We joke that the mosquito is the  official “Maine State Bird”. With June comes an invasion, a new generation of insects. And, with all the rain this spring, they will be in record numbers throughout the US. In fact there are over 3,000 species of mosquitoes.  While they feast on  humans, I have read that 1 in 10 [...]

Our wild neighbors are back. They’re big, they’re troublesome and sometimes they’re a bit scary. I’m talking about our neighborhood black bears.
Living in rural New Jersey affords my family and I some very beautiful opportunities to see wildlife. It also means that we have to learn how to live in harmony with these wild neighbors.
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This week, a reader has an issue with vermin. The Chicken Whisperer says it’s all about food storage.

Great footage of a supervised underbrush fire from February 2009 filmed in Levy, South Carolina. To keep wildfire from getting out of control and burning very valuable timber in the coastal South Carolina and Georgia region, it’s advisable to do a controlled burn during the months of January, February and March.