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Food & Wine

You can enjoy fresh produce and still keep your kitchen pest-free. Here’s how.

How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies in the Kitchen, According to an Exterminator

Find out what professional exterminators and entomologists say about getting rid of termites and how to prevent them from attacking your home. Termites are elusive wood-eating insects that can cause costly damage to your home. Believe it or not, these critters are actually a valuable part of our ecosystem. They are a food source for other animals, their tunneling is good for the soil and their feeding habits are hugely important for wood decomposition. This latter activity is where the human world and the termite world collide: You see the difference between a tree stump and your deck supports, but wood is wood to a termite.

How to Get Rid of Termites

A-Z-Animals

If you spend a lot of time outside in the summer heat, you’ll almost certainly encounter sweat bees, hover flies, or both. These are true pester bugs, and some people confuse them for each other. Yet, they are more opposite than apples and oranges, but neither bears any fatal venom. As their names suggest, hover […]

Hover Fly vs Sweat Bee: What are the Differences?

Ohio State

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The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

Hibiscus plants boast some of the largest and most colorful blooms among their perennial peers. The ultimate goal is flowers when you grow and care for one of these shrubs. We want as many as possible, for as long as possible. So when they fall off sooner than we expected, the disappointment is real.

Why is My Hibiscus Dropping Flowers?

Think before you pop that tomato in your mouth as soon as you get home from the grocery. It's true that veggies can be some of the healthiest foods you put on your plate. But that's only if you properly wash the vegetables you plan on eating. You never know which produce you bring home will be completely covered in pesticides. And the bad news is that some types are far more apt to be swimming in pesticides than others.

Don't Eat These Fruits and Vegetables Without Washing Them First

LiveScience

Panda ants are actually wasps masquerading as an adorable ant, with black and white females possessing stingers half as long as their entire bodies.

Panda ant: The wasps whose black and white females have giant stingers and parasitic babies

Irvine, CA

NewSantaAna

A check from an Irvine business was intercepted from the mail around May 3, according to the Irvine Police Department . This man is suspected of depositing the stolen check into an ATM account. The investigation is ongoing, but it would be helpful to the investigation to identify this suspect.

Man wanted for stealing a $20K check in Irvine and depositing it at an ATM

The Associated Press

Some of the most common questions I’m asked by backyard vegetable growers concern zucchini. The plants either produce like crazy, inspiring memes about gardeners anonymously leaving overflow harvests on their neighbors’ doorsteps, or they don’t produce any zucchini at all. Sometimes, healthy, vigorous plants keel over and...

Playing matchmaker for your zucchini, and other tips for a summer garden favorite

Georgia State

Daily Coffee Press

The chances for the tropical wave in the Atlantic developing have now risen to 80% over the next seven days. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has advised that this disturbance could become the next tropical storm or hurricane within the coming days, potentially targeting the U.S. East Coast.

Tropical Wave That Could Impact Georgia Now Has 80% Chance of Development

Ocilla, GA

Last Thursday, agents from the South Central Drug Task Force (SCDTF) made an arrest following a successful execution of a search warrant at a residence in Ocilla. According to officials, the search yielded a significant quantity of drugs, including tablets suspected to contain fentanyl, associated with a criminal street gang.

Successful Drug Bust in Ocilla Leads to Arrest Linked to 'Local Criminal Street Gang'

Washington State

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Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. Incident Summary: On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, during the 3m springboard preliminaries at the Olympic Games in Paris, American diver Alison Gibson faced an unfortunate incident that led to a score of 0.0. Competing to secure a place in the semi-finals, the 25-year-old Texas-born athlete experienced a collision with the diving board that significantly impacted her performance.

Heart-Stopping Moment: Alison Gibson’s Dive Ends in Disaster at the 2024 Olympics

On Martha’s farm, we are currently growing over 100 pepper plants. Peppers are a great crop because they are relatively easy to care for, few pests and diseases bother them, and they continue to grow and produce fruit no matter how hot summer gets. But the main reason we love planting peppers at the farm is the variety. The fruit comes in many different sizes, colors, flavors, and heat levels—there is much more to peppers than just bells and jalapeños.

How to Harvest Peppers the Right Way, According to Martha’s Head Gardener

Gardening Know How

August is the ideal time to plant many cool-weather vegetables that can be harvested through fall and into winter. Get sowing with our essential planting guide.

15 Vegetables To Plant In August – For An Abundant Fall Harvest

Common milkweed pods are a native vegetable that could be as familiar at summer greenmarkets as okra. As a food, milkweed still resides on the foraging fringes, or on rare restaurant menus, despite having been valued by Native Americans in regions throughout its range. Like okra, milkweed pods herald sweltering weather and are ready to harvest when crickets warm up and cicadas begin to zing. While succulent okra originates in Africa, and is grown as an annual crop in the United States, common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) is a cold-hardy perennial indigenous to eastern North America. It has edible shoots, buds, flowers, and immature pods. And it is one of the most valuable milkweed hosts for monarch butterfly larvae.

Milkweed Pods: A Native Summer Vegetable to Grow, Cook, and Eat

Real Simple

With a little TLC, you can help them flourish.

5 Reasons Your Roses Aren't Blooming—and How to Bring Them Back

While there are plenty of beneficial insects and cute mammals in your yard, there are also a lot of garden pests. These can be insects wanting to dine on your vegetables, or they can be animals who've decided to dig underneath your garden's foundation, like gophers. Of course, not all...

11 Garden Pests That Are Eating Your Plants—and How to Stop Them

Chicago, IL

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Newark, NJ

Paterson, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Jasmine McGregor, 32, and Jhenelle Lewis, 35, both of Paterson, New Jersey, have pleaded guilty to conspiring with a physician to distribute oxycodone, a powerful opioid, without legitimate medical justification. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger.

Paterson Residents Conspired with Physician to Illegally Distribute Opioids

WEKU

Colorado corn growers are testing a variety of new methods to combat the spread of moths, including a sexually transmitted virus that makes the insect's offspring infertile.

Worms are infecting Colorado's sweet corn. Moths with STDs could help

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