Teens Make Jewelry Out Of Dead Cicadas

Two Sandwich teenagers are making a few extra bucks by selling jewelry crafted out of dead bugs.

Katheryn Maloney and Brady Cullinan, both 17, sold earrings and necklaces at a local market Tuesday made from dead cicadas collected during this year’s swarm, the Cape Cop Times reported. The bugs covered areas of the Cape this year for the first time in 17 years.

The teens paid neighborhood friends 5 cents a bug to collect the dead cicadas. The bugs are then lacquered, dyed, embellished with beads and strung on wires.

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Tagged as: Bugs, Cicada Shells, Cicadas, Creepy Crawlies, Jewelry, Teenagers, Teens