• How do you know if you have termites

    Updated: 2010-04-30 10:35:13
    How do you know if you have termites? Termites, by their nature, are hard to find. Thriving in hard-to-reach, inaccessable areas, they eat your home from the inside out. Although there may be only a few indications of termite activity, take a closer look at these warning signs: • Watch for the ...

  • How to Kill Carpenter Ants

    Updated: 2010-04-30 10:35:13
    How to Kill Carpenter Ant Carpenter ants can be difficult to control, the information provided is to help you get rid of and kill your carpenter ant problems.  Carpenter ants that enter the home are black and can vary in length from 1/4 to 3/4 inch. Unlike termites, all carpenter ants ...

  • How to kill carpenter ants using professional pest control products

    Updated: 2010-04-30 10:35:13
    Carpenter Ant control with Professional Pest Control Products You basically have only a few options and some will work better than others.  Exterior perimeter treatments will work well if you are using something like Premise or Termidor, there are both non repelling so ants will continue to move about the chemical ...

  • How to kill carpenter ants? ePestSolutions Online professional pest control supplies store

    Updated: 2010-04-30 10:35:13
    How to Kill Carpenter Ants: [caption id="attachment_595" align="aligncenter" width="160" caption="Carpenter ant"][/caption] Basics of Ant Control How to kill carpenter ants? ePestSolutions Online professional pest control supplies store has all the  information and recommendations necessary to get rid of carpenter ants. Product Recommendations for controlling Carpenter Ants are located at the bottom of this page Common ...

  • How to Kill Gophers with JT eaton Gopher Bait

    Updated: 2010-04-30 10:35:13
         Nice Video on JT Eaton Rodent Bait Blocks for rodents and Gophers on Youtube.com Gopher BAIT BLOCKS®   JT EATON™ ANSWER® For The Control Of Pocket Gophers KILLS GOPHERS #277   Sold West of the Mississippi only Resealable 10-lb. pail Packed 40 4 oz. bars per pail               JT Eaton BLOX BAITS Economical 9 POUND pail Peanut Butter Flavor...rodents just love the ...

  • How to Kill Bed Bugs Video ePestSolutions.com

    Updated: 2010-04-30 10:35:13
      How to Kill Bed bugs Video Slide Presentation   For Large areas this is a great kit with all key elements need to for Bed Bug control           Bedbug control and How to kill bed bugs is all available at epestsolutions bedbug At ePestSolutions we can help control bed bugs with our full line of ...

  • Reward Aquatic Herbicide to Control Duckweed in Ponds

    Updated: 2010-04-30 10:35:13
    http://www.epestsolutions.com/Reward/Reward+Herbicide.html   Diquat   Diquat, which is sold under the trade name of Reward is diluted in 50 to 150 gallons of water per acre and sprayed directly on the floating plants.         Diquat, which is sold under the trade name of Reward     ® , is used at 1 gallon per surface acre. Itis diluted in 50 to ...

  • Fire ant control with Fipronil Top Choice

    Updated: 2010-04-30 10:35:13
    Hello I have a fire ant investation in my yard. I am looking for some type of commercial repellant, iot is suppsedly like the front line stuff used on pets but will get rid of ants for a year. aNy help would be great Thanks Ben Top choice is the product you are ...

  • Wyoming Set to Spray for Predicted Grasshopper Invasion

    Updated: 2010-04-29 18:33:28
    (Beyond Pesticides, April 29, 2010) Pest control officials in Wyoming are prepared to spray swaths of U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property with insecticide if the state experiences a grasshopper outbreak this summer as predicted by officials. Based on adult grasshopper surveys conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health [...]

  • Yellow fever strikes monkey populations

    Updated: 2010-04-29 10:32:30
    A group of Argentine scientists, including health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society, have announced that yellow fever is the culprit in a 2007-2008 die-off of howler monkeys in northeastern Argentina, a finding that underscores the importance of paying attention to the health of wildlife and how the health of people and wild nature are so closely linked........

  • Hidden habits and movements of insect pests

    Updated: 2010-04-29 10:32:29
    For a high-resolution image of the Asota caricae moth referenced in the article, visit http://bit.ly/aB4PEb. The moth has a two-inch wingspan and a 2,500 mile distribution. Image is courtesy of Lauren Helgen, Smithsonian Institution. For a copy of the research paper, contact Jeff Falk at jfalk@umn.edu........

  • World Malaria Day 2010: pesticides save lives

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:54
    It's true. Pesticides save lives. The 25th of April is World Malaria Day, a good time to look at the important role pesticides play in the fight against one of the worlds deadliest diseases...

  • Organic, pesticides, and Integrated Pest Management

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:53
    If you didn't already know that organic farmers often use pesticides to avoid crop loss, you will after reading this post. Addressing some of the misconceptions about crop protection, and taking a look at Integrated Pest Management - an ecological solution for the prevention of crop loss...

  • 287 Chemicals Found in Umbilical Cords of Newborns

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:50
    With all the recent news and studies about phthalates, and the attention given to them by the EPA and FDA, we can sometimes forget that phthalates are just one type of dangerous chemical to which we’re exposed. In fact, we’re exposed to thousands of potentially harmful chemicals every day – and hundreds are showing up [...]

  • Easy Earth Day Action

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:28
    Earth Day is almost over. Almost, but not quite. There's still time to register with the Nature Conservancy, thus joining thousands of others who want to preserve the wildness in which Henry David Thoreau saw the “preservation of the world.”...

  • Report Raises Concerns About Bacterial Resistance to Triclosan

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:21
    (Beyond Pesticides, April 28, 2010) Having already requested the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) to assess whether an association can be found between the use of triclosan in cosmetic products and the development of resistance by certain micro-organisms, the European Commission is launching a public consultation on the preliminary opinion, which found in March [...]

  • Bill Introduced in U.S. House to Ban Atrazine

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:20
    (Beyond Pesticides, April 27, 2010) On April 22, 2010, Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) introduced H.R.5124, legislation to prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of any pesticide containing atrazine. The bill’s introduction coincides with an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) meeting this week to reevaluate the human health effects of the [...]

  • Support National Healthy Schools Day, Demand Toxic-Free Learning Environments

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:19
    (Beyond Pesticides, April 26, 2010) With the growing number of viable, cost-effective alternative pest management strategies, it has never been easier for schools to eliminate the unnecessary use of toxic pesticide in school buildings and on school grounds. In celebration of Healthy School Day, an annual event coordinated by the Healthy Schools Network, Beyond Pesticides, [...]

  • Dow Chemical Named Top Earth Day Greenwasher

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:18
    (Beyond Pesticides, April 23, 2010) In recognition of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the Dow Chemical Company is a proud sponsor of the Dow Live Earth Run for Water. Yes, that Dow Chemical Company. The same company that manufactures some of the most hazardous pesticides in the world, that was responsible for Agent Orange, [...]

  • Food Inc To Air on PBS’s POV

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:17
    Organic Authority - organic food, organic living, green living, organic thoughts.

  • FDA’s New Triclosan Factsheet Questions Need But Plays Down Hazards

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:17
    (Beyond Pesticides, April 22, 2010) In a new consumer factsheet posted April 8, 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) attempts to moderate the position it took in a February 23, 2010 letter to Congress in which it said, “[E]xisting data raise valid concerns about the effects of repetitive daily human exposure to these [...]

  • Take Action: Tell New York to Ban Pesticides on School Playing Fields

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:16
    Update: Last night the New York State Senate passed the Child Safe Playing Fields Act (S.4983). An identical version of the bill has been introduced in the Assembly and is expected to move quickly now that the Senate has passed its bill. While a different version of the bill passed by a wide margin last [...]

  • Towns Sue Atrazine Manufacturer for Drinking Water Contamination

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:15
    (Beyond Pesticides, April 20, 2010) Communities from six states filed a lawsuit last month in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against Swiss chemical giant Syngenta AG and its American counterpart Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., the makers of Atrazine. The 16 municipalities in the states of Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, [...]

  • Mississippi Passes Asthma Bill with a School IPM Requirement

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:14
    (Beyond Pesticides, April 19, 2010) Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour last week signed a childhood asthma management and prevention bill into law that includes provisions requiring all public school districts to implement an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program and prohibiting the use of hazardous substances such as cleaning products and pesticides. Although the bill reads as [...]

  • Take Action: Tell President Obama to Fight Malaria without DDT

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:13
    (Beyond Pesticides, April 16, 2010) Every day, children still die of malaria, a devastating disease that is both preventable and curable. In 2009, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a renewed international effort to combat malaria with an incremental reduction of the eliance on the synthetic pesticide DDT. [...]

  • World Malaria Day, 2010

    Updated: 2010-04-29 02:30:12
    2010 is an important year.  There’s 249 days left until the day set as the target for “The Decade to Roll Back Malaria.” The plan is that by the end of 2010: 80% of people at risk from malaria are using locally appropriate vector control methods such as long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLins), indoor residual spraying [...]

  • The Abyss

    Updated: 2010-04-22 08:49:40
    If you’ve never heard the name Lance Armstrong, you must have been living under a rock for the last decade. Winning the prestigious Tour de France bicycle race for the seventh consecutive year in 2005 made Armstrong one of the most celebrated athletes in the world. But if this is no easy feat on its [...]

  • Farming in Volcanic Ash

    Updated: 2010-04-21 15:19:31
    In Europe, the recent volcanic ash danger travels at high altitudes, but for Iceland’s farmers the problem is otherwise, which is to say very much on the ground. Farmers across the region where the volcano erupted under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier have been scrambling to protect their herds from ingesting or inhaling the ash, which can cause [...]

  • Crudeness Down South

    Updated: 2010-04-13 01:06:34
    It seems that when it’s not being burned, releasing into the atmosphere carbon dioxide, and thereby causing global warming, crude oil is finding other ways to ruin the environment. A pipeline this week spilled 18,000 gallons of crude oil into a canal in a wildlife refuge, roughly 60 miles to the southeast of New Orleans.

  • The Dangers of Tomb Sweeping in Taiwan

    Updated: 2010-04-09 08:01:18
    On Friday Taiwan’s government urged their public to stop burning incense sticks and ritual money to honor the dead and instead to opt for online worshipping as it fares better with Mother Earth.

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