To keep the soil moist and cool, a mulch of pine bark or pine straw is helpful.
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Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 July 2025
While there are about 2,800 species of scorpions, there is only one in the U.S. that's dangerous to humans, according to the University of Arizona Health Sciences: the Arizona bark scorpion.
This includes but isn't limited to the following appliances:
Dishwashers
Washing Machines
Dryers
Refrigerators
Dehumidifiers
Air Purifiers
Freezers
Ovens
Your home security system may emit a beep or chirp to alert you of a dying battery or a fault, such as a door or window that's unsecured.
—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 June 2025
According to recent research published in Current Biology, male lyrebirds – who typically have a mellifluous chirp – sometimes mimic the sound of a mobbing flock of birds during courtship and copulation.
One of the Harley-Davidson Homecoming festival’s centerpiece attractions — concerts in Veterans Park in downtown Milwaukee — ended not with a roar but with a whimper July 11, and abruptly, when the concerts were canceled around 6 p.m. due to approaching storms.
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Piet Levy,
jsonline.com,
12 July 2025
Beneath its icy surface, hundreds of dormant subglacial volcanoes could awaken, not with a whisper, but with a roar.
Tell that to the kids who have been hospitalized and died from measles, following quack Dr. Bobby’s Rx to avoid the shots.
—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
29 May 2025
The Spare Room by Helen Garner This is a book about a woman, Helen, who decides to let her old friend, Nicola, who is dying of cancer, come and stay with her in Melbourne while Nicola sees a local quack doctor.
When the spotlight hit vocalist Noah Sebastian, a decidedly un-metal chorus of teenage squeals filled the air.
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Cal Roach,
jsonline.com,
5 July 2025
The gym was quiet, echoing only the squeal of sneakers and pounding of the basketball instead of the music and laughter that typically accompany a pregame training session.
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