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A Pesticide Primer
When pesticides are needed, one should always start with the safest thing and use it only on the target insect. |
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AC Bugs
Insects love warm electrical components and air conditioners are full of them. If you want to keep insects out, experts say do not use ... |
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Beware of Birdseed!
Birdseed carries the eggs of meal moths. In hot weather these varmints hatch, eat starch, then pupate and turn into small tan moths with black ... |
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Chimney Cap
Putting a chimney cover or chimney cap on top of your flue can save you a lot of money in the long run. The covers keep out damaging moisture, ... |
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Cork Flooring for Soft Footing
Cork floors muffle sound and soften footfalls. Made from a renewable resource, they are a quieter alternative to wood or tile floors, with a ... |
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Deer Deterrant
If deer are hungry enough, they will eat almost any plant. However, some plants are less appealing than others, depending on what your local ... |
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Disappearing Bulbs
Moles don't usually eat plant matter, focusing instead on insects. However, rodents such as mice and voles use their tunnels like a subway, and ... |
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Eliminating Summertime Pests
Common pests don’t have to ruin your summer fun. Here are tips for keeping the top five pests—mosquitoes, ants, wasps and hornets, spiders and ... |
 
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Fighting Carpenter Ants and Repairing the Porch
House six of the Elmwood project. The porch rebuild continues with decking, bases for columns and the columns themselves. |
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Houseplant Blights
When houseplants get sick and it's not insects, we may say they have blights. |
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Houseplant Bug Problems
Bugs have few natural indoor predators. It's here that their populations explode and cause real harm to our houseplants. |
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How Gardens Grow
One of the joys of summer is making time to read technical journals and publications that pile up on the floor that have been saved for these less ... |
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Indoor Air Pollution - Pesticides
According to a recent survey, 75 percent of U.S. households used at least one pesticide product indoors during the past year. Products used most ... |
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Insect Check
Want to check for surface feeding insects? Cut out both ends of a coffee can, screw it into the suspected area of infestation, fill it with water ... |
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Japanese Beetle Grubs
Lawn insects are a problem, none more so than Japanese Beetles. |
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Low-Dose Termite Protection
Carm DiBella from PestAgon joins Bob to explain the enviornmentally friendly Sentricon termite protection system installed at the Punta Gorda ... |
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Perform Guard EPS Termite Control
Insulation helps keep people comfortable. Unfortunately, insulations are susceptible to termite infestation. Termites love to live, work and eat ... |
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Pest Management
Early detection and treatment of pests means a healthier growing environment. |
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Prefabricated Chimney Rain Caps
Prefabricated chimneys for heating systems, and for fireplaces, are equipped with rain caps to keep rain water from entering the chimney flue. ... |
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Prevent Damage from Carpenter Ants
Carpenter ants damage wood by hollowing it out for nesting and, unlike termites, wood damaged by carpenter ants does not contain mud-like debris. |
