I don’t have a problem with back pain, but my fiancé does. The poor guy’s back is like one of those topographical maps with ridges stamped into the paper where the mountains are. And it’s a map of a mountainous region. Not long ago, we brought home the World’s Most Expensive Bed, hoping it would [...]

If you’re a pet owner and live anywhere in the vicinity of these black and white little beasts, chances are you have already had to get rid of skunk smell on dogs. Maybe you’re one of the people who tried Febreeze, or beer, or women’s douche (yes), and perhaps you had luck. Perhaps you failed [...]

Why should one want to get rid of high blood pressure? Isn’t it just as American as baseball and apple pie…and watching hours of TV, eating massively huge portions at restaurants, growing pot bellies, and imitating tree sloths - minus the trees? Well, considering that this pastime comes with the strong possibility of heart failure, [...]

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Crabgrass. If you have a lawn or garden, chances are you’re familiar with it. You may even have figured out by now that it’s among the most tenacious of weeds. It quickly claims any open spaces in your lawn (even small ones), and if left unchecked, crabgrass can outcompete desirable turf grass for resources, spreading [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve contributed to the site. I’ve been a bit of a hiatus, working on a new contributor inclusion system and a new business model. But that’s neither here nor there. You’re here to figure out how to get rid of flea beetles. It’s not easy, my friend. Flea beetles are [...]

I never gave slugs much thought until I was 15 and my dad moved from Minnesota to Oregon, where slugs are practically part of the culture. They’re hard to ignore, anyway, since they’re roughly the size of chipmunks and often leopard-spotted and/or bright yellow. But even in Minnesota, where slugs are usually only an inch [...]

If there is such a thing as an ugly tree, I’m quite certain that every opossum in the world has climbed it to the very top with the intent of throwing itself off the highest limb in order to hit every branch on the way down. It’s just the only explanation. And unfortunately, it has [...]

I think my fear of ghosts took hold when I was a kid and spent a lot of nights at my grandparents’ Civil War-era farmhouse. There’s just nothing like an old house with a dank cellar, a seldom-used second story, picture-window views of dark fields, and a few volumes of ghost stories on the bookshelves [...]

Like Amber’s recent article on Asian Beetles, this article is a little sequel to the ever popular “How to Get Rid of Beetles” article. Japanese Beetles are quickly spreading across the United States, from East to West, destroying gardens, trees, shrubs, hedges, and just about anything else that’s green. On top of the insatiable appetite [...]