Lately as I’ve surfed my favorite mommy blogs, I’ve noticed an interesting trend. Many of my friends are now posting links to Wish Lists on the sidebar of their blogs. Maybe you’ve seen them too. These are literally lists of things they wish they had, from kitchen appliances to jewelry to popular educational books and [...]
While researching my previous post about the top 50 bed bug cities I kept coming across this image of a stuffed bed bug. Needless to say, my curiosity was piqued and I had to find out what kind of innovative/sick-minded company would actually make a stuffed sleeping pal in the form of a parasite that in [...]
Got some crazies in the family tree? Don’t feel too bad. Even the caterpillars have some pretty screwed up relatives…
Happy New Year ya’ll! It’s 2012 and I’m back to writing about bugs. Here’s to another year of endlessly wondering why my two brothers couldn’t have chosen a business with more interesting and varied blog topic potential. That’s okay, I’ve already decided I’ll be spicing things up a bit more around here with Off-Topic [...]
Who would you predict as the champion in this match up? Watch the video below for the surprising outcome. (Note: While it does appear for a moment that things are going to get gory, don’t worry, the camera cut out before I got sick so this is safe to watch to the end.) Crazy, [...]
I love this guy! He’s probably really angry that someone is taking his photo, but it looks more like he’s getting ready to take on Broadway. Want to see more? Just look up the term dancing mantis on google images. If that doesn’t make you smile, there’s probably something wrong with you. Photo from http://pixdaus.com/single.php?id=91561
It was barely a month ago that I published this blog post about the Asian Tiger Mosquito, a species which mysteriously showed up in California after having only been known to exist in the eastern United States 25 years. I gave tips on how to identify this crazy ninja mosquito that attacks repeatedly and aggressively and [...]
Last week I contrasted the two preferred methods of spider removal at my house. To summarize, my husband goes for the more humane trapping-and-setting-free method while I tend to follow scream-and-squish methodology. To advocates of the former method, I urge you: Please do not make the dastardly mistake my husband made last night, whereby in [...]
(illustration by: hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com) There is an ongoing debate at my house about whether it is ethical to kill/squish a spider. My husband would prefer that upon finding a spider in our home, we find a way to trap it humanely and then release it outside so as not to end its life prematurely. I suppose [...]
With all the stink in the news lately about stink bugs, here are a few more exotic species we can all appreciate for their very unique looking back shields. The first two look like man faces, or tribal war masks, if you will. The third, still a stink bug, looks less like a man face [...]
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