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“Our garden has a number of areas with standing water, prime mosquito breeding ground. In six years of gardening there, I have never been bitten by a mosquito. I don’t know of any other place in Houston, with the possible exception of being in the back of a convertible going 60 miles per hour down I-10, where I can make the same claim.” [Urban Harvest, in the Houston Chronicle]
Read more about: Critters, Gardening, Green Design, Mosquitoes
Could you imagine a more perfect story . . . to catapult this wild, wild, Western city to international attention? It’s already gone viral. Marauding insects with a wacky name invade untold Houston suburbs! They’re attracted to . . . electricity! They’ll disable your home security system! And they eat Fire Ants!
Photo of Crazy Rasberry Ants: A&M Center for Urban & Structural Entomology
Read more about: Critters, Hazards
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February 6, 2008 – 11:49 am
Bet the sellers are just itching to get rid of this place.
Here’s part of a photo from the listing of a 3-bedroom, 2-bath home in Braewood Glen. It’s been on the market for two weeks, and the asking price was lowered to $109,900 just a few days in.
After the jump: They already got rid of the carpet — what more do you want?
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Read more about: 77083, Alief, Braewood Glen, Buying and Selling, Critters, Fleas, Hazards, Homes for Sale, Interiors
