Pest Patrol

Natural Ways to Eliminate Ants in Your Garden

While cleaning out the front garden this week, I ran into a biting obstacle… ants. It was an interesting yoga move trying to balance above the busy nest reaching the weeds while avoiding the ants. And while I prefer to leave ants where they are, these have to go. Now I need to decide on ...

Listening to the hum of the carpenter bees

We were standing near my sister’s garage the other evening. There were at least 8 carpenter bees (although I didn’t know at first that’s what they were). They were seemingly attempting to burrow into the eaves of her garage where some of the paint wore off over the years. Earlier that day while sitting on ...