Just as we have adopted the use of pests into our everyday 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 to...
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...
It appears I spoke too soon when I mentioned in my previous ants in the garden blog that I don’t have ants in my home! Murphy’s law isn’t it that I now have ants crawling on the carpet just...
“Sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite” – When I was little I always thought this was a rather sweet little saying and never questioned what bed bugs actually were. Now, knowing what I do about bed bugs...
With the weather slowly warming up, I am starting to see more and more ants in my garden – not my house (thankfully!). Nevertheless I am already blaming an ant nest for destroying my Euonymus shrub. And, the other...
I don’t know about you, but I have a real bird control problem in my garden. But I wouldn’t want to take any advice from these movies: 1. The Bird’s : The Hitchcock film “The Birds” shows us how...