As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, ...
“OK, I 42 , see you on Saturday,” answered the cockroach, and left without waiting for a 43 . That Saturday everyone went to the beauty competition. The butterfly arrived completely 44 of victory until she saw who the judges were: cockroaches, worms, beetles. All of them preferred the...
It was “much used in salads, with oil, salt, and vinegar,” he said, and he listed over a dozen herbal uses for it, from provoking appetite and soothing toothaches to treating hemorrhoids and “killing worms in small children.” I could go on and on – who knew a weed could be ...
The Almanac Garden Planner - Use It Free for 7 Days! Plan your 2025 garden with our award-winning Garden Planner. Try Now Pest Type Non-Insect Pests Moles are carnivorous, so they eat insects, grubs, or worms—not your plants. Despite this, moles’ digging can damage your garden and law...
Last night the badgers clearly had grubs to dig and worms to devour before the cold sealed them away and this morning , we too had fields to cross before the morning sun turned them back into impressionable mud. “When there is snow ..” ...
About 10 years ago, I’d put out an official bluebird nesting box, along with meal worms. I even followed all the various instructions to attract them. As one of the National Wildlife Federation’scertified wildlife habitats, our garden has food(via the various native berries), water, shelte...
That is, until the worms came. From out of nowhere, it seemed, they began falling on us. Not hundreds, you understand, but enough to give us all the creeps. One time my little sister ran into the house hysterical because she was sure she had worms in her underpants. ...
I wash my own car and mow my own lawns. At the moment I can mow my own front and back lawns. I will pay someone to do it for me when I cannot physically do it myself, till then, I love to do it. I do my own housework. One day I will clean the showers, one day vacuum ...
We have nothing but rock surrounding the house. This year we had so much to do there was no way I was going to move a ton of rock, so this year it’s container gardening up near the house. You can’t see it but this is my wheelbarrow. I love it and can’t believe how it’...
Today this important landscape is home to a wide variety of wildlife including adders and slow worms, plus many other mammals, insects and birds. Lesser Horseshoe Bats have made themselves at home in the rock houses too and were in residence on the day of my last visit. However the Edge ...