Make a Bee-Friendly Watering Hole for Your Garden
While we’ve all been focused on growing a bee-friendly habitat in our gardens by planting pollinator friendly varieties, there’s something else that’s vital to the health of bees that often…
The Difference Between Grasshoppers and Crickets (and How to Prevent Both From Invading Your Home This Fall)
Photo: Andrea Izzotti (Shutterstock) Outside, the sound of grasshoppers and crickets chirping adds to the ambiance—especially in the summertime. But indoors, that noise can get annoying very quickly. Plus, while…
How to Find an Ant Nest
Photo: Denis Vesely (Shutterstock) Ants in your home is always a cause for concern. Aside from the appearance of a long wriggling trail of ant soldiers just looking gross, ants…
How to Keep Flies Away From Your Yard (and Out of Your House)
Photo: Nikul6533 (Shutterstock) It’s summer, and that means one thing: wretched goddamn flies getting all up in my yard, ruining my barbecues. How can I keep them away this year,…
Mosquito Repelling Plants Are a Lie
Photo: CharMoment (Shutterstock) You really can’t go anywhere on the internet without running into lists of the 17 or 25 best mosquito repelling plants, or mosquito repelling plants that are…
Does Stepping on Ants Actually Attract More Ants?
Photo: RHJPhtotos (Shutterstock) Every year around this time, as my house doors open, we begin to subsist on the fresh air of spring through our window screens, and the kids…
The Easiest Way to Cook a Whole Bunch of Shrimp
Seafood has the reputation for being finicky, easy to overcook, and expensive, but that’s only partially true when it comes to shrimp. A bag of frozen shrimp is relatively cost…
The 5 Worst Bugs to Find in Your House (and 5 That Aren’t So Bad)
Photo: Sushaaa (Shutterstock) Bees are nice. Bees do not want to bother you. Bees just want to make honey and feed it to their children, who in turn want the…
Do You Really Need to Devein Shrimp?
Photo: Gayvoronskaya_Yana (Shutterstock) Most needs are actually deep wants. I don’t need Maldon salt, but my scrambled eggs aren’t the same without the crunchy flakes. I don’t need to remove…
You Should Stop Killing House Centipedes (But How to Get Rid of Them, If You Must)
Photo: laksena (Shutterstock) I get it: House centipedes travel at alarming speeds, and they look pretty intimidating while doing it, what with all their legs scampering about. But before you…