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HOW TO: How to Make a Cheap and Easy Wasp Trap The Garden Grapevine shows us how to turn a plastic soda bottle into a wasp trap. Chances are you have everything you need to make one! Oh, and it'll trap other flying insects too--but no...
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HOW TO: How to make your own fly paper "This fly paper is delicious!" How couldn't it be with ingredients like this? 1/4 cup maple syrup 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 tablespoon granulated sugar brown paper According to Make Stuff, you just mix...
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HOW TO: How to Get Rid of Ants. They just coming, and coming, and coming...Try a sprinkling of food grade ofDiatomaceous Earth.Spread some black pepper over their entrance/exit, Add some baby powder to infected areas. Lay down some bay (laurel) leaves.Make a homemade...
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NEWS: Know Your Bugs. I can't bear to turn on the AC yet, despite the 90-degree afternoons, so often, our doors are wide open to elements. And with the breezes comes the bugs, and lately we've been visited by...
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HOW TO: Low Tech Insecticide I had used soapy water as a pesticide for indoor plants, but a few years ago, while kvetching about an outdoor infestation of box elder bugs (an example of the nasty things is pictured above),...
