Monthly Archives: July 2017

Insect Hollywood: Household Pests Made for the Big Screen

You’ve been given hundreds of million dollars to write, produce and direct a movie, carte blanche- except for one catch. Your benefactor has a specific idea in mind for your foray into Hollywood: they want the lead role to go to a – wait for it – bug. A six legged, creepy, crawly bug.

The Peculiar World of Pigeon Racing

Pigeons are subject to our scorn, and for good reason. They’re impossible to get rid of, and they carry a multitude of diseases such as salmonella, histoplasmosis, encephalitis, toxoplasmosis, cryptococcosis and psittacosis.

There’s no doubt about it, pigeons are pests.

A Raccoon’s Guide to Avoiding Humans

We’re living in a human world, where they have wildlife and critter control specialists, and there’s nothing we can do about that. We eat their scraps, and we live on their streets. But that doesn’t mean we have to sit idly by and let them walk all over us.