People will probably mock this, but once I worked with bugs in an exhibition that offered people the opportunity to handle some and to sample cooked crickets and mealworms, and we had to ask everyone who wanted to eat a bug if they had a shellfish allergy, and it was amazing how many people who were ready to chow down on crickets who actually were allergic and could have gotten hives, been ill, or gone into anaphylactic shock.
The last thing you want is someone getting sick or seriously ill because of something easily preventable that they just didn’t know about.
[Text in image: "FDA says to avoid eating cicadas 'if you're allergic to seafood'
Arman Azad, CNN
Updated 4:11 PM EDT June 2, 2021
Cicadas might seem like a crispy, protein-packed snack, but people with seafood allergies should think twice about eating them, according to the US Food and Drug Administration." End text]