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Ben Roethlisberger Hasn’t Always Been Sleazy, He Just Has a History of Being Sheltered, Arrogant, and Entitled
Ben Roethlisberger: Five years from now, when you’ve become rich and famous and are going through a rough patch, a media outlet will track down some of your high school and college teammates and/or “friends” and they’ll rip you to shreds. Clearly, Roethlisberger never heard this quote: “Be nice to people on your way up [...]
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Please Help! Whats the quickest easiest way to get rid of mice?

Theyre driving me insane! I live in NY in a 4 family building and unfortunately I think an exterminator is out of the question because my landlord cant access all of the units for legal reasons. Ive got rat poison everywhere, which theyve been eating…but they just arent dying! I killed 2 with glue traps (and reeses peanut butter cups) but it took weeks just to catch them! I have yet to find the hole that they are coming in from, but if I can access it, Ill stuff it with brillo pads. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

rodents are allergic to peppermint. Go to the natural foods supply store and get Peppermint OIL. (Not extract, the alcohol in the extract makes it evaporate to quickly.) Put it on cotton balls and leave them around the apartment. The oil makes their skin itch and they leave.

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Pest Control Using Plants

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Goats keep weeds under control at Boulder Reservoir
When it comes to killing weeds, Boulder’s methods might seem a bit unconventional. Rather than using chemicals to take out diffuse knapweed and three types of thisles along the dams at Boulder Reservoir, the city instead has brought in 300 goats that are happy to munch on the pesky plants.

Organic Pest Control: Hands-On or Hands-Off?

Organic pest control and the effective control of garden pests depends very much on gardener attitude towards approach. The most basic approach has to do with monitoring. It’s very important for a gardener to constantly monitor his/her garden through a series of logs and journals, which keep the gardener constantly up to speed on any pest attacks and plant health. Here are some examples of items one should keep in mind for effective pest control:

Sudden insect attacks, specifically from aphids, can occur seemingly overnight. While aphids can chew down leaves and stems, injuring plants, the plants can be smothered by the secretions left by the insects. What’s worse, certain types of fungi can grow on the insect secretions, which can suck essential vitamins and nutrients from the plant itself. There are organic ways to handle such garden pests, so further reading and study is needed beyond what’s included in this article. However, be prepared for this before any planting is done, as sudden attacks can destroy plants without swift action.

Lawns are especially susceptible to attacks, especially from caterpillars and other root-feeding insects. Why? Lawns, particularly new lawns, have very shallow root structures and can fall prey to predatory insects. Much like the example given above, swift action is needed if this occurs. Without an effective organic pest control plan, these insects can destroy a lawn within days.

Powdery mildew, if left unchecked, can have adverse effects on plants as well. Much like the fungi mentioned above, this mildew can suffocate plants. Ensure that plants susceptible to this are rinsed down with a gentle stream of water to wash off any mildew that might be present.

One of the basic tenants of organic pest control is to “let it be.” While it may be tempting to jump in and be “hands-on” with your plants to keep them pest-free, oftentimes it’s best to allow the environment to do its own work. While fungi and other pests may be present in your garden at any given time, avoiding the use of chemicals will allow your pests’ predators to keep them in check. Spiders, ladybugs, and other forms of predators should be allowed to remain in your garden to fight off the plant-eating pests that you’re trying to keep away.

While this isn’t a comprehensive review of organic pest control techniques, this should be a good primer in some of the methods one should consider if contemplating organic pest control instead of some of the more established methods.

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Simple Organic Methods to Combat Pests in your Veggie Garden

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Julie Williams asked:


Organic gardeners always prefer to use methods that have the least negative effect on the environment. By growing strong healthy plants we eliminate the threat of having large scale pest invasions. But when some pest populations do build up in our garden we should be asking “how can I encourage more predators?”, rather than “what should I do about all these pests?”

For every pest you have in excess there is at least one, and probably many predators that would happily relieve you of the excess. Sometimes is takes predator populations a little longer to build than it does the pest it feasts on, so give it a little time before pulling out the big guns – insecticides.

Remember that ‘organic’ does not mean less poisonous and that most sprays are indiscriminate. Bearing that in mind, here are some organic ways to deal with a few persistant bug problems.

Bug Juice – A very effective insecticide. Collect an assortment of pests – grasshoppers are excellent – from wherever you are having pest problems in your garden. Liquefy them in a blender with the addition of about a third of the volume of bugs. Strain and dilute to about 5ml of bug juice per 1litre of water. Spray on affected plants.

Snails and Slugs. Fortunately there are a few easy ways to deal with these ravenous creatures as they can devour your tender seedlings overnight. Ducks are great snail and slug hunters and will delight wandering around the garden in search and destroy mode. The only minor damage you can expect is from their heavy feed, but they’ll generally not eat your greens as chooks would. Of course you can collect the snails and slugs and throw them to your chooks if you keep them – they’ll be delighted! The best time for collection is dawn and dusk when it is moist. You can also make this job easier by having cardboard or similar on the ground where they will gather.

If you don’t have chooks or ducks another method is similar to the bug juice above. You need to gather some snails and/or slugs into a container with some sugar and water. Allow it to ferment for a few days then place in the blender. You can dilute it with water if you don’t have much ‘juice’ and sprinkle it around problem areas.

Another method is to make a coffee spray. This works by spraying it thoroughly on and around the seedlings you want to protect. When the snails or slugs cross areas that have been sprayed they absorb the caffeine and die. Dilute one part strong espresso coffee to 10 parts hot water. When it’s cool, pour into a spray bottle and spray on plants that you want to protect and the immediate area around them.

Then there’s the time honoured traditional snail catcher – yes, the beer in the jar trap. Partly fill a jar with beer (stale of course, you don’t want to waste the good stuff) and lay it on its side where they are most active. They are attracted to the beer, get drunk and die. What a way to go! An alternative to this is vegemite dissolved in water. They are attracted to the yeast.

Mealy bugs look like white, fluffy slaters. They are sap-sucking insects that cause leaves to wilt and go yellow. You may find them feasting away on your fruiting plants and ornamentals such as palms, ferns, orchids and succulents.

They prefer the sheltered conditions of a glass house or indoors. Mealy bugs exude a sweet, sticky substance called honeydew which can lead to sooty mould fungus and ants (ants feed on the honeydew).

The best way to deal with them is to prune off the most damaged parts of the plant and then kill any remaining bugs by dabbing them with a cottonwool ball dipped in methylated spirits. This will dissolve their waxy protective coating, they will dehydrate and die.

Scale are sucking insects that feed on plant sap. They form in thick clusters on the leaves and soft growth of many garden plants. They also produce honeydew as a waste by-product of their feeding. Heavy infestations can cause stunted growth and wilting.

If you only have a small infestation you can scrape them off your plant with your fingernail or a toothbrush. Larger numbers can be sprayed with a solution of homemade oil spray. You can also use the oil spray to eliminate citrus leaf-miner and red spider mite. When you coat them thoroughly, the pests are suffocated by the oil.

Home-made oil spray.

1. Add 500ml of vegetable oil to 250ml of pure liquid soap to a bowl.

2. Mix together in a blender and then store in a jar.

3. Dilute 1tablespoon in 1litre of water. Spray, making sure you get under all the leaves.

Have kitchen utensils and a blender that are dedicated specifically for the purpose of spray preparation.

Use all sprays with extreme caution and do not eat from any plant that has been sprayed for at least two weeks.



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Cinch Bug Lawn Symptoms and Home Remedy

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Dan Ezell asked:


 

You do everything right. You water, fertilize and mow with a methodical approach yet you find these circular yellow spots on you lawn. More than likely you have cinch bugs.

These nasty things will eat away at your grass sucking the juice right out of it then leave behind a poison that kills. They are most common in the South, East and Midwest. They love St. Augustine grass, Kentucky Bluegrass and Bent grass. They also like highly fertilized grass, and this is another reason I say too much fertilizing can be harmful.

Well, here’s a way you can test and verify if these pests have invaded. Take a teaspoon of liquid detergent, dish or laundry, and mix it with a quart of water. Then remove both ends of a tin can to make a tin tube. Push one end of the tin tube into the ground, about 2-3 inches. Then pour about 1 cup of the solution into the can. Wait about 5-10 minutes and watch for anything climbing or floating to the surface. You may be surprised at what you see coming up.

They tend to infest when there is a thick thatch, poor nitrogen content and lack of water. They usually appear during dry spells. They’ll colonize in the hottest and driest parts of your lawn. It may be difficult to distinguish drought damage from cinch bugs, but the “can” test will tell the tale.

There’s a simple, cheap and very effective home remedy for removing cinch bugs. In the Pest Control Pages at The Little Green Apple.com I have provided a modest recipe for insecticidal soap. In the mid-section of the “Yellow patches in my lawn” article there’s a cinch bug home remedy removal procedure that will allow you to rid yourself of these suckers. It’s cheap, quick and effective. If you choose to do this procedure you’ll want to grab the kids and gather the neighbors because it’s quite entertaining.

You can also try Scott’s Bug-B-Gone insect killer for lawns that will work great; just follow the instructions.

As another option, and if you’re wanting to use what’s around the house and relatively less expensive, make the insecticidal soap I mentioned above and add 4 teaspoons of isopropyl rubbing alcohol. Pour it into a spray bottle that you have labeled explicitly and spray the infected areas every 3 days for 2 weeks. This should take care of the little pests.

Taking preventative measures is always the best way to keep them out. To do so make sure your thatch layer never gets any thicker than 1/4 inch, keep your lawn moist and well watered and try to avoid over fertilizing.

Dan Ezell

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Exterminator In Philadelphia

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Planet 51 is an animated film directed by Jorge Blanco, written by Joe Stillman and starring Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman and John Cleese. Produced by Madrid-based Ilion Animation Studios and HandMade Films for $60 million, it was acquired for US distribution by New Line Cinema in November 2007. Planet 51 was released on November 20, 2009, by Sony Pictures Worldwide via TriStar Pictures. It was originally titled Planet One, but re-named Planet 51 because all “Planets” from 1 to 50 were already trademarked. Planet 51 is the most expensive movie produced in Spain.

The film follows a NASA astronaut, Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker (Dwayne Johnson) who lands on Planet 51 thinking he’s the first to set foot on it. However, he discovers it’s inhabited by little green people who live in a white picket-fenced world reminiscent of 1950s America. This frightens the aliens, who think he’s an invader.

The film has received negative reviews from critics.  Rotten Tomatoes reported that 19% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 53 reviews with an average score of 4.1/10.  Another review aggretator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating from 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film an average score of 39% based on 19 reviews.

Adam Markovitz of Entertainment Weekly graded the film a B regarding the film “delivers a few pleasant surprises, including a smart story”. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2½ stars, but positively wrote of the film being “perfectly pleasant as kiddie entertainment, although wall-to-wall with pop references to the American 1950s.” However, some critics such as Markovitz , Steven Rea of the Philadelphia Inquirer , and Brain Miller of Village Voice acknowledged the film is “an E.T. in reverse”.

Lem is just an average teenager working on getting the girl and furthering his career at the local planetarium – except that he’s an alien. At least to U.S. astronaut Captain Charles T. Baker who lands on Lem’s planet hoping for a quick flag plant and a hasty return to earth and his millions of screaming fans. But on this alien planet the media has tagged spacemen as brain-eating, zombie-creating monsters, causing Baker to run for his life and into Lem’s house. Now it’s up to the green native to get the clumsy astronaut back to his spaceship before military dictator General Grawl and mad scientist Professor Kipple manage to exterminate the Earthly visitor.


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