When conditions are just right, when dry conditions that delay spider hatching are followed closely by heavy rains causing dramatic increases in airborne spider food like mosquitoes, spider populations can explode as massive numbers of new hatchlings appear simultaneously. When… Read More ›
Darlings, when it comes to Halloween decor, there is nothing I find more appealing than a haunted house. There is a certain spooky elegance to places long abandoned, where strange and unsettling things are found in lonely corners: candles half-burned… Read More ›
Imagine the walls of your room suddenly come alive with shadowy vines, twisting up huge to the sky, like some Jack-and-the-Beanstalk fairy tale springing to dark life before your eyes. Or perhaps they are the fierce, enchanted guardians of Sleeping… Read More ›
The Year of Halloween 