All about cottage-country bugs
Our most popular articles on fending off common cottage foes
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Want to learn more about mosquitoes, clusterflies, horseflies, and other common cottage enemies? Here’s a collection of some of our most popular buggy articles and Q&As.
What you can do to keep bites and stings to a minimum
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Female (and only female) horseflies attack because they need a meal of blood protein to hatch their eggs. When you’re feeling...
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Forget chemicals—discourage bugs from biting you with these eco-friendly solutions
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There are a few possibilities, but outhouse flies are most likely cluster flies or filth flies.
Cluster flies get into...
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Actually, mossies aren’t very attracted to light of any kind, LED or otherwise. Both light and heat are very mild attractants...
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