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Backyard Wildlife & Pest Tips
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items Helpful tips to encourage & protect wildlife. Natural advice to reduce unwanted pests like mosquitoes and flies.
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Attracting native wildlife to your yard can provide you with wonderful experiences observing natural behavior and beneficial resources for many animals in your area at the same time. You can help make the world a better place and love your yard too.
How to Attract Native Wildlife to Your Yard | Eartheasy Guides & Articles
The best interest of the wildlife should always be your priority if you are interested in making your yard a spot for native species. Whether you're in your garden or on a trip, respecting the natural world will give you and the wildlife the best exp...
How To Respect Wildlife - Redwood National and State Parks (U.S. National Park Service)
Attracting possums to your property, if it's legal in your area, can provide you views of the adorable transients & pest control against ticks and other insects. It's not always legal to attract or feed wildlife in your yard, so make sure you are...
HOW TO ATTRACT OPOSSUMS TO YOUR PROPERTY
Squirrels often get a lot of hate but they are wonderful animals to have in your garden. No animal deserves hate for it's natural behavior. Squirrels provide entertaining antics and are considered quite important to their ecosystems in multiple ways,...
Why should you love squirrels? Here are six reasons
Besides bees, butterflies are excellent pollinators as well as beautiful garden visitors. Attracting them to your garden will benefit your environment greatly. Make sure you try to plant nectar-rich, native plants and avoid invasive species.
Flowers and Plants that Attract Butterflies
A clover lawn is very beneficial to pollinators, see if it's right for your yard
Should you plant a clover lawn? The pros and cons.
Use the National Wildlife Federation's native plant finder to discover what's best for your area
Home - Native Plants Finder
Unpredictable temperatures of changing seasons between winter and spring can cause Bees to awaken early. Sometimes there just isn't enough food yet in late winter or early spring. Planting some of these suggestions can ensure the pollinators survive ...
Bee-friendly winter plants
Keeping all your garden visitors hydrated will make it a favorite spot to hang out. While there is a lot of info on birdbaths, don't forget the bees.
Save Your Mason Jars To DIY A Waterer For Exhausted Pollinators This Summer - House Digest
If you are interested in a DIY project or you aren't ready for pro beekeeping this article gives you great instructions on how to create and maintain a mason bee hotel
Guide to building and managing a mason bee hotel » Colin Purrington's blog
There is more you can do besides cleaning your birdbath to ensure it remains a healthy water source for your backyard birds, this article has great advice!
7 Genius Tricks That Will Keep Your Bird Bath Clean - House Digest
With the current spread of bird viruses it's important to keep your birdbaths safe. Diluted vinegar and a scrub brush sanitize best without leaving harmful residue or chemicals
How to Clean a Bird Bath Properly
I appreciate this thorough guide to cleaning your birdbath safely and effectively without using toxic chemicals.
Cleaning Ingredients You Should Avoid Using On Your Bird Bath - House Digest
Cleaning your birdhouse out at the end of the season and attending to safety hazards will show you to see many more baby birds growing up
Birdhouse Maintenance
Choosing the right type of housing and location for your birdhouse can help birds survive and prosper more easily.
Choose the Right Birdhouse
A free PDF download to help you understand basic housing and cover needs for birds in your area. Location, size of house, entrance hole sizes, and general info or where to find it.
Size Does Matter--Nest Boxes for Wildlifer
You can also use an overturned wheelbarrow to protect them from dogs or other predators while allowing the mother to visit easily. If you know what to do when you find a bunny nest in your yard you can prevent tragedy and keep your wildlife rehab cen...
Preventing a Bunny Nest Tragedy in Your Yard - BirdOculars
If you need to get an animal in need to a licensed wildlife rehabber it's best to know what to do from the pro's. Know how to keep them safe, if you should feed them, transport then without doing more harm, and how to prevent then from having emergen...
Did you find an animal in need — Sweetbriar Nature Center
Often people want to help when they find baby animals in nature, though it's often best to let them be unless you are sure they need assistance. If you are sure an animal or nest has been abandoned or injured, contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitato...
Found an orphaned or injured baby wild animal?
Search for a wildlife rehabilitator in your area. Being a licensed wildlife rehabilitator is a tough job, but there aren't enough of them and they are absolute blessings to this world. If you have the guts, you can find out about training here. Or ju...
National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association: Help! I've Found an Injured Animal!
Sweetbriar is a wonderful nature center on Long Island that helps rehabilitate wild animals. They have wonderful educational information with many beautiful animals on their page as well as events you can attend. Please make a donation to this wonder...
Instagram (@sweetbriarnaturecenter)
Visit this IG to learn how to make your yard a miniature national park! This is a wonderful movement to help wildlife and build up native species in your area. Plant native species and provide safeways for wildlife, register your yard and support a h...
Instagram (@homegrownnationalpark)
If you are doing your thing to encourage a healthy and safe environment for wildlife and plants in your yard you can register it as a certified wildlife habitat.
Certify Your Habitat to Help Wildlife! - Certified Wildlife Habitat
Pest Tips
Mosquitos, flies, wasps and ants, oh my!
Many people make the mistake of using glue traps and realizing the suffering they cause to animals intended to be trapped as well as unintended casualties too late. Sticky tape and glue traps are best to be avoided, if you find an animal stuck to a t...
The Dangers of Glue Traps
Scroll through to find out about methods and bug traps that are safer for your bird allies helping you fight Lanternfly destruction.
Birds Are One Line of Defense Against Dreaded Spotted Lanternflies
Build your own Lanternfly trap that has less of a chance to trap or harm the wrong creatures
How to Build a Spotted Lanternfly Circle Trap
Some of these plants may also deter other wildlife from your yard, for instance raccoons hate peppermint oil and I have placed it on cotton balls in my fence to keep them from using parts of my yard as a latrine or deter them from areas with more bir...
12 Plants to Grow Now for a Mosquito-Free Summer
In order to keep your yard a safe place for you, your pets, and wildlife it's important to avoid encouraging ticks. These simple tips are a great starting point. To strike balance, portioning off a lesser used or unused area of your property that can...
11 Ways to Repel Ticks Naturally In Yards
Spraying your yard for ticks can affect your family, pets and other beneficial insects like bees, butterflies and moths even if you use organic pesticide like neem oil. Tick tubes are a safe solution for wildlife that are relatively inexpensive. For ...
Thermacell Tick Control Tubes (12-Count) 100532724
Dragonflies are like beautiful jewels that will fly about your yard and consume massive amounts of mosquitoes.
Here's What Attracts Dragonflies and Damselflies to Eat Mosquitos
Bats are amazing free pest control and can eat up to 1,200 mosquitos per hour, or up to 6,000 - 8,000 insects per night.
Creating a Garden for Bats - Bat Conservation International
Having a few bat boxes on your property can help reduce the population of mosquitos in your area. Make sure to place them high enough and in shady areas. Temperature is a big concern, bats will move their offspring if the temperatures are to high in ...
Single Chamber Cedar Bat House, Pollinator Friendly Mosquito Control, Bat Box, Bat Nest, Made in the USA
I don't have to tell you how awful flies are, but they are also often terrible for wildlife as well, causing fly strike and other diseases. Let's get them outta here.
How To Get Rid Of Flies Outside
I don't like to kill anything, not even insects, but ants are just great at finding out how to get into your living areas and take over the space. I hate leaving dangerous traps and poison around so I was grateful to know more solutions for these per...
20 Safe Ways to Kill Ants in Your Home Without Toxic Chemicals