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If the Plagues of 2020 Were Not Enough: Here Come the Brood X Cicadas

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It must have seemed like a Biblical plague of locusts in May, 1715, when the Reverend Andreas Sandel of Philadelphia’s “Gloria Dei” Swedish Lutheran Church first described the emergence of billions of brown and black cicadas with bugged-out red eyes. But in 1732, botanist John Bartram wrote a…