Brown Widow makes its home on Gulf Coast
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As if the West Nile-toting mosquito isn't enough to worry Mississippians, add the poisonous Latrodectus geometricus to the state's list of creepy-crawly creatures.
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By Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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If it seems quiet in your back yard these days, it&#39;s probably because so many species of birds have flown the coop, bound south on their migratory journeys.
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By Beth Velliquette, The Herald-Sun, Durham, N.C.  Jun.
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Swarms of Asian lady bugs, introduced in this country to control pests, have themselves become a nuisance on golf courses and in homes and gardens around Texas.
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MINNEAPOLIS - The itsy bitsy spider came crawling out of Dottie Brown's kitchen sink, but she was just happy it didn't happen while she was eating the grapes that carried the black widow into her home. "If that thing had come crawling out then," Brown said.
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Coming ashore south of Fort Pierce on Saturday. Across the peninsula and exiting into the Gulf of Mexico north of New Port Richey on Sunday.
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By Joyce Owen, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Feb.
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By Leigh Coleman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 15--GULFPORT -- More than 100 service members of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 left Gulfport on Wednesday as the final phase of one of the largest Seabee deployment operations.
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By Sallie James, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Dec. 8--CORAL SPRINGS -- With every scoop made by a rumbling trackhoe, injured turtles and waterbirds came closer this week to having a new home at the Sawgrass Nature Center.
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Crawfish in southern Louisiana appear to have recovered their numbers from the pounding the Gulf Coast took from Hurricane Rita.  The season is still early, the Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate reported.
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By Matt Dees, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 24--DURHAM -- The bright yellow fugitives made a swim for it, but Tex Law was ready for 'em.
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By Jacqueline L. Urgo, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Jun. 17--ABSECON, N.J. -- Kim Bannister walks out her front door and sighs.   Her concrete driveway is covered with large pools of stinking bird excrement and rotting crab shells.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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By Christine Rappleye, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Jun. 27--GROVES -- Melody Miller's days of living in a FEMA trailer in front of her Hurricane Rita-damaged home are numbered.
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By Gabriel Tynes, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Sep.
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By Jeff Ayres, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Jun. 1--NAVARRE BEACH -- The Gulf of Mexico is just a brisk walk from Frances Roesch's home. Santa Rosa Sound is behind it.   For 33 years, the water has provided a sparkling, wondrous view for the former St.