chefjoseph had been cooking with the star ingredient to encourage americans to reimagine bugs as a protein rich, sustainable food source. i think i m ready. may i? yes, please. ok, i m going to go with this one here. bug appetit. a burst of springtime in your mouth. there s a booth for the sound and lights. for others, the noisy critters are just downright disruptive. it s safe to say shakespeare is not in love with the cicada. this theatre company has had to cut its outdoor season short. the last time i directed a show out here, i sat over there with two huge badminton rackets and just screamed as they came at me and swatted them away. the takeover may be dramatic, but it is temporary. soon, the larvae of the new generation will burrow their way into the ground, resetting the 17 year cycle. nada tawfik, bbc news, newjersey. you can reach me on twitter i m @benmboulos.
turkey s president, recep tayyip erdogan, has inaugurated a large mosque in istanbul, a project he first championed when he was the city s mayor. thousands of worshippers gathered for the opening ceremony. the mosque sits in taksim square, next to a public space traditionally seen as a symbol of the secular turkish republic and dwarfs a nearby monument to the republic and its founding. in 2013 opposition demonstrators took over taksim square and next door gezi park in protest against a separate government plan to build a replica barracks in the area. every 17 years they cause havoc and the occasional shudder. billions of cicadas known as brood x or brood 10 are emerging in a synchronized event that only happens in the us. and as the bbc s nada tawfik reports from the state of newjersey the great eastern brood is causing quite the buzz. it s a sight and sound that
here, i sat over there with two huge badminton rackets and just screamed as they came at me and swatted them away. the takeover may be dramatic, but it s temporary. soon the larvae of the new generation will burrow their way into the ground, resetting the 17 year cycle. nada tawfik, bbc news, newjersey. now it s time for a look at the weather with louise lear. hello there. we finally got there, it has been a miserable may, but we are closing the bank holiday weekend with some dry, settled and sunny weather. i know there has been some low cloud, mist and fog around as depicted beautifully by these patient sheep in doncaster, but we are optimistic that that will break. the morning satellite picture showing how extensive the cloud was, and in some areas it was thick enough for early morning drizzle, but the sunshine nibbling away at it quite nicely. into the afternoon there will be more sunshine coming through, temperatures will start to climb and that may well trigger
here, i sat over there with two huge badminton rackets and just screamed as they came at me and swatted them away. the takeover may be dramatic, but it s temporary. soon the larvae of the new generation will burrow their way into the ground, resetting the 17 year cycle. nada tawfik, bbc news, newjersey. officials in california say the man who shot dead nine fellow employees at a rail yard in sanjose on wednesday had amassed an arms stockpile in his home which included a dozen guns, materials to make molotov cocktails and 22 thousand rounds of ammunition. the attack ended when 57 year old sam cassidy turned his gun on himself. we know sniffer dogs can detect drugs, explosives and even diseases these days and now man s best friend is moving into the drinks business.
to evade predators. then the metamorphosis from nymph to adult happens relatively quickly. so, here we have a fully grown female that s now ready to mate and lay her eggs. she ll only live 4 6 weeks, though, after being underground for 17 years. cos this is when they re most vulnerable, right here, - cos their body is so soft. it s a magical time for entomologist drjessica weir, whose16 year old daughter wasn t even alive the last time she saw these insects. the world was a very different place back then. george bush was president, and facebook was just launched. you know, a lot of people - for centuries have been calling these things locusts, i but they re the opposite of locusts cos they rel not actually a plague, they re not destroying crops. they re actually living their life completely i in exclusion of humans, i and they re great nutrition. i m going to put two on this one. yes, you heard that right, these critters are a culinary delicacy. cicadas are a flavour bomb. they have so