There are many ways to kill bugs, but there are not at all many ways to kill bugs that do not also kill everything around them. This has proven to be a headache for many pet owners, but just as often it disrupts the lives of plant owners as well. And whereas pets bring in …
As an indoor gardener, you know just how delicate houseplants can be. From African violets to the jade plant family, there are many indoor plant varieties that must be grown with the utmost care. So when you spot a tiny bug crawling on the leaves or soil of your plant, you know you’ll have to …
Five hundred million years ago there was a time period known as the “Cambrian Period”. This is the first period of the first eon of the first era in which life existed on earth. What does a period, an eon, or an era mean? If a period is a minute, then an eon is an …
There are two kinds of people who ask this question: People who believe the answer will be simple, and people who believe the answer will be complicated. Both are looking to confirm their belief. Both are wanting to make sure that they are right before they commit to a course of action that could harm …
It is odd to imagine them as such, but plants can be deceptive. Not deceptive in the ways humans are. They are not going to misrepresent themselves or communicate using ambiguity or half-truths. No, quite the opposite. Plants cannot represent themselves, nor can they deliberately communicate anything. That is what makes them so difficult to …
Whenever someone is new to indoor gardening, they usually stick to feeding their plants with the classic components found in nature: Water and sunlight. If they are particularly spicy, they might try fertilizer. But nine times out of ten, they are not even going to research into what is the best food for indoor plants. …
Many strange things have been observed about ants. It is commonly known that ants can lift fifty times their own body weight. But less commonly known is that the biomass of all the ants in the world is roughly equal to the biomass of all the humans in the world. This means that ants could …
