If you're dining alfresco and you get a few bugs, it's no biggie. Just fire up a citronella candle and you're good to go for at least a few pest-free hours. But when, in the dead heat of summer, every time you open a window or door, you invite in a host of flying critters, it's time to hit the hardware store. Not for toxic chemical sprays, oh no. For plants. Carnivorous plants.
Outside of the musical-cum-movie Little Shop of Horrors, we didn't even know that carnivorous plants existed on a domestic level. And not only are they effective at luring unsuspecting pests...