Posts Tagged ‘pests

November 13, 2010 | In: Garden Design

Home-Made Pesticides

if you are one of the growing number of people worldwide that thinks that we should start using fewer chemicals on our planet, then you have probably wondered about home-made pesticides. Once you have had a lung full of ant spray or cockroach spray, you...

Most gardeners and even commercial crop growers are very pleased with themselves if they take a step back from using chemical insecticides and go back to using natural, old-fashioned insecticides. And it is true, they have, but did you know that there...

Ants are cold-blooded creatures which means that they cannot keep themselves warm. If their environment is cold, they go into a very lethargic lifestyle and virtually hibernate, whereas when it is warm they run about the garden looking for food to take...

A lot of individuals are attempting to get away from using chemicals and nowhere more so than in the use of insecticides in and around the house. The problem is that modern chemical insecticides work, are readily obtainable and are pretty cheap. The...

Ants appear to be quite innocuous to a lot of people. In most temperate climates, ants do very little damage, although red ants bite people all over the planet. However, there are more serious ants in warmer countries and some of these ants can even be...

People have been using natural pesticides for many, many years. In the beginning, they used these methods to keep their residences free of insects, but perhaps were not able to use the same techniques on their crops. For example, a large number of...

September 6, 2010 | In: Garden Design

Some Particulars About Ants

Everybody has lived with ants in the house or and the garden all his or her life. Wherever people live, ants live too, except in Antartica and a few islands, but how much do you really know about them? Ants evolved from wasps about 120 million years...

Have you ever wanted to study ants? The method in which they make a nest, look after their young and feed? If you have then you could get an ant farm. However, you cannot just build your ant farm, stock it and then leave it. Having an ant farm is...

If you are thinking about buying an ant farm, there are several things that you need to learn about keeping ants before you set up or at least colonize your farm. In fact, even before you purchase your ant farm, you should look around for which...

August 16, 2010 | In: Garden Design

What Are Fire Ants?

Fire ants dwell in many of the hotter parts of the world and in the majority of countries and in most languages, from Thai to French and English, the word 'fire' is part of its name. This is because the sensation of pain after having been stung, not...