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Recent Examples of guano
If excluding the bats is a DIY job, clean up the roosting area afterwards so that guano doesn’t attract other pests such as cockroaches and flies.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
Bat droppings: Also known as guano, these small, dark pellets can be found in windowsills, porches, or the attic.
—Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2025
Penguin poop, also known as guano, is notoriously smelly.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2025
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
Bat droppings: Also known as guano, these small, dark pellets can be found in windowsills, porches, or the attic.
—Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2025
Penguin poop, also known as guano, is notoriously smelly.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guano
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The Winneshiek County dairy with about 330 head of dairy cattle has been cited for two previous fish kill incidents, where manure leaked from the operation into a tributary of Dry Run Creek.—
Cami Koons,
Iowa Capital Dispatch,
10 Feb. 2026
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Keep the plant three or more feet from the home and prepare the ground with compost, peat moss or manure.—
Tom Macklin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
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Now that temperatures have picked up and the snow is finally melting, weeks’ worth of animal excrement is thawing out and new piles are added every day.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
17 Feb. 2026
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The piercing doesn't necessarily damage the trees, but their excrement, which is high in sugar, stains the trees and blocks photosynthesis, which eventually suffocates the trees, the researchers said.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
9 Feb. 2026
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The streets are begrimed by factory smoke, fecund with horse dung and lit by lanterns.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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These rodents left 15 pieces of dung on top of the dishwasher.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
19 Dec. 2025
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Lunar rocks and soil offered novel insights into the moon’s origin and composition, and more recent analysis of previously untouched Apollo samples, as well as samples retrieved by robotic missions, revealed the surprising discovery of water trapped in rocks thought to be bone-dry.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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Our team of a half dozen volunteers worked for a little over an hour, amazed at the size of these starchy beasts in the earthy soil.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 Feb. 2026
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Flies and roach poop caused a mall food court chain’s Kendall location to fail inspection last week, a week after its Hialeah location also flopped inspection.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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This helps draw water into poop, keeping it soft and easy to pass.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Moreover, at higher temperatures, pine cones stored in middens, which act as a refrigerator, tend to spoil faster.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
23 Dec. 2025
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Every man must take part in the work, and even the officers cover the middens and feed the sick.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Dec. 2025
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In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.—
Alex Beam,
BostonGlobe.com,
2 May 2018
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“Guano.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guano. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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