Another page in our continuing series on pest prevention from bugsandweeds.com. The way you perform lawn care will help to determine your success or failure in preventing pests. Mowing is the most important activity, but the other items mentioned on this page are very important as well.
Most people have only a vague idea of what vegetation management is, but without this service our society would be crippled, and our forests and lakes over run with biodiversity destroying exotic weeds and vines.
Learn more about this unusual field by reading this.
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Service page for Bugs And Weeds. Everyone thought it was an information site only, but it turns out that there is actually a green pest control and service as well. The call for natural, botanical pesticides in place of neurotoxins has reached a sustainable level!
Mowing your lawn frequently can be one of the best ways to control bugs and weeds, both the ones in your lawn, and the ones that get into your home. This page tells all about how that works, and how you can improve both your lawn, and your home pest situation.
This really makes sense when you think about it. The bugs that come into your home come from somewher. Reducing the population before that reach your walls, reduces the numbers trying to get inside.
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A list of facts about how controlling brush and debris can help you to get and stay pest free in your home, your yard and your landscape. Practical, real world information! This should be especially helpful to green minded homeowners with bug and weed problems!
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Everyone should already be aware that biodiversity and all of it’s many facets are a big topic these days. Besides traveling to the Amazon and chaining yourself to a tree in the rain forest, what can you do to help? This page provides some tips on how to get involved at home!
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The Texas Lake Solutions website seems to be growing every day. There are a lot of new articles, in this article directory. If you visit the site, you will see that there is a tutorial on preparing a pond for stocking with fish, a list of major lakes in Texas by region, and of course the articles which this page lists. If you love lakes, drop in!
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True Green Solutions. For the greenest green you have ever seen! True Green Solutions is a website that encourages dialog in the environmental arena. Now they have added services that are truly green. Based on prevention, with botanical pest control agents for the ones that get by, it should be interesting to see how it goes.
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This is our second installment of our pest prevention series:
Brush control as pest prevention:
Many Entomologists estimate that 90 percent of the pests which plague us inside our homes, come from outside. I think it is actually 100 percent, since the pests existed before any human building project occurred. The fact is, that the pests that bug you, in your home, come from outside your home.
If you have brush and weeds near your home, you have a bug and rodent farm near your home.
For the rest of the story on the topic of brush control, see Brush Control as Pest Prevention.
I have said it thousands of times. Prevention is the greenest, and best form of pest control! There are simple methods for preventing pests outlined on the website: Bugs and Weeds
I thought I would run through the site, offering it as a series on this blog, to let you know how this great information can help you in your situation. We will start with a few paragraphs from the lead pages of the prevention pages, following them in sequence as we go, and linking to each days page so you can read the whole page by clicking on the link if you like.
Well, here we go!
Preventing Pests Begins Outdoors
Preventing pests is better than controlling pests, for the same reason that preventing house fires is better than controlling house fires!
There is a lot of information on preventing pests in the home, most of it deals with the obvious: “Clean your house, seal your food, check for holes, close your trash can, stop leaving the doors open when you run out to the mailbox you moron!”…
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