[gwern]

A word of advice if you're trying out cockroaches/crickets/cicadas for yourself: do something about the shell if it isn't very soft. During the most recent cicada emergence in my area, I caught a bunch and cooked them up as spaghetti ( http://www.gwern.net/Notes#cicadas ); unfortunately, I didn't do anything about their shells, which were pretty tough toward the end of the emergence, and my dinner was less pleasant than I hoped.