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Recent Examples of guanoHe was jolted out of his reverie by a whiff of guano in the breeze.—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025 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.—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 guano is made from the droppings of bats that are collected from caves.—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for guano
To support themselves in the off-season, many chile pickers tend the ruminants, selling them for meat and selling their milk and manure.
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Kamala Thiagarajan,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2026
There is no federal safety standard for hydrogen sulfide except for workers at sites where the risk is extreme, such as wastewater treatment plants or manure pits.
They can be sampled using standardized trapping methods worldwide, since they are easily attracted to dung and carrion, which allows for comparable data across different regions.
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Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2026
Yes, unfortunately, the ancient Irish did burn cow dung to heat their homes when peat was too expensive or not available.
As a low-maintenance tree, the mulberry thrives in various soil types and is drought-tolerant once established.
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SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
24 Apr. 2026
Craig Adair, vice president of development at Open Road Renewables, which has pursued renewable energy projects in several states, has fielded a range of concerns over the years — from how soil could be contaminated to the possibility of electromagnetic fields causing cancer.