My relationship with birds is completely two-sided. On the one hand you have the odious pigeons and seagulls……and on the other hand you have majestic red kites, adorable red robins, beautiful owls, the colourful blue tit – I think...
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This sentence has been engrained in my mind since school, but don’t worry I am certainly not about to launch into a blog about Newton’s laws of motion –...
Just as we have adopted the use of pests into our every day language, especially in similes like ‘you dirty rat’, so have certain pests been adopted to represent all manner of things from the names of pop bands...
What a sight that would be! Pests working out in your local gym? Well, it would certainly get my attention, and make a welcome change to only having the television to stare at! But which pest would you see...
Winged ants. Ants with wings. Flying ants. Whatever you want to call them, the time of year has arrived. Flying ants are coming to a town near you. You have been warned! Although maybe not today seeing as its...
Until my unfortunate wasp sting last weekend I don’t recall being stung by a wasp for many, many years. My earliest memory of wasp stings is from my childhood (like Danusia’s wasp story) and my Hungarian grandmother insisting on dabbing...