Author Archives: Owen Jones

The Struggle Against Mosquitoes Across The World

Winnipeg has long been Canada’s mosquito capital, but Edmonton is giving it a run for its money this year. These days, mosquito traps in Edmonton are catching five times more mosquitoes that those in Winnipeg. Rainy periods followed by warm weather are blamed for the colossal rise in the number of these annoying insects. Continue reading

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Teenage Vegetarians

Teenagers are very suggestible and tend to be more left-wing than their parents, because they are under the influence of their teachers, who tend to be more left-wing as well. This tends to make teenagers more in touch with environmental problems and other world problems. This can send teenagers off in many directions, and one of the most popular, especially among teenage girls, is vegetarianism. Continue reading

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Eco-Friendly Bedding

Are you concerned about doing your bit to help save the planet? I mean, are you willing to pay a little bit more for something that has been manufactured in a way that is less polluting to the environment and the planet? Do you support organizations that sell items manufactured in far off lands in time-honored ways that are ecologically friendly? Continue reading

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How To Kill Bed Bugs In Your Clothes

You cannot tell where bed bugs are living; you cannot even guess, just by looking around you. You could be sitting in a chair in a fine hotel waiting for someone to come down or you could be having tea at a friend’s house and you are equally as likely to pick up a bed bug. Continue reading

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Christianity’s Holy Days

Christmas – is the celebration of Jesus’ birthday. Although the precise date of his birth is unknown, December 25th was most likely selected because it coincided with a pagan mid-winter festival. The ‘Twelve Days Of Christmas” mark the days between Christmas and Epiphany (January 6th), which was the day of the wise men’s visit. Continue reading

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How To Feed The Ants In Your Ant Farm

Ants are cold-blooded animals which means that they cannot keep themselves warm. If their environment is cold, they go into a very lazy way of life and practically hibernate, whereas when it is warm they run about the garden foraging for food to take home to the nest. The weather of the country that they live in along with its seasons determines which sort of ants can live there and how they will behave and when. Continue reading

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How To Prepare Natural Insecticide

A great deal of people are attempting to get away from using chemicals and nowhere more so than in the use of insecticides in and around the house. The problem is that modern chemical insecticides work, are readily obtainable and are pretty inexpensive. The same goes for home-produced insecticides, but you have to gather the ingredients and mix them together. Some find this little bit of extra work off-putting. Continue reading

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Ways To Know If You Have Bed Bugs

There is a whole generation in the developed Western world that is coming in contact with bed bugs for the first time in their lives. The Baby Boomers of the Fifties and Sixties and their children have never seen bed bugs in their native countries, because bed bugs were practically eradicated in the West in the 1940′s and 1950′s due to the widespread use of DDT to kill insects in general when the inner city ghettos were being cleared up after the Second World War. A similar course of action went on in the United States. Continue reading

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New York And Its Bed Bug Problem

This citizens of New York used to worry about the growing number of rats that was pestering their city, but these days they have something else to be concerned about. Bed bugs have invaded New York in a big way, a very big way. In 2004, there were 82 reported accounts of bed bugs in New York, in 2009, there were 10,985. That is a huge rise by anyone’s standards. Continue reading

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Destroying Ants With Natural Pesticides

Ants seem pretty harmless to a lot of people. In most temperate climates, ants do very little damage, although red ants bite people all over the planet. However, there are more serious ants in warmer countries and some of these ants can even be responsible for hospitalzations and even a few fatalities. Red ant bites itch and even hurt, but imagine a baby falling onto a red ant nest. Continue reading

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