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Category Archive: Insects and Wildlife

Trades made

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Last week I introduced you to my neighborhood’s Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) conundrum: Choose between synthetic or organic […]

Lise Jenkins August 20, 2020 Articles, Insects and Wildlife

Garden trade-offs

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It started with a question posted to our neighborhood forum: “Looking for a company to treat our landscape […]

Lise Jenkins August 13, 2020 Articles, Insects and Wildlife

Choices echo over time

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Gardeners are quick to claim Thomas Jefferson as one of our own. An ardent horticulturist, Jefferson sought plants […]

Lise Jenkins June 4, 2020 Articles, Insects and Wildlife, Plants

A foe we can see

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I’ve grown weary of living in fear of things I can’t see. Happily, the North Carolina Department of […]

Lise Jenkins May 7, 2020 Articles, Insects and Wildlife

Wrath

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Two things incur Kit’s wrath when it comes to gardening: certain wildlife and nurseries that sell the wrong […]

Lise Jenkins December 12, 2019 Articles, Insects and Wildlife

Invaders

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Tales of invaders overwhelming and displacing locals repeats throughout history — change the continent, species, and timeline but […]

Lise Jenkins August 1, 2019 Articles, Insects and Wildlife

Who’s there?

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I had my suspicions. The tracks, the teeth marks, the molested strawberries — it suggested rabbits. A motion-activated […]

Lise Jenkins May 29, 2019 Articles, Insects and Wildlife

The satisfying squish

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Gardening employs euphemistic language to describe some occasionally ugly business. Recently I’ve been engaged in “mechanical removal.” It’s […]

Lise Jenkins May 23, 2019 Articles, Insects and Wildlife

Rethinking ‘Peter Rabbit’

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Kit has turned into Mr. McGregor. She’s not sure when she transitioned from rooting for Peter Rabbit to […]

Lise Jenkins May 2, 2019 Articles, Insects and Wildlife

Asian lady beetles

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Toward the end of the 20th century, homeowners noticed a new winter houseguest: the Asian lady beetle. Confusion […]

Lise Jenkins November 1, 2018 Articles, Insects and Wildlife

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