Author: Daniel Brooks

If you are standing in the hardware store deciding whether to buy a bug bomb, here is the short answer: skip it for almost every pest. Total-release foggers, the... Read more.

A sticky glue board is the most honest pest tool you own, because it does not repel, poison, or promise miracles, it simply catches whatever walks across it. That... Read more.

If you are buying a bug zapper to clear mosquitoes off the patio, save your money, because that is the one job it does not do. A zapper kills the nuisance flyers... Read more.

Diatomaceous earth earns its place because it kills crawling insects mechanically: the fine powder abrades the waxy coat that holds their moisture in, so they dry... Read more.

The best outdoor perimeter pest control puts a treated band exactly where insects cross to get inside, the foundation, the doorways, and the first few feet of soil... Read more.

If you want the best bug spray for the house, there is no single can that wins, only the right spray for the job in front of you. A good indoor spray buys you a... Read more.

The best insect repellent is not a brand, it is an EPA-registered active ingredient applied to all of your exposed skin, and for most people that means picaridin... Read more.

A single chirping cricket somewhere in the house is maddening because the chirp seems to move around and stops the instant you walk toward it, and that is not your... Read more.

If camel crickets are springing at you every time you go down to the basement, the good news is that you do not have a true infestation, you have a moisture problem.... Read more.

If you keep finding crickets indoors, the thing to understand is where they are coming from. Crickets in the house are almost always walking in from outside, pulled... Read more.