NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere later today after almost six years of orbiting earth to measure pollution. But now the tables have been turned and huge chunks of metal will be littering...
It’s National Kiss Day and pigeons top the romantic pests list. Pigeons have a complicated courtship sealed with a special pigeon kiss. Pigeons mate for life and are thoroughly modern parents who share parental responsibility, including childcare and foraging...
Silverfish are silver, torpedo shaped insects that move lightening quick. They creep out from their cracks and crevices at night and adverse to light they scarper back to their hidey-holes when a light is snapped on. Silverfish have a...
If a fly had a career it would be a racing car driver. The annoying pest can change course in as little as 30 thousandths of a second and nearly has a 360 degree field of vision, making swotting...
Every summer car owners have to make tough decisions about parking. Do you leave your car under the shady tree and hope the birds won’t christen your car with their foul poop, or do you choose the sunny parking...
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...