Category: Pest control

Use mosquito-repellent plants such as lavender and geraniums as natural ways to drive away mosquitoes. Here are 13 plants that repel mosquitoes — plenty to choose from and add to your garden.

How to get rid of cicadas? Don’t hire pest control. Cicadas won’t damage your lawn. Best options? Remove them, tolerate them, or eat them.

To treat fleas in the yard with diatomaceous earth, wait for a dry week and spread a thin layer over the infested area.

To treat the fleas in your yard naturally, use beneficial nematodes, diatomaceous earth, cedar chips, and natural flea killers.

Fleas get in your yard on infested rodents and pests. What attracts them is standing water, shady hiding places, and food.

The main signs of moles in your yard are volcano-like molehills and raised ridges branching across the lawn.

Have a pest-free yard with plants that repel fleas, such as lemongrass, wormwood, lavender, mint, and rosemary.

Zig-zag runways in turf, round burrow openings, and clipped plants are the main signs of voles in your yard.

Voles look like mice, make zig-zag runways, and eat plants. Moles have pink snouts and broad paws, eat insects, and build molehills.

Specific signs of armyworm damage include transparent grass blades, chewed and torn leaves, and well-defined brown spots.