What a mosquito-borne illness advisory actually means in Florida

Blog Post Share Follow Us On Social Media Map-marked-alt Yelp Facebook Youtube Instagram X-twitter Your county health department announces a mosquito-borne illness advisory. It gets twenty seconds on the local news, the word advisory sounds official and slightly alarming, and nobody explains what it actually means. So here is the plain version, taken from the […]

Before you bring the holiday boxes down from the attic

Blog Post Share Follow Us On Social Media Map-marked-alt Yelp Facebook Youtube Instagram X-twitter Sometime in the next few weeks you will climb into the attic, pull down a stack of boxes, and carry them into the living room. Those boxes have been sitting in the dark, in Florida heat, untouched since January. A lot […]

Can roaches make asthma or allergies worse?

Blog Post Share Follow Us On Social Media Map-marked-alt Yelp Facebook Youtube Instagram X-twitter Most people think of cockroaches as a cleanliness problem, something unpleasant to find in the kitchen and easy to put out of mind once the lights are off. There is a quieter reason to take them seriously, and it matters most […]