7 Organic Pest Control Methods

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Beneficial Creatures: Many amphibians or reptiles, such as lizards or frogs, will happily gobble up your insect problem. Backyard birds will often do the same. It’s important to create a safe, healthy habitat for such animals to live. Keep your cats indoors, set up a birdhouse or maintain a small water source. But be sure you never introduce an animal not normally found in your area! Hand-picking: This may be time-consuming but in most healthy gardens it is an efficient, inexpensive (and sometimes, therapeutic!) way of taking care of small insect populations, such as tomato horn worms or aphids. Check the undersides of leaves, and squish bugs you find or remove the leaf entirely.

Bigger predators: such as chickens, garter snakes and ducks — appear to be the most dependable way to achieve long-term control of garden slugs, as well as several types of beetles, cutworms and many other pests. Ducks are reportedly sharp slug-spotters, whether you let them work over the garden in spring and fall, or enlist a pair to serve as your personal pest control assistants throughout the season. Before insects invade or become a problem, the following organic garden pest control methods should be applied to prevent infestations from occurring. You can check it out here, via the link below:

7 Organic Pest Control Methods