Dog Snacks
Those 17 year cicadas are due to hit here in Virginia this year. Here is an article describing what my dog has to look forward to:

HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- This spring's crop of 17-year cicadas will seem like junk food to dogs and cats -- and, like junk food, they can make pets sick, the Humane Society of the United States warns.

"Imagine a yard full of chicken nuggets -- that's sort of what it's going to be like," Randall Lockwood, a Humane Society vice president and animal behaviorist, said Tuesday.

He said the insects are protein-rich but their exoskeletons are indigestible, so eating too many can cause vomiting or constipation.

For most pets, it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience - and almost irresistible, he said.

"They're just so abundant that this is kind of the canine equivalent of a bag of potato chips," he said.

The bugs have a nutty flavor, David George Gordon, author of "The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook," told The Washington Post.

Lockwood said cicadas are meaty, and eating a few won't hurt your pet. But too many can overload an animal's digestive tract with chitin, the hard substance of which insect shells are made. If a pet has more than two vomiting episodes or appears to be in pain, a trip to the veterinarian may needed, he said.

My dog is a very picky eater, so she might not go for these, but you never know. These hit in the Chicago area in 1990, I think, so for some reason they are outta synch with Virginia. I remember them back then because I was working for the park district that summer on the cutting team and I was outside with those things all day. There were hundreds of them attached to every shrub, so if you disturbed them by bumping up against their bush with the mower a bunch would fly off. They were kinda nasty looking but pretty harmless.