The state bird in Louisiana might as well be a mosquito and if you hate these pesky, biting insects as much as we do, you can deter them by growing these plants in your garden.
As we dig out from under the collapsed roofs and carports and finally restore running water to NWLA, many of us are looking for a silver lining. Did the hard freeze help curb any of our local pests?
We enjoyed a nice leisurely walk through the trails at Cypress Black Bayou this weekend. We saw tons of little lizards that sound like dinosaurs when they scurry across the dried leaves. We also saw a beautiful speckled King Snake, that was exceptionally beautiful because it stayed away. And I took home a few, four to be exact, friends of my own----ticks. Steven didn't have a single tick on him. G