Category: DIY & Natural Solutions

Do-it-yourself pest control advice.

How to Protect Your HVAC Systems from Pest Infestation

Various seasons bring different challenges in form of different pests. The HVAC systems are an ideal place for several types of pests. The damp and warm environment of these systems...

Mouse Sounds – Do Mice Make Noise & What Their Squeaks Mean

Has anyone ever said you’re ‘quiet as a mouse’? They were lying. You may have heard that mice squeak, but you’d probably be surprised to learn that mice are actually...

What Happened to Fresh Cab?

Fresh Cab Rodent Repellent first appeared on store shelves in 2007, after I faced a hell-raising battle with wild mice on our farm. Finding a way to prevent the damage these little...

Can Mice Climb & Where Exactly Can They Fit & Go?

Short answer? Yes, mice can climb. If that’s all you needed to know, thanks for stopping by and have a nice day! If you wanted to know more about the...

Things Mice Don’t Like – What Scares & Repels Them

A surefire way to get rid of mice is to make sure your home is not filled with their favorite things. Doing so can be tricky since mice like a...

The Time I Tried, and Failed, to Get Rid of Ants by Myself

Hi. My name is Rita, and I have a problem; an ant problem. It started out small; there were just a few near the front door. But like most problems,...

DIY to Stop Mice Infestations in Storage Units

One out of every 10 Americans rent offsite storage. When we store away our belongings, we expect them to be safe and damage free until the next time they are needed. Sometimes...

Bug Bites, Bee Stings, and Sunburns. Soothing Natural Solutions.

Don’t let itching or scratching cast a shadow over your summer — your kitchen may hold natural solutions for whatever ails you! From home remedies for soothing sunburns and itch...

Stop Scratching Itchy Bug Bites! Home Remedies That Offer Relief, Naturally

What You Need to Know about Mosquito Bites, Plus Tips & Tricks to Soothe Irritation Counting the itchy red bumps that dotted our arms and legs was something of a...

5 Simple Ways To Make Mosquitoes Stay Away from your Backyard Pool

Keep Your Child’s Backyard Pool Mosquito Free About a month ago, I came upon a story about two little kids. Two young boys were swimming in their backyard swimming pool–mixing...

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 There are many ways an ant can enter a home, but the most alarming fact about find an ant in the house is that there is never just one. Ants live, work, and travel in large numbers. Like other household pests, ants may enter your home using gaps around doors, holes in window screens, cracks in a building’s foundation, and openings around plumbing or electrical outlets. Ants can also hitchhike into your home when you bring something inside from outdoors. Things like a potted plant, fresh cut flowers, produce from the garden, boxes from the garage, or new items you’ve recently purchased all offer opportunities for uninvited insects to get inside your home. Where do ants live?
 Broadly speaking, ants can be found on every continent around the world except Antarctica (talk about irony!). Considering there are more than 12,000 different types of ants in the world, the habitat of an ant varies greatly. Although ants can survive almost anywhere, it’s where ants live in a house that causes people the most concern. There are a few types of ants that are common household pests in the United States, but two in particular can cause problems for people:  carpenter ants and fire ants. As mentioned above, most ants are harmless. However, carpenter ants can cause structural damage to trees, homes, buildings, furniture and decorative wood. Fire ants can be aggressive and will sting anyone or anything that gets in their way. While one or two stings are an itchy nuisance, multiple stings can cause a severe reaction. Like any other living creature, ants have basic needs. When thinking about where ants live, you should think about why they are there and what they are attracted to. Ants will seek places with food, water, and shelter. Many ant colonies exist outside, but the worker ants will forage for food in the surrounding areas. This may be why you see a trail of ants wandering across the kitchen counter, or near the bathroom sink – they will come into your home and take what they need, bringing it back to the nest for the rest of the colony. Ant habitat
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 Many ants will survive and thrive both indoors and out, as long as there is food for them to consume. Ants do have a role to play in any ecosystem, so trying to eradicate them may not be the best choice, especially since they are relatively harmless. Ants play an important role in decomposition of organic matter, and their underground tunneling helps aerate soil, promoting healthy growth of lawns, gardens, and farm crops. All of that aside, want to get rid of ants inside your home is perfectly understandable. Click here for more information about to how get rid of ants naturally. [the_ad id="2397"]" ["post_title"]=> string(59) "Ant Habitat – Where Do Ants Live in and Around Your Home?" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(30) "ant-habitat-where-do-ants-live" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2017-08-02 09:57:52" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2017-08-02 14:57:52" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(33) "https://www.earthkind.com/?p=1920" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" }

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 There are many ways an ant can enter a home, but the most alarming fact about find an ant in the house is that there is never just one. Ants live, work, and travel in large numbers. Like other household pests, ants may enter your home using gaps around doors, holes in window screens, cracks in a building’s foundation, and openings around plumbing or electrical outlets. Ants can also hitchhike into your home when you bring something inside from outdoors. Things like a potted plant, fresh cut flowers, produce from the garden, boxes from the garage, or new items you’ve recently purchased all offer opportunities for uninvited insects to get inside your home. Where do ants live?
 Broadly speaking, ants can be found on every continent around the world except Antarctica (talk about irony!). Considering there are more than 12,000 different types of ants in the world, the habitat of an ant varies greatly. Although ants can survive almost anywhere, it’s where ants live in a house that causes people the most concern. There are a few types of ants that are common household pests in the United States, but two in particular can cause problems for people:  carpenter ants and fire ants. As mentioned above, most ants are harmless. However, carpenter ants can cause structural damage to trees, homes, buildings, furniture and decorative wood. Fire ants can be aggressive and will sting anyone or anything that gets in their way. While one or two stings are an itchy nuisance, multiple stings can cause a severe reaction. Like any other living creature, ants have basic needs. When thinking about where ants live, you should think about why they are there and what they are attracted to. Ants will seek places with food, water, and shelter. Many ant colonies exist outside, but the worker ants will forage for food in the surrounding areas. This may be why you see a trail of ants wandering across the kitchen counter, or near the bathroom sink – they will come into your home and take what they need, bringing it back to the nest for the rest of the colony. Ant habitat
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 Many ants will survive and thrive both indoors and out, as long as there is food for them to consume. Ants do have a role to play in any ecosystem, so trying to eradicate them may not be the best choice, especially since they are relatively harmless. Ants play an important role in decomposition of organic matter, and their underground tunneling helps aerate soil, promoting healthy growth of lawns, gardens, and farm crops. All of that aside, want to get rid of ants inside your home is perfectly understandable. Click here for more information about to how get rid of ants naturally. [the_ad id="2397"]" ["post_title"]=> string(59) "Ant Habitat – Where Do Ants Live in and Around Your Home?" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(30) "ant-habitat-where-do-ants-live" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2017-08-02 09:57:52" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2017-08-02 14:57:52" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(33) "https://www.earthkind.com/?p=1920" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" }

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 There are many ways an ant can enter a home, but the most alarming fact about find an ant in the house is that there is never just one. Ants live, work, and travel in large numbers. Like other household pests, ants may enter your home using gaps around doors, holes in window screens, cracks in a building’s foundation, and openings around plumbing or electrical outlets. Ants can also hitchhike into your home when you bring something inside from outdoors. Things like a potted plant, fresh cut flowers, produce from the garden, boxes from the garage, or new items you’ve recently purchased all offer opportunities for uninvited insects to get inside your home. Where do ants live?
 Broadly speaking, ants can be found on every continent around the world except Antarctica (talk about irony!). Considering there are more than 12,000 different types of ants in the world, the habitat of an ant varies greatly. Although ants can survive almost anywhere, it’s where ants live in a house that causes people the most concern. There are a few types of ants that are common household pests in the United States, but two in particular can cause problems for people:  carpenter ants and fire ants. As mentioned above, most ants are harmless. However, carpenter ants can cause structural damage to trees, homes, buildings, furniture and decorative wood. Fire ants can be aggressive and will sting anyone or anything that gets in their way. While one or two stings are an itchy nuisance, multiple stings can cause a severe reaction. Like any other living creature, ants have basic needs. When thinking about where ants live, you should think about why they are there and what they are attracted to. Ants will seek places with food, water, and shelter. Many ant colonies exist outside, but the worker ants will forage for food in the surrounding areas. This may be why you see a trail of ants wandering across the kitchen counter, or near the bathroom sink – they will come into your home and take what they need, bringing it back to the nest for the rest of the colony. Ant habitat
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 There are many ways an ant can enter a home, but the most alarming fact about find an ant in the house is that there is never just one. Ants live, work, and travel in large numbers. Like other household pests, ants may enter your home using gaps around doors, holes in window screens, cracks in a building’s foundation, and openings around plumbing or electrical outlets. Ants can also hitchhike into your home when you bring something inside from outdoors. Things like a potted plant, fresh cut flowers, produce from the garden, boxes from the garage, or new items you’ve recently purchased all offer opportunities for uninvited insects to get inside your home. Where do ants live?
 Broadly speaking, ants can be found on every continent around the world except Antarctica (talk about irony!). Considering there are more than 12,000 different types of ants in the world, the habitat of an ant varies greatly. Although ants can survive almost anywhere, it’s where ants live in a house that causes people the most concern. There are a few types of ants that are common household pests in the United States, but two in particular can cause problems for people:  carpenter ants and fire ants. As mentioned above, most ants are harmless. However, carpenter ants can cause structural damage to trees, homes, buildings, furniture and decorative wood. Fire ants can be aggressive and will sting anyone or anything that gets in their way. While one or two stings are an itchy nuisance, multiple stings can cause a severe reaction. Like any other living creature, ants have basic needs. When thinking about where ants live, you should think about why they are there and what they are attracted to. Ants will seek places with food, water, and shelter. Many ant colonies exist outside, but the worker ants will forage for food in the surrounding areas. This may be why you see a trail of ants wandering across the kitchen counter, or near the bathroom sink – they will come into your home and take what they need, bringing it back to the nest for the rest of the colony. Ant habitat
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 Many ants will survive and thrive both indoors and out, as long as there is food for them to consume. Ants do have a role to play in any ecosystem, so trying to eradicate them may not be the best choice, especially since they are relatively harmless. Ants play an important role in decomposition of organic matter, and their underground tunneling helps aerate soil, promoting healthy growth of lawns, gardens, and farm crops. All of that aside, want to get rid of ants inside your home is perfectly understandable. Click here for more information about to how get rid of ants naturally. [the_ad id="2397"]" ["post_title"]=> string(59) "Ant Habitat – Where Do Ants Live in and Around Your Home?" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(30) "ant-habitat-where-do-ants-live" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2017-08-02 09:57:52" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2017-08-02 14:57:52" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(33) "https://www.earthkind.com/?p=1920" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" }

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 There are many ways an ant can enter a home, but the most alarming fact about find an ant in the house is that there is never just one. Ants live, work, and travel in large numbers. Like other household pests, ants may enter your home using gaps around doors, holes in window screens, cracks in a building’s foundation, and openings around plumbing or electrical outlets. Ants can also hitchhike into your home when you bring something inside from outdoors. Things like a potted plant, fresh cut flowers, produce from the garden, boxes from the garage, or new items you’ve recently purchased all offer opportunities for uninvited insects to get inside your home. Where do ants live?
 Broadly speaking, ants can be found on every continent around the world except Antarctica (talk about irony!). Considering there are more than 12,000 different types of ants in the world, the habitat of an ant varies greatly. Although ants can survive almost anywhere, it’s where ants live in a house that causes people the most concern. There are a few types of ants that are common household pests in the United States, but two in particular can cause problems for people:  carpenter ants and fire ants. As mentioned above, most ants are harmless. However, carpenter ants can cause structural damage to trees, homes, buildings, furniture and decorative wood. Fire ants can be aggressive and will sting anyone or anything that gets in their way. While one or two stings are an itchy nuisance, multiple stings can cause a severe reaction. Like any other living creature, ants have basic needs. When thinking about where ants live, you should think about why they are there and what they are attracted to. Ants will seek places with food, water, and shelter. Many ant colonies exist outside, but the worker ants will forage for food in the surrounding areas. This may be why you see a trail of ants wandering across the kitchen counter, or near the bathroom sink – they will come into your home and take what they need, bringing it back to the nest for the rest of the colony. Ant habitat
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