The nettle caterpillar or blue-striped nettle grub (Parasa lepida) is a beautiful looking, but malicious pest caterpillar endemic to East and South East Asia, but the green grub with a blueish stripe on its back infested already many other Asian countries, especially Japan. While we took care of our tropical garden, we couldn´t believe our [read more]
If Your home got infested by rats and mice, what am I going to do now? Rat poison is possibly the first idea and for sure rat poison is very effective, but it also has a big disadvantage. We live in a wooden Thai house and there are endless spots where pests, like rats and [read more]
Bubonic plague, septisemic and pneumonic plague, colloquially called the black death, was one of the biggests epidemics of man kind and just during the pandemic in the 14th and 15th century nearly 100 Million people in Asia, Europe and Africa has been fallen victim to the black death. There has been 2 main vectors of [read more]
It was the rat´s own fault, while looting our bathroom at night time, the rat was falling in the loo. It was already the third rat within one week sharing this fate. It was the rat´s own fault and for us an easy go, we just had to press the flush. The damage in our [read more]
The Pest Chronicles is about our permanent fight against pests. As we live in the tropical country of Thailand, what is often a real advantage, there are disadvantages as well. As in 2011 the rainy season with its massive floodings, especially in South-East Asia, brought enormous damage to several countries, a mostly unnoticed side effect [read more]
