It’s Mosquito Awareness Week. Feel free to send your mosquito related gifts to me. Until they get here, here’s your gift from me: new...

I’ve talked about weather, its effect on pests, and the randomness of some insect “explosions” that happen. This is not like the cicada...

I saw my first dragon yesterday. It was not in a dungeon though. I think it looks like a dragon, and many folks have no idea what this...

It’s halfway through May and that means the grass is getting longer and the weeds are coming in. Literally in many cases because May is...

I grew up in New England (I’m a true Yankee) and one thing I really miss from there is heading to a lobster shack for dinner starting in...

Many of our pest species have seasonal trends. Even if you live in southern climates without much of a temperature shift during the year,...

As occasionally happens, I have a blog written and ready to go (I typically write my first drafts on Mondays) and something happens and I...

Much of the US is under an early heat wave right now. I know where I am, temperatures are much higher than normal for this early in the...

Last week I started writing an article for a trade journal on small flies in food processing and wound up talking about all the food...

Actually, it’s just rain, and it’s morning. But it’s cold and I just want to curl up with a good book and a cup of tea. While I do have...

Charles Darwin once wrote to his friend: I am dying by inches, from not having anybody to talk to about insects. Over the last week, I...

Many of our pest species have seasonal trends. Even if you live in southern climates without much of a temperature shift during the year,...

I remember my first entomology class in college. I was super excited because we had to do an insect collection. This meant I got to be...

It’s a bit chilly in many parts of the US. Not just here, even the Mediterranean had snow recently! One of the many challenges of pest...