Author: Daniel Brooks

If you are seeing boxelder bugs, the fight is on the outside of your house, not the inside. These black-and-red insects swarm sunny south- and west-facing walls... Read more.

If boxelder bugs and Asian lady beetles are gathering on your house in fall, the fix that actually works is an exterior treatment on the sunny walls where they cluster,... Read more.

Wasps pick your house for the same two reasons every spring: a sheltered spot to build under, and easy food nearby. The way to keep nests off your property is to... Read more.

If carpenter bees are drilling into your eaves or deck rail, the move that actually solves it is to redirect and exclude them, not exterminate them, because these... Read more.

If you have found a wasp nest on the house, the safe play is not bravery, it is timing and a planned retreat. Treat the nest at dusk, when the colony is home and... Read more.

If you just got stung, the first move costs nothing and matters more than any product: get the stinger out fast by scraping it sideways with a fingernail or card... Read more.

If wasps are ruining the patio, a trap helps, but only if you understand what it actually does. A wasp trap thins out the foraging wasps and yellowjackets cruising... Read more.

There is no single best wasp spray, only the right can used the right way, and the right way is from a distance with a long-range jet, at dusk when the wasps are... Read more.

If scorpions keep turning up inside, the honest answer is that nothing about the house itself is pulling them in. Scorpions are drawn to the insects they hunt, the... Read more.

If you live in scorpion country, the fastest way to find them is not to flip over rocks in the daylight. Scorpions fluoresce a vivid blue-green under ultraviolet... Read more.