Spring is here and for many people, that means it's time to get their vegetable gardens growing, but that also means that it's time to fight off the pests that enjoy the buffet of a good row of growing veggies.
For Jessica Ellis and her partner, that meant finding a way to deal with an infestation of pill bugs.
And they really liked Jessica's zucchini plants.
Luckily, there is an easy trick to deal with such a problem: beer traps. Basically, you put out a small container with a bit of beer in the bottom. It attracts the bugs, who then can't climb out of the container.
They kept moving from where they had been left the night before.
Instead of finding containers full of drowned bugs in the garden bed, the empty containers were under the blueberry bush.
It didn't explain where the bug bodies went, but it made the most sense.
But the next morning the new traps were right back with the blueberries and it hadn't been windy that time.
Especially in a fully-enclosed yard. But it turned out that they did have a garden guest, and he was having a good time with the "traps."
Basically, the lizard had been feasting on the buffet of beer-soaked pill bugs before drunkenly dragging his prize over to the blueberry bush for dessert.
So the buffets are going to stop. However, they have named the lizard Graham and hopefully he'll stick around even if free drinks are no longer provided.
Either way, they got a great story out of it!
