I don’t know about you, but I really, really don’t like rodents run­ning loose, either in my house or on my prop­erty. Pets aside, rodents are not much fun.  Car­ry­ing dis­eases, dig­ging up the land­scape, eat­ing elec­tri­cal wires, bit­ing chil­dren, destroy­ing plant­i­ngs and crops, and drop­ping mouse dirt all over the house are only a […]

OK, I did get in a plug for Valentine’s Day ear­lier this week, but really now, can too many hints be dropped, Dear Valen­tine?  I thought not. Gift giv­ing on Valentine’s Day can be dan­ger­ous busi­ness when it comes to romance and roses, but I’ll get to that in a minute. First a few thoughts […]

  Whew, is there any end to the infor­ma­tion about fire ants? I have writ­ten 5 arti­cles about fire ants now and I haven’t even begun to tell every­thing there is to know. I give up for a while.  It’s time to think about Valentine’s Day. For the guys, I’ll just say this is the most […]