My father always kept an upside-down clay pot filled with straw in his vegetable patch: I laughed for years before understanding why he was right
For years, I laughed at my father’s quirky habit of placing upside-down clay pots filled with straw throughout his vegetable patch. What I didn’t realize was that he’d accidentally mastered integrated pest management—using earwigs as natural aphid hunters by providing them the perfect daytime shelter.