I love birds. Well, sort of. I love birds out in the wild, soaring over the highveld or at the beach. I don’t love birds quite so much when they are sitting on the ledge of my window at...
Our night skies are filled with these gentle, secretive, flying mammals – going about their business of keeping insects and mosquitoes under control. Most of us are unaware of the presence of bats and have never come into contact...
There are roughly 16,000 types of fly species in Southern Africa, but the three most common flies affecting pubs, bars, restaurants, and other food establishments are house flies, bluebottles and – the most irritating of all – fruit flies....
One of the nation’s favourite public holidays is next week: September the 24th is Heritage Day, or Braai Day as it has affectionately become known. And in large parts of the country, the weather is already warm enough to...
In our previous blog post on the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, we provided some information on how pests like the Stink Bug, Asian Gypsy Moth, and Shot Hole Borer Beetles can be transferred via cargo from one country to...
Have you ever been to a food market and seen stallholders with a seethrough plastic bag of water hanging over their food displays? Or seen houses with old compact disks (CD’s) hanging in the windows, and wondered “what are...