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Flora & Fauna

Trumpet Creeper

Trumpet Creeper

By: Lirian Davidson, Journalist
Tubular in shape, trumpet creepers are viewed as beautiful flowers. With colors reminiscent of sunsets like reddish-orange and golden yellows. They grow in long wood-like vines and spread like wildfire.
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Calico Aster

Calico Aster

By: Lirian Davidson, Journalist
Aster is a daisy, commonly blue or purple; it means star. Asters and Morning Glories are also seen as one of the September birth flowers.
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The Common Pawpaw

The Common Pawpaw

By: Lirian Davidson, Journalist
The pawpaw might sound like an unusual name, but it made sense to the Portuguese explorer who found it.
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The Northern Spicebush & Spicebush Swallowtail

The Northern Spicebush & Spicebush Swallowtail

By: Lirian Davidson, Journalist
The Northern Spicebush’s namesake is its signature spicy scent. It blooms in colors of white, yellow, and green. It tends to have few stems and flowers in clusters.
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Butterfly Milkweed

By: Lirian Davidson, Journalist
I'm sure most people reading this have heard of milkweed and how it's good for butterflies at least once. You may have heard about the mass migration of butterflies to Mexico. However, the difference between Butterfly and normal milkweed is that Butterfly milkweed sap does not have the same characteristics as normal milkweed.
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Pinxterbloom Azalea

Pinxterbloom Azalea

By: Lirian Davidson, Journalist
Sounds like a medicine doesn’t it? It’s actually a beautiful flower that also goes by the name Pinksterbloom Azalea or Pinxterbloom Azalea depending on who you ask.
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a field with yellow flowers and trees in the background

Seventh Grade Hidden Oaks Field Trip

By: Shiryu Gibson, Journalist
The Hidden Oaks Nature Center is a field trip for the 7th grade to learn about science. The people who went on the field trip had five stations.
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What Happens If Mosquitos Go Extinct?

By: Kevin Le, Reporter
As summer starts to come, mosquitos have slowly come out with it. Have you ever thought about killing every single one of these annoying bugs?
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Fireflies And How They Are Able To Light Up

By: Taryn Heuvelman, Journalist
Fireflies are magnificent creatures that miraculously are able to light up.
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Engineering Breakthrough for Pets

Engineering Breakthrough for Pets

By: John Stevens, Journalist
Engineering has helped advancement in the medical field. We are now able to properly diagnose our pets and even give them prosthetics inexpensively.
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Image Source: "Panda" by George Lu is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Pandas

By: Erick Molina-Diaz, Journalist
Pandas are one of the laziest creatures ever.  They're also unintelligent.  They eat bamboo even though it's not nutritious so they have to eat 26 to 84 pounds of bamboo to maintain healthy and don't die of starvation.
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"17-year Cicada (Northern Virginia, USA)" by thepeachpeddler is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Cicada Ice Cream

By: Madeline Seminaro, Journalist
You know when bugs get in your drink or food? Imagine bugs being put in your food and then you purposefully eat it? Apparently, that's what people do when they eat cicada ice cream.
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