What better way to celebrate Earth Day than to start in your own backyard. The Earth's creatures have simple needs, clean water, food and shelter - best if its dense vegetation with an open area nearby. Even in urban or built up areas creatures look for little oasis's of habitat that can fill their basic needs. All of these creatures and many more live in the backyard and can live there in balance. The insects are a fundamental building block of this ecosystem. The number one way to make your backyard an empty place is to use pesticides indiscriminately on the grass, trees and bushes - eliminating or poisoning nature's food supply. A reasonable compromise for Earth Day is to use spot bait to treat troublesome Fire Ants and put a chemical barrier right along the homes foundation for nuisance pests and termites and leave the rest of the backyard to nature. There are also options for safer pesticides. Our Screech Owls eat mole crickets, palmetto bugs, large spiders, any fashion of beetles and their larvae, lizards and snakes among other things that live beyond the house in the backyard.
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