INPUT ARTICLE: Article: This is because light attracts flying termites, especially during the night. Also look for swarming near windows and doors. If you see a large congregation of termites in the air, then the termites are exhibiting swarming behavior. Swarming can occur during the day or night. Swarming generally occurs in the spring months, i.e., March, April, May, and June. If you happen to see a termite fly out from under your porch, patio, or foundation, then this is a sure sign of an infestation. Termites will shed their wings when they enter the next stage of their development. This usually occurs after the swarming period. In an infested home, you can often find piles of wings that have been shed by flying termites. Shed wings look similar to tiny fish scales. Also called frass, termite droppings are ridged and small. They look like small, wood colored pellets. Oftentimes, you can find piles of feces near the openings of tunnels, as well as where they have eaten or nested. Only certain species of termites will leave feces behind. Sweep up the feces and dispose of it. Check the spot daily to see if more fecal pellets appear. If they do, then this is a sure sign that you have an infestation.

SUMMARY: Look for swarming near lights. Observe piles of wings. Look for piles of feces.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: As soon as you see fronds forming on your ferns, use tweezers to carefully pluck a fern out that you want to transplant. Be careful not to destroy the root system. Put it into a 2- or 3-inch (5 or 7.5 cm) plant pot with potting soil. Use a soil similar to the makeup of African Violet potting soil, which contains extra humus. You can transplant three or four baby ferns together into the same small pot if you want to. Just be sure to allow about an inch (2.5 cm) of space around each one for its roots to grow. Ferns that share a pot will likely need to be re-potted sooner than ferns that have their own pot. As with the spores, the fern does best in indirect sunlight. Try to pick a room in your home where the temperature remains fairly constant and the fern will receive at least eight hours of indirect sunlight. Keeping the soil too wet will cause your fern to rot, so make sure to wait until the soil is dry before you water it. This may be once a week in moderate temperatures, or more often in hot temperatures. Pour enough water over the base of the fern to saturate the roots and the soil, but don't leave any standing water. Avoid misting your fern. Staghorn ferns are susceptible to a fungus called black spot, and the moisture left on the fronds from misting is often the culprit. Find a commercial fern fertilizer at a garden center or nursery and mix it with water to cut down on the strength. Pour a spray bottle half full of fertilizer and fill the other half with water. Then follow the product instructions for application.

SUMMARY: Transplant ferns once you see fronds. Place your fern in indirect sunlight. Water the fern when the soil is dry to the touch. Apply water only to the soil to avoid black spot. Fertilize once a month with half-strength fertilizer.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Channel your inner Abe Lincoln by trimming off the mustache completely and leaving the rest. This is easiest with a beard trimmer. Follow all the above steps for trimming and then remove the mustache with the trimmer. Maintain by shaving your upper lip regularly with a razor. If you can't, at least keep it significantly shorter with the trimmer. Trim your sideburns, leaving only a tough-looking patch around your mouth. Imagine a line that runs from the sides of your nose down the corner of your lips and shave everything between that line and your ear, leaving the hair around the chin and the mustache. Experiment with leaving different lengths of sideburn, or, for a style called the fu-manchu, removing the hair under the bottom lip and the chin. This is essentially the opposite of the goatee, leave the sideburns long and remove the mustache, chin, and neck beard. Also try leaving the mustache for a variation on the chinstrap. Take off the trim guard or very carefully use scissors to cut (almost) everything off. You want to create an all-over, very short beard. This is a rugged, masculine look. This effect is more noticeable if you have dark hair (especially if you have pale skin). A soul patch is a tiny, short beard under your lower lip. This look is favored by jazz musicians and best accompanied by a cool pair of shades. Remain clean-shaven, leaving only a small downward-facing triangle of hair that extends from your lower lip to a spot above your chin. Try different lengths with this look. A short soul patch can be barely-noticeable, while a longer one can create an air of mystery. This moustache is famously associated with director John Waters. Shave your beard down to just a mustache. Trim your mustache using a pair of clippers and a very short guard. Then, with a safety razor, shave your mustache except for the portion just above your upper lip. You'll be chasing girls down the street in no time! Try out different lengths and styles. It'll always grow back. If you plan on shaving your beard off completely, take the opportunity to try a different style for an hour at a time. Eat lunch with a goatee and dinner with a mustache. You might discover that you like one of your new styles.

SUMMARY: Leave the chinstrap. Rock the goatee. Try out the muttonchop. Trim it extra short for the five-o'clock shadow. Cultivate a soul patch. Creep your friends out with a pencil 'stache. Experiment!

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Put the berries in a strainer and hold it over the sink under the faucet. Turn on the cold water and rinse the strawberries off thoroughly to remove any dirt or grime. If your faucet has a spray nozzle, use this to give the berries a shower and cover more surface area at once. Hold a strawberry in 1 hand and pinch the green top leaves firmly between 2 fingers on your other hand. Gently twist and pull to remove the stem. The stems are edible, but they don't have a nice taste or texture, so removing them leaves you with just the tasty berry. Don't slice off the tops because it just wastes some of the tasty red fruit near the top. Make sure to wait until after you wash the strawberries and are ready to slice them to remove the tops.

SUMMARY:
Rinse the strawberries under cool water. Pick the green top stems off every strawberry.