Anybody who’s ever enjoyed a cold beverage outside on a warm day in the Vancouver-Portland Metro area knows all too well how common bees, wasps, and other stinging pests are in our area. And while it’s easy to lump all flying stingers together, there’s more than one important difference between bees and yellow jackets to […]
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When you wake up to find red, itchy welts on your skin, it’s only natural that your first thought will go to the most obvious culprit: mosquitoes. But what if the perpetrator is something far smaller and more difficult to spot? With bed bugs increasingly being reported in Oregon and Washington, you need to know
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We’ve all heard the nursery rhyme, “Itsy Bitsy Spider,” perhaps so much so that we know its tune and words by heart. But chances are, if you live in Oregon or Washington, you know that our spiders aren’t always so itsy bitsy, nor are they fun to have around. While spiders offer a number of
