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Earth Talk: Early cicada blooms blamed on warming Published Friday, May. 21, 2021, 10:17 am Join AFP s 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Dear EarthTalk: Are the cicada blooms of the eastern U.S. out of whack due to global warming and/or other man-made environmental problems? – Joe R., Moorestown, NJ (© Ralf Broskvar – stock.adobe.com) The short answer is: probably. If you live in the eastern or midwestern U.S., you’ve likely seen so-called periodic cicadas. These inch-long, gray- and orange-winged insects with bulging red eyes feed on the underground xylem tissue of tree roots for years before emerging in millions-strong-per-acre swarms to mate and then die. Of the 3,000 different cicada species around the world, only seven all in North America are periodical. The first historical reports of periodical cicadas came from

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