bugs

Summer months in New York might be more painful than you remembered. Watch out for these nasty, small, black bugs that bite and cause pain for two weeks.

Welcome to spring where we get warmer weather, probably a little more sunshine, and definitely more bugs! But how many of them are actually bad?

One nice thing about our crazy winters in Upstate New York, we don't generally deal with bugs. Are snow fleas a real bug to deal with?

Honestly, if they wanted to disappear forever - I wouldn't mind. I've found approximately ten just this week in my house.

Here's the top 6 bugs we won't miss this winter in Central New York.

Remember when Murder Hornets were a thing? Apparently, people across Utica, Rome, and Syracuse all thought they've seen them in their backyards this past summer

Continuing our unofficial "Stop Being Afraid of Insects" series, here are 16 pictures of ladybugs. Granted, most people aren't afraid of ladybugs, but they've probably never seen that video of a ladybug taking off in super-slow motion. Or had a house infested with them. They can be pretty disturbing when they're part of a throbbing ladybug mass. But not like this. This is adorable. Read

Generally speaking, we think of moths as the unsettling, night-flying creepster cousin of the butterfly. But *look* at this Emperor Gum Moth! It is at least as cute as a candid shot of a dog. At least. So we scrounged up some more pictures of moths cute enough that we probably wouldn't scream if they made their way into our apartment and started flying into the overhead light...

Generally, when we think of beetles we imagine something black and vaguely menacing, slowly crawling towards our foot. GAH! It turns out, not all beetles are that way.