Monthly Archives:: June 2022

When you were a kid, who got rid of pests at your home? Was it a cigar-chomping bug guy in coveralls blasting smelly chemicals from a spray rig blaring like a 747 at takeoff? Possibly. Well, at our Midwestern home in the 1970s, our bug guy hated cigars and wouldn’t have been caught dead in… Read more »

The customer in front of me struck a thoughtful pose—one finger pressed to her forehead, the pose in which you see Shakespeare, in pictures of him. She asked:  “Mike, is it possible for ants to….” She paused, but I had heard enough.  “Yes” was the answer to all her questions. Ants are incredible. Yes, the… Read more »

Could a mouse be a mobster? In the movies, I mean.  Yeah, in an animated movie, I think a mouse would make a heck of a mob boss, stuffing a napkin into his collar and wolfing down his mama’s eggplant parmigiana. “Hey, Ma, more parmesan cheese over here!” Don’t try to muscle in on his… Read more »

They say good things come in threes, but what about bad things? Better yet, what about mountain pests?  Here’s my list of the critters dominating mountain cabins these days. Ants — Few people think about ants until a platoon of the beasties invades their bowl of fancy imported chocolates. Mind you, I don’t blame ants for… Read more »