Coffee and Provocation

Tick Lived for 27 Years -- Eight Without Food

A species of tick known as Argas brumpti survived for 27 years in the lab, eight years without any food at all, and reproduced without the presence of a male.

How To Get Rats Out of Your Alley Trash 

It's simple: Keep the lids on tight, and spray the trashcans and the area around them with a dilute spray of bleach.

Badgers and Hedgehogs

In the UK, hedgehogs are in steep decline in the countryside, but their numbers are increasing in urban and suburban backyards. What's going on? It's a mystery to the hedgehog grant-seekers, but it's very clearly due to the burgeoning population of badgers in the countryside, which are absent from towns and cities.

  

No Thanks, We Are Not Europeans

The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (Montana BHA) represents roughly 3,000 dues-paying sportsmen and women in Montana who value quality recreational opportunities and ethical conduct in the outdoors. The Chapter "values the opportunity to pursue wild upland birds in quality habitat and strives to pass our fair-chase opportunities to the next generation of responsible hunters." As such the Chapter has written to Deb O’Neill, Special Projects Director for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks to oppose stocking pen-raised birds to dump into the wild where these chickens will then freeze, starve, or get killed in short order by predators for whom they are ill-equipped. "Biologically, we object to stocking pen-raised birds... Socially... we prefer these to be fair-chase opportunities... Fiscally, we are completely opposed to this wasteful use of fish and game dollars."

Russia Declares Victory Before Stacking Their Dead

Russia's state-run news agency RIA-Novosti published an article proclaiming Russian victory over Ukraine even before the Russians had entered a single city or begun to bury their thousands of dead.

Hunting Invasive Inguanas?

Mike Kimmel makes a living killing invasive iguanas and guiding clients on lizard shoots. His Drahthaar, Otto, is a trained iguana retriever.