I have some pest stories for you all. In the early 1980s there was a huge tent caterpillar/gypsy moth problem in New Jersey (where I lived growing up). One summer there was a huge "tent" in a small ornamental tree, hanging right over the best of my mother's gardens. One day she decided to get rid of it, so she sprayed it with kerosene and set fire to it. Unfortunately, this just opened up a hole in the "tent" and the caterpillars were soon falling like rain (black, clumpy, squirming rain) onto her, and the poor garden she was trying to protect! Also, last summer we had wasps (yellowjackets) actually chew a hole in the wood frame of a sofa I had out on the porch. (I didn't know they could do that!!) We sprayed wasp killer in the hole but it never got rid of all of them. We ended up having to pay the garbage men $25 to haul it to the dump! And we apparently have a bat family who likes to give birth in the eaves of our attic every year. It's happened two years in a row. There must be a hole from the eaves to inside the attic, though I've never been able to find it. Unfortunately the little baby bats like to try to explore the attic, where they sometimes end up flying drunkenly around the house until we can trap them with a towel and let them go outside, or (sadly) we find them dead of thirst or starvation at the bottom of the attic stairs. I love these stories! - debbie