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82Attracting Frogs and Toads To Your Garden
Frogs and toads are tremendously beneficial to gardeners and anyone who loves to spend any time outside. They eat thousands of insect pests, including pesky mosquitoes and flies. (A single adult toad can eat...
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83Plant a Bee Garden
Beneficial bees are necessary to the success of gardens, orchards, and farms, but their numbers are in decline around the world. A bee garden is a beautiful and fragrant way to lend a helping hand. ...
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80The Winter Bird Garden
For many birds, winter is the most dangerous time of year. Deciduous trees lose their leaves, exposing birds to predators and the elements. Many food sources are buried under snow, while water sources may...
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70Attracting Turtles To Your Pond
Many pond owners hope to attract a few turtles to their ponds. Turtles are quiet, attractive, popular with children, and they eat lots of mosquitoes and other pesky insects. There are a number of ways you...
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80Save the Karner Blue Butterfly
The Karner Blue Butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) is a beautiful little blue butterfly with a problem. The only host plant for Karner Blue caterpillars, the wild blue lupine (Lupinus perennis), is...
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79Attracting Beneficial Insects To Your Garden
If you are making the switch to organic gardening, you may be concerned about losing plants to insect pests. In the short run, this is likely to occur. However, established organic gardens typically lose...
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80How To Attract Snakes To Your Garden
Despite their bad reputation, snakes can be a gardener's best friend. They will happily take care of insect and rodent pest problems for you free of charge. Garter snakes are considered especially beneficial...
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85Attracting Wild Turkeys, Quail, Pheasant, and Grouse
Whether you want to watch them or hunt them, attracting gallinaceous birds - turkey, pheasant, quail, and grouse - to your yard or acreage is surprisingly easy. Gallinaceous birds need relatively large...
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88How To Help Wildlife
Many people want to help wildlife, but aren't quite sure how to go about it.The numbers are daunting. There are over 11,000 endangered animal species in the world today, and many others in decline due to...
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81Attracting Birds With Prairie Plants
Whether you live on an acreage or the smallest city lot, attracting birds to your garden is easy with native prairie plants. The tallgrass prairie, which once covered much of the American Midwest, is one of...
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