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Posts tagged “insects & pests”

Good Questions: What Are These Bugs?
New York

Allergy Luxe Bed Bug Barrier Bedding

Bed Bath & Beyond has started to market a "bed bug barrier" mattress and pillow protector. Regular readers of AT are familiar with some of the bed bug horror stories out there, but we're curious to ...

Insect Citronella Candles by Two's Company

ATSF's post yesterday on Citronella Bucket Candles from Crate & Barrel reminded us to share these: Insect Citronella Candles by Two's Company......

BEEFY Home & Garden Tool Source: Forestry Suppliers, Inc.
Email from 6.10.08

Looking at garden catalogs is an annual occasion at our house. While it's usually window shopping and imagining "WHAT IF WE LIVED IN THE COUNTRY", tucked away inside are always a few super cool, use...

Fly Swatter Stunner by Rosendahl

This is a fly swatter for those of you who feel bad killing insects. The swatter, designed by Erik Bagger for Rosendahl, will not squash the insect but only stun it......

Squirrels in the Flower Boxes

When we woke up this morning, a squirrel had rummaged around in one of our flower boxes, upturning the herbs that were starting to sprout. We remembered Matt's Showdown last year, and quickly turned t...

Butterfly Coffee Table by Alexander Taylor

Tables aflutter. This Butterfly coffee table was created by Alexander Taylor for Zanotta......

Blogging New York Magazine
The Everything Guide To Pests

We've Got The Willies! The Apartment Therapy community has had its share of battles with bedbugs, mice and ants. The newest issue of New York Magazine features The Everything Guide to Pests and offe...

The Mouse Hunter: Foiled Again

We are Mouse Warrior. Yesterday we posted a very personal question under an assumed name: Good Questions: What's the Best Way to Catch a Mouse?. You were all incredibly kind in your responses (7...

Bedbugs Take Manhattan #8

They're baaaaack! Amanda pulled us aside this morning at the cafe where we both go for coffee and handed us the bodybag atop. A fresh casualty of her war with bedbugs. "I found another one last nigh...

Bedbugs Take Manhattan #7

Nobody died. Unlike Harry Potter, the end of Amanda's fabulous bedbug story comes without any great drama, and perhaps a little romance. You may remember that her apartment became infested last mont...

Fly and Wasp Catchers at Smith & Hawken

Picnics invaded by flies? We like these tree-hung fly & wasp catchers at Smith & Hawken. ...

Bedbugs Take Manhattan #6

Bedbugs at rest. The immediate drama settled down yesterday as Amanda returned home for the night and slept through undisturbed on her new vinyl mattress cover. Although her home is spartan and empty ...

Bedbugs Take Manhattan #5

Amanda didn't sleep at home last night. The exterminator finally arrived (scheduled for noon, came at 5pm) and the work began in earnest. Before he arrived, however, she got a chance to visit her neig...

Bedbugs Take Manhattan #4

Amanda didn't show up for work today. Over the weekend, the bedbug situation got suddenly worse, and she barely slept. She called us to give us the lowdown: "Basically, on Friday night, I woke up an...

Bedbugs Take Manhattan #3

Though your votes were split, Amanda let herself be the sacrificial lamb last night, and King Kong did not come. Or rather, Mr. Bedbug didn't come. Mr. Mosquito did. She washed all of her bedlinens ...

Bedbugs Take Manhattan!

This is breaking news. Within one of the homes previously toured on AT (don't even try guessing), a bedbug has been found (see above) within the past 24 hours, after more than a week of reported bit...

How To: Get Rid of Ants

Is anything more frustrating than an ant infestation? At this time of year, lots of people encounter the little pests... ...

The True Story on Bedbugs

In our book we mentioned bedbugs, and received an urgent letter from S. in Chicago with a correction and an explanation of exactly how bedbugs work. S. in Chicago is a bedbug victim and knows far more...

Best Products: Sticky Fly Ribbon

When confronted with the many irritations brought on by the insect kingdom, there is often little we can do to preserve our comfort and even less that we can do that is not toxic. For both of these r...

It's Really Not Kosher...

Reported in today's Times, There's Something in the Water, and It May Not Be Strictly Kosher, it seems that our drinking water is getting a bashing from an unlikely source: Alei Katif, a company bas...

Retro Bedbug Uprising

"New York City has been hit particularly hard...." NY1 reports today that 500 bedbug cases have been reported this year, up from, well, near-extinction in recent memory. Apparently the bugs hide in ...

Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

Rats! Rats! Rats! How is that for a headline? Reviewed in yesterday's Times, Robert Sullivan's new book on Rats is not a detailed history, but a "quixotic and often arbitrary meditation" on the rat, ...