Author: Daniel Brooks

If house flies keep showing up no matter how many you swat, the real problem is not the flies in the air; it is whatever they are breeding in. House flies are a... Read more.

An electric fly swatter is genuinely handy for the one fly buzzing your kitchen, and an indoor light zapper earns a spot in a garage or porch, but neither one solves... Read more.

A fly spray drops the flies it hits on contact, and that is about all it does. It leaves no lasting barrier flies care about, and it does nothing about the maggots... Read more.

A fly trap is worth owning, but it is half the answer at best. A trap catches the adult flies already in or around your home, and it will never keep up on its own,... Read more.

If you want to keep carpet beetles out, you have to think about what their larvae eat, because the adults you see on the windowsill are not the problem. Preventing... Read more.

Before you spray anything, find out whether the powderpost beetles are still active, because most of what people panic over is old damage from beetles that left... Read more.

If you keep finding small beetles on the windowsill, the adults are not your problem. Carpet beetles are a larvae problem, and the larvae do not live out in the... Read more.

If you are fighting powderpost beetles, the treatment that actually works is a borate brushed into bare wood, not a can of bug spray. The larvae feed deep inside... Read more.

A carpet beetle trap is a sticky glue monitor, not a pheromone magnet like the traps made for moths, so it will not pull beetles in from across the house or end... Read more.

The best carpet beetle killer is not a spray at all, it is a vacuum, because the damage in your closet is done by the larvae, the little bristly woolly-bears hiding... Read more.