky eater, will play with them for a while first. She picks them up, drops them, rolls them around with her paws and eventually eats them. Apparently Cicada legs tickle the roof of her mouth, because she will only pick them up to eat them when they are right-side up.
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