Pests

Some of the biggest pests you’ll have to deal with on your homestead, year in and year out, are the humble flies. They may be humble, but boy are they annoying! Aside from zipping around to confuse and annoy you, flies spread disease and can contaminate food in the kitchen and the dining room. No […]

I love all creatures on Earth, great and small. Well, actually, that love has limits, and the limit starts with spiders. Scuttling, hairy, fanged, eight-legged freaks! Ugh, they make my skin want to crawl right off my body! If you’re like me or one of the millions and millions of people who suffer from arachnophobia,

If you’ve ever had a mouse infestation in your house, you know how much these little rodents can ruin your life. But it can always get worse: you could get a rat infestation! Rats do all of the same things that mice do, they just make things even worse! If you are hearing scratchings in

It starts with a subtle scratching sound. Then you might hear some skittering and clunking in the walls or ceiling one night. Then, one evening – what was that!? – did you see it or imagine it? No, there it is again! A flicker of movement along the baseboards in your den. You aren’t crazy

Mice start out as a very small problem when they get in your house, but they quickly turn into a big one. They reproduce extremely quickly, and each and every mouse that is born will spread disease through your home, chew on wires, punch holes in your walls, spoil food and generally be a giant

Mice are often beneath notice, moving invisibly as they do through fields, lawns, and brush piles. But they are only beneath notice when they are outside your home. Once they get inside your house, you’ll know they are there. Believe me! Mice will scurry and scratch around in your home, breaking into food, chewing wires

Bird feeders are one of the best ways to bring a little life to your backyard, and it never gets old seeing what kind of birds show up to get a little snack. Fortunately, birds aren’t the only thing that will show up at your feeders. Rats happen to be some of the most persistent

Rats and mice are an inseparable and necessary part of the natural world, that much is certain. But what else is certain is that absolutely nobody likes them when they are part of our human world. Or at least, when they’re an uninvited party! They cause damage, stink up your home, and spread disease, a

Mice are a big, big problem. Sure, they might be cute and charismatic, but that’s only when you’re looking at them on your phone or in the terrarium. When mice get into your house, or infest your outbuildings, you are going to have issues… No matter how you might feel about them, the mice just

Mice might be tiny and adorable, but they are big problems if they get inside your home. Mice will relentlessly break into food, contaminate every surface they touch, spread disease, and generally just cause problems. However you feel about their place in nature, that’s exactly where they need to be: out in nature, not in