How long a cicada lives as an adult depends on the species, but the answer could be from a matter of seconds, if the cicada dies due to predation or an accident, to more than a month. Cicadas are primarily subterranean plant (mostly tree) parasites and only enter their above-ground, ad...
Cockroaches love to reside in crevices, so sealing any gaps or cracks around your house can go a long way in preventing their entry. Be vigilant about checking the items you bring into your home, such as grocery bags or boxes, as they can be a way for cockroaches to hitch a ride ...
Cicadas 2024: Here's how to take care of your yard during cicada season, including mowing your lawn at dawn or dusk, protecting young trees, and more.
Here's how to raise your caterpillar to a butterfly or moth. This article gives advice on feeding and caring for your caterpillar.
Ortho Home Defense Insect Killer for Indoor & Perimeter2 is a bug killer spray that kills the toughest home invading insects, including ants, cockroaches, spiders, fleas, ticks, scorpions, earwigs, silverfish, and periodical cicadas (as listed) Provides a long-lasting bug barrier of up to 12...
Ever wanted to take a year-long nap? The edible dormouse has the ability to stay dormant for up to 11 months straight in the wild. To pull off this feat, the animals need to eat enough to double (or triple) their weight while awake to create enough of a reserve. Fish sleep in susp...
long time. In the 1950s, Bert the Turtle coached schoolchildren across the United States toDuck and Coverto avoid "the atomic bomb." In more recent years, Bear Grylls taught ordinary suburbanites how to stay alive if they, too, should find themselves in the wild, by fossicking foredible ...
While we didn't get any snow here, parts of Minnesota saw nearly a foot of snow over the weekend, much to the delight of this otter.Southeast Minnesota was skipped during the most recent winter storm, with much of the snow falling north of our neck of the woods. Even the Twin Cities...
*** Interestingly, the new Amazon drones are small and shaped like cicadas.~JJL ++++ Thursday’s Top Three Our top story Thursday was Joe Schroeter on Transforming CQG for the Digital Age: From Humble Beginnings to Market Leader, part one ...
the kitchen thatserved us wellduring the pandemic + where a CNN crew shot some footage of our S/Ocooking cicadas. There's also some shots of our living room in that post, where they did the sit-down interview, but the living room (on 2nd floor) will be the subject of next post.....