Author: Daniel Brooks

Termites are the one pest where do-it-yourself has a real ceiling, and pretending otherwise is how people lose a house. You can spot-treat termites you can physically... Read more.

If you keep finding spiders along the baseboards, the best spider traps are plain flat glue boards, because they do two jobs no spray can: they tell you what you... Read more.

A natural spider repellent like peppermint oil can genuinely keep spiders off a surface you have sprayed, but the effect is short-lived, so the only way it works... Read more.

If your basement keeps growing webs no matter how many you knock down, the problem is not the spiders, it is the conditions. Basements draw spiders because they... Read more.

If spiders keep turning up in your house, the thing to understand first is why they are there: they came in hunting the other bugs. That makes the lasting fix exclusion... Read more.

If you keep finding fire ant mounds in the lawn, the honest answer is that no single product does the whole job. The cheap first move costs nothing: walk the yard... Read more.

If ants keep streaming across your counter, a natural spray will scatter the line you can see, but it will not touch the nest those ants came from. Start with what... Read more.

If ants own your lawn and garden beds, the honest answer is that there is no single “best outdoor ant killer.” There are three different jobs, and they... Read more.

If ants are running across the kitchen counter or circling the bathroom sink, the product that actually clears them is an enclosed bait station, not the sticky pad... Read more.

If you have ants marching across the counter, the best ant killer is not the can that drops them on contact. It is a slow bait that matches what your ants are eating... Read more.