Few things can upset an otherwise beautiful and relaxing day spent in an outdoor living space more quickly than insects and pests. Whether it's mosquitoes trying to bite homeowners and their guests, flies looking to land on food, or wildlife leaving trails of excrement throughout a yard, these...
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Echinacea may reseed and produce young plants that usually wait to bloom till their second year.
Native plants have naturally evolved in a specific region over thousands of years. They are well-adapted to the local climate and soil...
The opportunity to experience local wildlife is one of the many alluring features of spending time in the great outdoors. Unfortunately, wildlife is being threatened in many parts of the world as the human population increases and spreads to regions that historically have not been home to large...
What is the biggest threat that wildlife faces in the modern era? It is the quality of water that those animals need to live.
Poor water quality poses a significant threat to wildlife. According to data out of Great Britain, waterways across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are increasingly...
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Rabbit damage on a shrub
My fruit trees and shrubs suffered severe wildlife damage this winter while I was focusing on other personal projects (a newborn baby). If your perennials are also suffering from wildlife damage, you are not...
As the world's population has increased, so, too, has the need to accommodate such growth. Areas that were wild as recently as 100 years ago may have long since been overrun by housing and urban development, leaving little space for local wildlife to call home.
According to the World Wildlife...