Teens Make Jewelry Out Of Dead Cicadas

Bugs Collected After Recent Swarm

POSTED: 7:26 am EDT July 9, 2008
UPDATED: 10:46 am EDT July 9, 2008

BOSTON --

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.

Photos: What's Happened Since Cicadas Were Last Here?

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.

They charge $10 per pair of earrings, and some local shop owners are buying the jewelry to sell at their stores.

Katheryn and Brady said that they plan to make more for future farmers markets.

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