(ARA) – You love the great outdoors, especially gardening. But sometimes wildlife can be just a bit too wild, with rabbits munching prized plants to the ground, deer devouring petals of roses and azaleas, and cats rolling over seedlings and leaving their “calling cards” throughout your landscaping.
Unfortunately, these critters are a common, perpetual annoyance to [...]

This year my vegetable garden has been under constant attack by snails.  Usually, I am a “let bygones be bygones” but this year the snails have apparently been taking advantage of my usually generous nature.  I can’t believe the number of snails that I pull out of the garden on the daily basis and I [...]

Bold, biting, venom injecting, habitat invasive and just plain annoying, ants come in hundreds of varieties and are on the march across the United States. Fire ants are the worst. Their bite stings and massive numbers swarming over a young child playing in the backyard can cause death.
Fire ants, originally concentrated in the southern United [...]

Every 1,000 Japanese Beetles swarming in your yard this summer means there can be 50-thousand grubs deposited in your yard by fall. Many people don’t make the connection and believe the two problems are unrelated.
Actually, the best way to eliminate Japanese Beetles is by attacking the grubs which is the weakest link in the Beetle’s [...]

With spring and summer almost upon us, many families turn their attention to picnics, parks and playgrounds. The summer months are when people spend the most time outdoors, and also the time when families are most at risk to encounter fire ants, an annoying, and sometimes dangerous, summertime pest. Homeowners can prevent fire ant infestations [...]

Birds and associated diseases are hot news right now. People worry and wonder about bird flu jumping species — but in fact there are already over 60 different human diseases associated with birds and their droppings, some of which can be fatal.
Pigeons, starlings, sparrows and crows roosting on the rooftops and nesting on your property [...]

How to Keep Deer from Foraging in Your Garden

(ARA) – Manners are lovely, but they just don’t cut it when it comes to preventing pesky deer from foraging in your foliage! Imagine this: You spend hundreds of dollars on loading your landscape with beautiful blooms, and you’ve spent months installing trees, shrubs and flowers just [...]

Moles are little mammals that are known for their subterranean living as well as their insect eating qualities.  In children’s literature as well as in movies made for young children, moles are portrayed as being blind, lovable, and quite often misunderstood because of their love for the dark. The reality, of course, is a bit [...]

Nails and slugs in your garden can be a very frustrating problem. There are a number of tips and tricks that you can use to help eliminate slugs and snails from your garden. These tips and tricks will also allow you the benefit of helping the environment and are very budget friendly.
Snails and slugs can [...]

Every gardener knows that fighting an ant invasion is an uphill battle at best.  These colonies are at times invasive and stop at nothing to get to the food source they covet.  With more than hundred thousand individual ants to one colony, it is no wonder that gardeners do not look favorably on these pests.  [...]