You have certainly heard that tongue twister before. "How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" That is a good question. Do woodchucks chuck wood? And what exactly does "chucking" wood mean? And if they do, then how much wood can they chuck

Mosquito Control Tips: Eliminate areas of standing water around the home such as flowerpots, birdbaths, baby pools, grill covers and other objects where water collects. Mosquitoes need only about a � inch of water to breed.

The Internet is full of blogs and articles that tell of spiders that can eat some mammals. There are some excessively large tarantulas that can put down creatures that possess an even greater body mass than the spiders themselves. YouTube is full of disturbing videos showing tarantulas, such as the aptly named goliath-bird eater, chowing down on mice and rats, but have you ever heard of a spider that can eat a bat

When you think of natures most gifted swimmers you will likely picture some type of fish, or perhaps a tadpole, or some type of water-dwelling creature. As it happens, there are indeed certain types of insects that spend a majority, if not all of their time, within bodies of water. One such insect, the whirligig beetle

A school was recently closed on account of a false widow sighting. Experts are saying that false widow spider populations are increasing, but is this a reasonable thing to be concerned about? According to experts, false widow bites are venomous, but being bitten is rare

There are likely not too many American adults who have not heard of Lyme disease. Many of us have at least one relative who has Lyme disease, and we know from either our own personal experiences, or the stories told by victims, that contracting Lyme disease can change a life, and usually not for the better. Lyme disease causes flu-like symptoms that never go away, so if you can, avoid ticks. Despite many people having heard of the disease, there are a few misconceptions some people have about the disease. Most people may not know anything about Lyme disease beyond the fact that the bacteria that causes the disease is carried by ticks. Each year the Centers for Disease Control counts around thirty thousand Americans as having contracted Lyme disease. But little do many know, some people can get the disease from a tick without having any memory

The year of 2016 saw a lot of insects causing devastation worldwide. If it is not the Zika virus, then it's invasive insect pests. One particular insect-pest that has caused a considerable amount of trouble is known as the bark beetle. The bark beetle happens to be one of the most damaging insect-pests that exist in the world today. However, a music professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a researchers from Northern Arizona University, may introduce the world to an instrument that will fix

Very few people get excited about spotting an opossum in the wild. In fact, opossums would likely scare any person who spotted one, especially young children. This is because opossums are strange and very different looking mammals. Not many mammals in the wild are sporting frightening fangs, and a menacing sneer, which seems to be the expression that an opossum's natural resting face shows. It would not surprise you to hear that opossums deserve more respect, but not many mammals alive today can claim to have been around when the dinosaurs

Imagine going out to check your mail in the morning, only to find a foot long huntsman spider, and a bunch of her spiderlings, right before you stick your hand into your mailbox. Well, that has never happened before as far as I am aware. However, there was a good long period of time when a particular mailman could have experienced this unfortunate scenario. One curious women decided to allow a female huntsman spider to go on living within her mailbox until it was well enough to live on its own again. Apparently this woman did not find it necessary to notify her mailman. For weeks a spider enthusiast, Natasha Joyce, allowed a huntsman spider to start a family within her mailbox. Initially, she had planned on the mailbox being only a temporary comfort for the spider, but over the course of several days, the giant spider grew on the woman, and she could not let it go. Eventually, several people from her neighborhood began visiting the spider family in droves regularly. As time went on several visitors began noticing that an egg-sac was present within the mailbox, which fascinated and terrified many neighbors. Some neighbors were concerned that the spiderlings would procreate in the region, which could result in some garden-eaters making their way to the neighbors yard. Eventually, several people, mostly kids, banned together in order to collectively build a spider-nursery within the mailbox. At this point, some parents from around the neighborhood did not want their kids visiting the spider, due to its potentially damaging bite. Mrs. Joyce decided to call a professional entomologist employed at a museum in order to ascertain the risk that the huntsman might pose to others. Luckily, despite its enormous size, the huntsman spider possesses venom that is far from potent. However, mother huntsman spiders are well known to become super-aggressive while protecting her spiderlings. Luckily, nobody from the neighborhood was attacked by any giant huntsman spiders. Have you ever seen a huntsman spider inside of your home? How did you remove it from you home?