CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What is the difference between a cicada monkey and a cicada?

1. What is the difference between Zhiliao Monkey and Zhiliao

The edible cicada monkey and cicada are different forms of the same animal (cicada) at different stages. They go through three stages in their life: egg, nymph, and adult. The nymph refers to the cicada monkey, and the adult refers to the cicada. The main differences between the cicada monkey and the cicada are different properties, morphological characteristics, and living habits. Let's explain them in detail below:

First of all, let's look at the nature. Zhiliao monkey belongs to the nymph or larval stage of cicada, also known as the old turtle, hunchback, climbing cicada, cicada turtle, climbing fork, etc. Zhiliao generally refers to cicada, which is the adult of cicada.

The morphological characteristics are different. The cicada monkey is yellow-brown, has wing buds, can crawl, and has digging front feet. The cicada is all black, shiny, and has a metallic luster. The mesothorax is wide, with a yellow-brown "x" shaped bulge in the center. The front and back wings are transparent. The male has a song organ on the first and second abdominal segments, while the female has no song organ. The ovipositor is prominent and well-developed.

Then there are the differences in their living habits. When the nymphs fall to the ground, they immediately dive into the soil and obtain nutrition by sucking the juice of plant roots. The nymphs generally live in the soil for 3 to 5 years, or even longer, until the last-instar larvae drill out of the ground, climb up nearby weeds and trees, and finally stay on branches and bark, molting and emerging as adults. Cicadas can make sounds. The sound made by male cicadas is a high frequency of hundreds of times per second, constantly vibrating the two drum-like membranes located in the abdomen to make a sharp and loud sound. This sound helps female cicadas determine the location of male cicadas suitable for mating. Male cicadas sing non-stop every day to lure female cicadas to mate, and they cannot hear their own "singing". Each species of male cicadas makes three different calls: the gathering call, which is adjusted by daily weather changes and the calls of other male cicadas, the courtship call before mating, and the harsh call when they are caught or frightened and fly away.

It can also be understood in this way: they are all nicknames for cicadas. Cicada monkey generally refers to the larvae of cicadas, which drill out of the soil and climb up the tree trunk. This process is just like a monkey that can climb a tree, so it is called cicada monkey. After it climbs up the tree and then begins to molt, and when it grows wings and can fly, it is called cicada!

Although cicadas are agricultural and forestry pests, they also have a good side. Because of their unique flavor, rich nutrition, and good medicinal and health-care effects, as people's living standards continue to improve, the market demand for cicadas, which are highly nutritious, green and delicious, is also increasing, and the price is also rising accordingly.

The main differences are different properties, morphological characteristics, and living habits, as follows:

1. Different nature

1. Cicada Monkey

Cicada monkey generally refers to the golden cicada. The cicada goes through three stages in its life: egg, nymph, and adult. The cicada monkey belongs to the nymph or larval stage of the cicada. It is also called the old turtle, the hunchback, the climbing black grasshopper cicada, the cicada turtle, and the climbing fork.

2. Cicada

Zhiliao generally refers to cicada, which is the adult of cicada.

2. Different morphological characteristics

1. Cicada Monkey

Yellowish brown, with wing buds, able to crawl, with front legs in digging position.

2. Cicada

The whole body is black and shiny, with a metallic luster. The mesothorax is wide, with a yellow-brown "x"-shaped bulge in the center. The front and back wings are transparent. The male has a song organ on the first and second abdominal segments, while the female has no song organ. The ovipositor is prominent and well developed.

3. Different living habits

1. Cicada Monkey

The nymphs fall to the ground and immediately burrow into the soil, obtaining nutrition by sucking the sap from plant roots. The nymphs generally live in the soil for 3 to 5 years, or even longer, until the last-instar larvae drill out of the ground, climb up nearby weeds, trees, etc., and finally stay on branches, leaves, and bark, molting and emerging as adults.

2. Cicada

Nymphs have to shed their shells many times in their long lives. Each time they shed their shells, they become adults. When they become adults, they make sounds. The sounds made by male cicadas are hundreds of times per second, and they constantly vibrate the two tympanic membranes located in the abdomen to make sharp and loud sounds. This sound helps female cicadas determine the location of male cicadas suitable for mating. Male cicadas sing non-stop every day to lure female cicadas to mate, and they cannot hear their own "singing". Each species of male cicadas makes three different calls: the gathering call, which is adjusted by daily weather changes and the calls of other male cicadas, the courtship call before mating, and the harsh call when they are caught or startled and fly away.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Cicada Monkey

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Zhiliao

They are all nicknames for cicadas. Cicada monkey generally refers to the larvae of cicadas, which drill out of the soil and climb up the tree trunk. This process is just like a monkey that can climb a tree, so it is called cicada monkey. After it climbs up the tree and then begins to molt, and when it grows wings and can fly, it is called cicada!

They are all nicknames for cicadas. Cicada monkey generally refers to the larvae of cicadas, which crawl out of the soil and climb up the tree trunks. This process is just like a monkey that can climb a tree, so it is called cicada monkey.

Cicada (scientific name: Cicadidae; English name: Cicada, Cicala or Cicale) is a family of the suborder Cercorrhizal order of the order Hemiptera, class Insecta. It is commonly known as cicada (譭i) or jieluozi. Due to different dialects, the nicknames also vary accordingly. For more information, please check the nicknames in the basic information column.

They live in temperate to tropical regions of the world (more than 2,000 species of cicadas have been recorded). Some species distributed in desert areas will expel excess water from their back plates (tergum) when their body temperature overheats, thereby achieving the effect of cooling and dissipating heat. [1-2]

Male cicadas have sound organs on their abdomens, which can continuously make sharp sounds. Female cicadas do not make sounds, but have sound organs on their abdomens. Larvae live underground and suck the roots of plants, while adults eat plant sap. Cicadas are incomplete metamorphosis (incomplete metamorphosis), which transforms from eggs to larvae (nymphs), through one molt, without going through the pupal period, to adults.

Cicada monkeys are the larvae of cicadas.

2. Is Zhiliao a golden cicada?

Yes, cicadas are the transformed adults of cicadas.

No, the golden cicada refers to the cicada monkey, which is the time when the cicada has not yet shed its skin.

3. Which one has more medicinal value, the cicada or the cicada?

Same here. The cicada is also called the cicada turtle, cicada monkey, child-eating, old and young dog, and climbing fork, all of which are its names. The cicada turtle and cicada monkey should be simply called cicada.

They are rich in nutrients and have high medicinal value, especially the skin of the cicada, which is a traditional Chinese medicine. The idiom "Cicada sheds its shell" also comes from it.

The cicada molt is the part that has medicinal value, so the medicinal value of cicada molt is not great.

Golden cicada! Cicada is a medicinal herb!

Of course it is the cicada molt, which can open the throat and relieve the pain

Same price for everyone

4. How to make and eat golden cicada~?~~?

The most common way to eat it is "fried golden cicada". Cicada nymphs (cicada turtles) have extremely high nutritional value for medicinal food and a unique taste. They are the best among edible insects and have become a famous dish suitable for various occasions. Especially the newly unearthed nymphs contain 58.58%-72% protein, 10.23% fat, 0.3% total potassium, 0.58% total phosphorus, 16.5 mg/kg calcium, and 82.2 mg/kg zinc. It is a rare high-protein, low-fat game delicacy. Now I will introduce you to several ways to cook golden cicada delicacies.

Dish name: Five-spice golden cicada

Take the shells of the golden cicada that have just been unearthed from the ground and have not yet emerged, rinse them with clean water, remove debris, boil them for sterilization, package and freeze them to make primary processed semi-finished products, then dehydrate them with salt water, steam them with heat, cover them for sterilization and seal them to make salted golden cicada cans, or add seasoning water to the dehydrated cicada and simmer or roast them to make the five-spice golden cicada.

Others: Dish name: Crispy Golden Cicada

Take the shells of the golden cicada that have just been unearthed from the ground and have not yet emerged, rinse them with clean water to remove debris, boil them for sterilization, package and freeze them to make primary processed semi-finished products, then dehydrate them with salt water, steam them with hot water, cover them for sterilization and seal them to make salted golden cicada canned food, or stew them with seasoning water and dehydrated cicada, coat the stewed cicada with batter, and fry them to make crispy golden cicada.

Dish name: Grilled cicada

Remove the mud from the cicada, wash it and dry it, skewer it with bamboo sticks, grill it, sprinkle some cumin on it and eat it directly. It tastes fresh and delicious.

Dish name: Golden cicada spinning silk

The potato is "spun" into thin filaments with a knife. How thin are they? Generally, a potato can be "spun" into 6-meter-long filaments, and then the potato filaments are wrapped layer by layer on the cicada pupa, and then fried in oil. In addition, soft white sugar is melted and pulled into filaments, and then covered on the potato cicada pupa. I don't need to say much about the nutrition of this dish. One cicada pupa is equivalent to three eggs. Some people say that this is not a Northeastern dish. In fact, this dish incorporates the "shredding skills" of Northeastern cuisine. Anyone who is a little knowledgeable knows that Northeastern cuisine is famous for 6 kinds of thin filaments: potato shreds, cabbage shreds, radish shreds, green pepper shreds, pickled mustard shreds, and fried eggplant shreds.

Dish name: Yellow dragon playing with golden cicada

It is a kind of insect food made from mealworms and young cicadas through special processing. Its advantages are: crispy and refreshing, long aftertaste, high nutritional value, yellow appearance and transparent

The cold platter made of mealworms and young cicadas is not only delicious but also highly ornamental.

Effect, can stimulate appetite.

Dish name: Deep-fried cicada with cumin

Ingredients: Main ingredient: 300g canned cicada. Accessories: 500g salad oil, 1 egg, 15g cumin powder, 10g flour, 20g scallion, 10g rice wine, 5g chili powder, 5g pepper powder, 5g salt, 1g MSG. Preparation method (1) Rinse the cicada with water and drain the water; wash and chop the scallion. (2) Put the cicada, chopped scallion, rice wine, chili powder, salt, MSG and pepper powder into a bowl and mix well. (3) Beat the egg and put it into a bowl with flour and cumin powder and mix well. (4) Heat oil in a pan, fry the cicadas one by one, remove from the pan and drain the oil.

Features: crispy, tender, salty and slightly spicy.

Golden Cicada:

Golden cicadas are also known as grasshopper cicadas, cicada turtles, and cicada monkeys. They have extremely high medicinal value and unique taste. The newly-born nymphs contain the highest amount of protein, making them a rare high-protein, low-fat game delicacy. They contain 72% protein, 10.23% fat, 16.5 mg/kg calcium, and 82.02 mg/kg zinc.

According to the "Chinese Medicinal Materials", golden cicada can improve the essence and strengthen the yang, quench thirst and produce body fluid, protect the lungs and kidneys, fight baldness, and inhibit cancer. Cicada shells are rich in chitin, isoxanthopterin, erythropterin, adenosine triphosphatase and other ingredients. They have the effect of preventing and treating symptoms such as hoarseness of cough, sore throat, itchy urticaria, red and weak eyes, tetanus, and fright in children. Experts predict that golden cicada will become an important green health food in the future.

There is a custom of eating cicadas in many areas of my country, especially in the north. The most common ways to eat cicadas are deep-fried (hotel cooking) and grilled (barbecue restaurant cooking). Because of its high medicinal value and unique taste, it is the best among edible insects and has become a famous dish suitable for different occasions.

Cooking method: Green food

This product is a wild green food, not artificially processed, so it must be marinated or salted before cooking, that is, add a certain amount of edible salt, cooking wine, spices and other condiments, boil it and drain it, on the one hand, it can make it tasty; on the other hand, it can also remove its miscellaneous flavors and improve its taste. Then, according to the different tastes and eating habits of different places, different flavors suitable for local people can be made. Such as salty, spicy, pepper and salt, cumin, etc. It can also be served with peanuts, cashews, etc. to enhance its aroma

It is not easy to innovate cicada pupa dishes. It seems that only the classic method of "fried golden cicada" is popular. The following methods of cooking cicada pupae are a little weird, but they taste very good and are very popular. It is said that these methods were discovered from the Yimeng Mountain area. It seems that only places where cicada pupae are abundant can luxuriously change them into so many ways to eat. Golden cicada on the tree 22 yuan/portion, about 30 portions sold per day Highlights: unique presentation. Ingredients: 500 grams of cicada pupae, 200 grams of vermicelli. Seasoning: 1000 grams of peanut oil, 3 grams of salt, 3 grams of MSG, 5 grams of garlic powder, 10 grams of sugar, 8 grams of cornstarch, flour, glutinous rice flour, and 1 egg. Preparation: 1. Put the vermicelli in oil and fry until it expands. Squeeze the washed golden cicada dry, add salt, MSG, garlic powder, sugar, chicken powder, and egg liquid, mix well, marinate for 20 minutes, then add cornstarch, flour, and glutinous rice flour and mix well. Put the golden cicada in 70% hot oil and fry it for about 3 minutes until it is crispy, and place it on the fried vermicelli. Flavor: salty and fresh. Production key: pay attention to the oil temperature when frying, so that it is crispy. Comments: This dish has a unique presentation, looks beautiful and lively, and seems to be full of food. When I tried it, I added some spicy crisps, which were crispy and slightly spicy, and tasted...

You can fry or grill it, but frying is the best, as it is delicious and fragrant.