Every page on this site says when it was checked against its sources. Here is what that check involves.
Most pest advice online is written by whoever is selling the cure, which shapes what it recommends and what it leaves out. This site carries advertising, but an advertiser has no say in what a page says — so the answer to "what should I do about this" can be "nothing yet", or "this is a beneficial insect, leave it alone", or "the cheapest fix here is cultural, not biological".
What we do carry is a standard for how the numbers get onto a page. Thresholds, release rates and degree-day figures are the parts people act on, and they are also the parts most often copied between websites without a source. Each one here traces to published extension-service guidance, peer-reviewed work, or a named supplier's own product literature — and the page says which.
The site in numbers
- Pests
- 34 profiles
- Beneficials
- 0 profiles
- Crop hubs
- 0 settings
- Before publishing
- Every claim checked against its source
- Funding
- Advertising
- Paid content
- Labelled, and outside the advice
How a page gets published
Drafted from primary sources
Extension guidance, peer-reviewed work, product labels and supplier literature — never other pest websites. Every claim is recorded against its source.
Checked claim by claim
A separate verification pass, run with AI assistance and independent of the draft, re-opens every cited source. A figure that does not match is corrected; one that cannot be traced is cut.
Only then published
Drafts are never on the site. A page goes live once it passes, and says on the page when it was checked.
Reviewed and corrected
The editor reviews published pages, and any reader can report an error. Changed figures are logged with the date and the reason.
What we will not do
Stated plainly, because these are the commitments that make the rest of the site worth reading.
- No paid influence on what a page recommendsWhich beneficial a pest page recommends, how a supplier list is ordered and what a compatibility rating says are editorial decisions. No advertiser, supplier or manufacturer can change any of them.
- No unlabelled commercial contentAdvertising sits outside the advice and looks like advertising. Anything sponsored or commissioned says so where it appears, not in a policy page nobody reads.
- No recommending a product we cannot source a rating forWhere there is no published trial the matrix says so, rather than guessing.
- No treating every insect as a problemPages say plainly when the answer is to do nothing, or that what you are looking at is a predator.
- No silent editsChanged figures are logged on the corrections page with the date and the reason.
Who checks this
Each page is drafted from its sources, then checked by a separate verification pass that re-reads those sources claim by claim; AI tools assist both steps. The editor reviews published pages and makes the calls a source cannot, and signs off every correction.
When a page has been reviewed by a named specialist, their name will appear on it.
Corrections are credited unless you ask us not to be. Growers spot errors faster than reviewers do — tell us what is wrong.
Advertising, kept out of the advice
The site is free to read and paid for by advertising, and some of what it carries may in time be sponsored or commissioned. None of that touches the advice: an advertiser cannot buy a recommendation, a place in a supplier list or a compatibility rating, and anything paid for is labelled where it appears. Any change to this is stated here before it appears anywhere else on the site.