A friend recently asked how to get rid of ants in her garden and around her house without using chemicals. Probably the best way I can think of is with plants from the mint family (scientifically, the Lamiaceae family). The mint family actually varies quite a lot (around 900 species), and includes herbaceous perennials and [...]
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Centipede vs. Millipede
The way to distinguish between a centipede and a millipede is by their numbers of legs: centipedes only have one pair of legs per body segment (pictured left), millipedes have two pairs of legs per body segment (pictured bottom right). More easily addressed, millipedes have more legs then centipedes do. And why do we , [...]
What is Drift and How to Prevent It
Drift is the phenomenon where an applied substance (a fertilizer, pesticide, or herbicide, etc.) unintentionally happens to contact a non-target organism. For example: if you fertilize your lawn and some of the fertilizer from your spreader shoots out over your lawn and lands in your planter beds then that is drift. The lawn was the [...]
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