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Make a Bee-Friendly Watering Hole for Your Garden
While we’ve all been focused on growing a bee-friendly habitat in our gardens by planting pollinator friendly varieties, there’s something else that’s vital to the health of bees that often goes unmentioned: Bees need water. In their natural habitats, bees get water from ponds, pools, and puddles that naturally occur in the environment, but the…
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Mosquito Repelling Plants Are a Lie
1You really can’t go anywhere on the internet without running into lists of the 17 or 25 best mosquito repelling plants, or mosquito repelling plants that are good in the shade, or that are nontoxic to dogs, or whatever. It seems like people only want to talk about mosquito repelling plants, and never stop to…
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The 5 Worst Bugs to Find in Your House (and 5 That Aren’t So Bad)
Insects, spiders, and other small, many-legged creatures — which I will refer to from here on as “bugs,” and will accept no corrections on that point — belong outdoors. Mostly. Some bugs are a disaster to find inside, because that means you likely have an infestation. Some sting, bite, or cause damage. But others are…
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Get Paid $2,660 to Live in a Pest-Infested House
It you’re looking for a creative way to make extra money, how does $US2,000 (A$2,660) for a month of doing almost nothing sound? Before you say “hell, yes,” here’s the catch: You have to already live in a house with an active pest infestation and let the infestation continue untreated for part of the month-long…