Last week I introduced you to my neighborhood’s Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) conundrum: Choose between synthetic or organic […]
Category Archive: Insects and Wildlife
It started with a question posted to our neighborhood forum: “Looking for a company to treat our landscape […]
Gardeners are quick to claim Thomas Jefferson as one of our own. An ardent horticulturist, Jefferson sought plants […]
I’ve grown weary of living in fear of things I can’t see. Happily, the North Carolina Department of […]
Two things incur Kit’s wrath when it comes to gardening: certain wildlife and nurseries that sell the wrong […]
Tales of invaders overwhelming and displacing locals repeats throughout history — change the continent, species, and timeline but […]
I had my suspicions. The tracks, the teeth marks, the molested strawberries — it suggested rabbits. A motion-activated […]
Gardening employs euphemistic language to describe some occasionally ugly business. Recently I’ve been engaged in “mechanical removal.” It’s […]
Kit has turned into Mr. McGregor. She’s not sure when she transitioned from rooting for Peter Rabbit to […]
Toward the end of the 20th century, homeowners noticed a new winter houseguest: the Asian lady beetle. Confusion […]