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1. Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick, TICKS! When folks and their pets venture into the meadows and forests of our parks and open areas for recreation they may be returning home with unwanted "guests" -- the Ticks Almost any forested or grassy area in the world will have ticks. Ticks are member...
2. Keeping an Emperor Scorpion as a Pet For her 12th birthday, my daughter asked for a pet scorpion. She said her science teacher had a pet scorpion at school, that it glowed bright green under black light, and that it was an interesting pet. I had only had scary encounters with wild scorp...
3. The Amorous Appetites of Adolescents and Arachnids: Sexual Cannibalism in the Australian Redback Spiders (Latrdectus Hasselti) Conflicts between the sexes always bring me back to high school. This was a time of rude awakening in my life, when I first boyfriend taught me that boys and girls have conflicting motives when it comes to love. During one particularly ripe moment of...
4. Squelch the Urge to Squash “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” —Mahatma Gandhi Most bugs in our homes are not harmful. Why kill them? There are plenty of good reasons not to. Instead, relocate...