About Hannah Whitlock
Hannah Whitlock writes The Faunalist’s coverage of insects, spiders and household pests. That runs from butterfly and ladybug identification to the less charming end of the beat: what is biting at night, what left these droppings behind the baseboard, and which of the usual home remedies actually work. Her main sources are university extension entomology departments, which publish the most reliable regional pest material in the United States, plus the Entomological Society of America, state agriculture departments and the EPA for anything involving treatment. Control advice is written to lead with prevention and identification, because most pest problems get solved by naming the species correctly. Hannah Whitlock is a pen name used by a member of the Faunalist editorial team. She is not a licensed pest control operator, and articles that touch on pesticides point readers to the label and to local extension services rather than improvising.
What Hannah covers
- Insect identification
- Spiders
- Butterflies and moths
- Beetles
- Garden invertebrates
- Household pest identification
- Integrated pest management
Browse every article by Hannah Whitlock.
How these guides are researched
Insect, spider and pest guides lean on university extension entomology departments, which run the regional trials most of this advice ultimately rests on, plus the Entomological Society of America for taxonomy and state agriculture departments for local pressure and quarantine rules. Anything touching pesticides is checked against EPA material and points readers back to the product label and to local extension services rather than improvising a mixture.
Identification, range and safety claims are checked against at least two independent sources before publishing, and where the sources disagree the article says so instead of picking the tidier answer. The full process, including which institutions we treat as authoritative for each subject area, is on our editorial standards page.
A note on the byline
Hannah Whitlock is a pen name used by a member of The Faunalist editorial team, and the portrait above is an illustration rather than a photograph. The person behind the name writes this subject area and nothing else. We do not claim degrees, licences or field credentials that our writers do not hold, and anything that needs a professional is sent to one inside the article. Our reasoning for working this way is set out on the editorial standards page.
Corrections and contact
Found something wrong in one of these guides, or have a question about a source? Write to [email protected] with the article name and what you found. Corrections are checked against our sources and made in the article itself.