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Itsy Bitsy (AKA: Crawling past summer)
It’s October and that means it’s my favorite season of the year: spider season! Living in Georgia (USA), we are still under siege from the invasive Joro spider . It is actually a very pretty spider that builds big orb-shaped webs. While these are beneficial (I am pretty sure we had next to no mosquito issues this summer because of all these webspinners), they are very abundant. People don’t like them near their structures, and there is the “ick” factor of walking through one

Chelle Hartzer
Oct 143 min read


Pucker Up (AKA: Sharing the love)
I’ve had kissing bugs hitting my newsfeed like crazy, so now’s a great time for a primer on bugs. To start with, there are just shy of...

Chelle Hartzer
Sep 303 min read


Halloween Spiders (AKA: Say what?)
Spiders are awesome. There is such amazing diversity in spiders, not just in appearance but in food preferences, habitats, biologies, and...

Chelle Hartzer
Oct 31, 20234 min read


Dungeons and Dragons (AKA: Fighting the good fight)
I saw my first dragon yesterday. It was not in a dungeon though. I think it looks like a dragon, and many folks have no idea what this...

Chelle Hartzer
May 23, 20232 min read


The Invasion has Begun (AKA: Can you smell it?)
As occasionally happens, I have a blog written and ready to go (I typically write my first drafts on Mondays) and something happens and I...

Chelle Hartzer
Oct 4, 20223 min read


Christmas in July? (AKA: Just here chilling...)
Yup, it’s the beginning of July and the start of summer (in the northern hemisphere at least) and with climate change, it has been much...

Chelle Hartzer
Jul 5, 20223 min read


The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (AKA: Sweater weather)
It’s October and that means it’s my favorite season of the year: spider season! Living in Georgia (USA), we are under siege from the...

Chelle Hartzer
Oct 5, 20212 min read


Falling for pests (AKA: They want warmth too!)
Autumn is my favorite season. The leaves are changing, the temps are cooling off, my favorite holiday happens (Halloween!), and campfires...

Chelle Hartzer
Nov 10, 20203 min read
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