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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">Scientific American, Jude Coleman on March 22, 2023</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(84, 141, 212);" class="ContentPasted0"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">Birds are heading north before their insect prey emerge. Bees are missing out on early blossoms. Ticks and other pests have more time to feast and spread
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">Across the U.S. Southeast and mid-Atlantic, cheery daffodils, brilliant forsythias and delicate pink-and-white cherry blossoms are blooming unseasonably
early. Some have already peaked, with their vibrant petals turned brown with wilt—and it is only mid-March. Migratory birds such as the Nashville Warbler have touched down several weeks ahead of schedule, and on blades of grass in New York State and other
spots, ticks have perched, poised to latch onto their first victims of the season, since February.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="ContentPasted0"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted1">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spring-is-starting-earlier-its-not-your-imagination/?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p class="ContentPasted1"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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