Deer
Facts about Deer
1. Deer eat a wide variety of plants, but their main food item is browse—the growing tips of trees and shrubs. In late winter and early spring, deer eat grass, clover, and other herbaceous plants (Table 2).
2. Deer also eat fruit, nuts, acorns, fungi, lichens, and farm and garden crops if available.
3. [...]
Geranium
Herbal insect repellents are a safe and effective alternative to chemically based repellents. Simple and inexpensive to prepare, they can be made from herbal essential oils, fresh herbs commonly found in summer gardens, or dried herbs from health food stores.
Lemon grass, eucalyptus, lavender and geranium are infused in organic soy [...]
The first step to squirrel control is to decide which kind of squirrel you have. The common gray squirrel makes noise at dusk and at dawn when they enter and exit an attic. The flying squirrel makes noise in the middle of the night, since they are nocturnal animals.
Once the kind of squirrel [...]
Chipmunks
Chipmunk is the common name for any small ground dwelling squirrel-like rodent species. They are found in eastern portions of Canada and the United States. Though chipmunks are commonly depicted with their paws up to the mouth, eating peanuts, or more famously their cheeks bulging out on either side, they eat a much [...]
Pavement Ant
As a group, ants are important natural predators of many insect pests, including flea and fly larvae, caterpillars and termites. Ants often become a nuisance when they enter our homes searching for food and can cause severe structural damage when they burrow through decaying wood to nest, a common behavior of carpenter ants. [...]
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