Archive for September, 2008
Why Create a Backyard Habitat?
There are a lot of great reasons to create a backyard habitat. This list offers some of the more obvious ones: A love of wildlife. If you are a nature lover, why not create some in your backyard? When we say create, we really mean cooperate. When working on such a project, we are merely [...]
September 3, 2008
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Tags: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Mosquito Control, Nature, Pest prevention · Posted in: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Biodiversity, Environmental services, Malaria, Mosquito Control, Mosquitoes, Native habitat, Native plants, Public Health, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat
Backyard Habitat Project | Where do I start? Be DIRECT
Well, we are talking about backyard habitats, so, it would seem reasonable to start there! It really doesn’t have to be a backyard, it can be a front yard, or on the side of your home, or an unused lot. In other words, it can be almost any where. The place to begin, is in [...]
September 3, 2008
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Tags: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, DIRECT approach · Posted in: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Biodiversity, DIRECT aproach, Habitat Management, Habitat requirements, Native habitat, Native plants, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat
Our DIRECT Approach to Creating a Backyard Habitat
There are many ways you can approach your backyard habitat project, some of them can be a little confusing. We have developed the following approach. We even created an acronym to make it easy to remember. D-I-R-E-C-T: Decide>Identify>Remove>Encourage>Construct>Transplant Decide what you want to accomplish. Is this to be a bird sanctuary, a small animal habitat, [...]
September 3, 2008
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Tags: Add new tag, Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Bird sanctuary, Invasive plants, Native plants, Non native plants, Water feature · Posted in: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Cover, DIRECT aproach, Exotic plants, Food, Habitat, Habitat requirements, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native habitat, Native plants, Non native plants, Water, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat
Plant and Insect Relationships
Vegetation Control Insect Control: Plant and Insect Relationships Nature and natural law. There are a few things that should be self evident. Gravity, for instance, works every minute of every day, and needs no proof aside from the fact that when you drop an object that is heavier than air, it hits the ground. In [...]
September 2, 2008
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Tags: Insect plant relationship, Insect prevention, Mosquitoes · Posted in: Bugs and weeds, Green pest control, Mosquito Control, Mosquitoes, Public Health, Real Estate, West Nile Virus
Aquatic Biodiversity: Protecting Lakes
Aquatic Biodiversity: Protecting Lakes With water shortages predicted for parts of the United States, planners are scrambling to figure out just exactly what our water needs will be for the future, and just exactly how to deal with them. Preserving what we have. One thing is for certain, we need to preserve the viability of [...]
September 2, 2008
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Tags: Biodiversity Services, Exotic aquatic plants, Invasive species · Posted in: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Non native plants
“What harm can a little plant possibly do?”
Invasive Plants and Biodiversity: “What harm can a little plant possibly do?” I get this question from a lot of people: “What harm can a little plant possibly do?” The simple answer: The answer to that question is” Billions of dollars in damage and control efforts, and the most significant loss of biodiversity in history! [...]
September 2, 2008
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Tags: Exotic species, Invasive species · Posted in: Biodiversity, Exotic aquatic plants, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Non native plants
Exotic Plants Biodiversity: A Cause and Effect Tale
Exotic Plants, Biodiversity: A Cause and Effect Tale The following tale is true in most of it’s content, the names have been changed to protect the innocent! A plant native to Asia sprouts. It is pulled from it’s native waters and shipped to an aquarium wholesaler in South Florida. It is bought by a family [...]
September 2, 2008
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Tags: Biodiversity, Cause and effect, Chos theory, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants · Posted in: Biodiversity, Exotic aquatic plants, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native plants, Non native plants, Real Estate, Water
Pest Prevention Green Pest Control
Burns Environmental: Pest Prevention, Green Pest Control. We are primarily involved in vegetation management, but we also offer other environmental services. Pest Prevention Information Our Bugs And Weeds information website has tons of information on the greenest form of pest control, prevention! “Green” Pest Services Information on pest related topics is not all we offer. [...]
September 2, 2008
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Tags: Add new tag, Bugs and weeds, Environmental services, Green pest control, Least toxic, Pest prevention · Posted in: Bugs and weeds, Environmental services, Green pest control, Pest prevention
Invasive Exotic Plant “Sleeper Cells”
Invasive Exotic Plant “Sleeper Cells”. What was once, a group of “non invasive” exotic landscape plants, have now become destroyers. It happened while we were sleeping. They seemed innocent enough, but something, or some things, have changed, and now we have some serious thinking to do, about an increasingly serious problem. A growing invasive species [...]
September 2, 2008
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Tags: Chinaberry, Exotic plants, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Japanese Silk Tree, Privet, Wisteria · Posted in: Biodiversity, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native habitat, Native plants, Non native plants, Shrubs, Trees, Vines, Water