(ARA) – Homeowners may not have the pest bird problems that plagued Tippi Hedren in Alfred Hitchcock’s unforgettable thriller “The Birds,” but pest birds can still ruin your day.
Pest birds cost homeowners millions of dollars annually. The high concentration of uric acid found in some bird droppings can discolor paint, stain wood, and erode metal. [...]

(ARA) – Deer do some of their worst damage to your garden, landscape, trees and shrubs in winter, when other food sources are hard to come by.
“In the early 1900s, there were probably only about half a million deer spread out all over the country,” says James Messina of Messina Wildlife. “Today, there are more [...]

(ARA) – From backyard barbecues and pool parties to cultivating your landscaping and “recession garden,” summer fun is even better when shared with others … except when that group includes some unwelcome critters.
Humans aren’t the only ones who enjoy the warm weather. Flying, buzzing, stinging, four-legged and four-footed pests also turn out in force when [...]

 
(ARA) – When Bambi invites all his friends to dinner, make sure it’s not in your yard. If you don’t protect your landscaping, Bambi and his friends will be crunching tulips like candy and popping peas right off the vine. You can bet they’ll be stealing your prize tomatoes this summer and munching your mums [...]

Sipping coffee on your back deck on a beautiful fall morning, you look up and gasp — there in your suburban oasis stands a small herd of deer. For a moment you pause, enchanted. An instant later, as the deer begin to munch on your landscape, you realize they’re just not as awestruck by the [...]

My first trip to Cincinnati was an interesting one.  I had never heard of the pest and when I was asked to go out to the car, I decided to cut across the yard.  Halfway there, the voices yelling at me made me freeze. Did I just step into a swarm of wasps? Is my fly [...]

Whether Puxatawny Phil sees his shadow or not on Groundhog Day, there’s one thing for certain — spring will arrive as scheduled on March 21st and so will families of groundhogs, rabbits, squirrels, deer and other troublesome animals, each ready to pounce and plunder your garden, digging burrows where they’re not wanted, and otherwise coming [...]

As surely as spring will soon arrive, so will the critters that drive you crazy — moles and voles. Make this the year you send them packing before they can cause damage in your yard.
First, an attack plan for dealing with voles. They are herbivores that if left unchecked will attack flower bulbs and eat [...]

Preventative Treatment in the Fall Keeps Fire Ants at Bay in the Spring
(ARA) – As the summer months come to a close and autumn sneaks in, homeowners in the southern United States know one thing is for sure: Fall brings not only more comfortable weather, but also an increased fire ant threat.
A potential health risk [...]

It seems like everybody is having problems with Japanese beetles. If you have fruit trees, grape vines, roses, crepe myrtle, you’ll see Japanese beetles every summer.
Not native to the United States, Japanese beetles are like the gypsy moth, black widow spider, oriental carp, starlings, fire ants, dandelions plus a whole host of imported, unwanted [...]