If you are interested in attracting bats to your garden, here are a few tips for you to follow. We will cover the different parts of the country and perhaps some of the best ways and places to mount bat houses as well as other criteria needed for your own insect controllers.

Some general ideas that work in most places are keep your patio lights and any outdoor lights you have on all night. These lights attract insects and that provides a food source for your bats. Also a birdbath with fresh wat… Continue

Are you wondering how to attract hummingbirds naturally? Maybe you have thought about what type of plants or shrubs you like to occupy that part of your yard that will help prime your hummingbird feeder. Here are some plant and shrub ideas that you may want to consider when attracting… Continue

Around the house you aren't going to run into fuel spills in the millions of gallons like the Valdez oil spill. But a new retail product that was used to clean up the Valdez spill is available by the quart to homeowners, and can give new life to oil-stained driveways, concrete, garages, and even soil.

That's big news. An oil stain on the driveway can not only lower your property's value, but it can also be tracked into your home and damage your floors and carpets. And if you keep tools in your… Continue

A Zoologist will refer to a bat as a "chiroptera" which literally means "hand-wing." If you view their skeleton you will notice that the wing has the skeletal structure of a hand, the difference being , the fingers are elongated. The bat will use these fingers to hold their food. Now a bat is split into two groups called either Megachiroptera or Microchiroptera, which just means large bat or small bat. The largest bats will have a wingspan around six (6) feet. These are fruit bats. The smallest… Continue

These little guys provide all kinds of vital pollination activity to thousands of different plant species which is vital to the proliferation of plant life. People from the Midwest enjoy these critters, some 300 different species weighing less than 20 grams, from mid-spring to late fall.

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