Backyard Birding Tips

I have fed and cared for wild birds, since I am a 10 year old boy (I'm 52). I come with several
Ideas and ways of working clothes more fun for others. For example, keep predators away from your bluebird house tackboard with carpet on the post / pole Their nest box is sitting. What is the ideal bird bath, and much more.

Well, here's another tip and is just in time for a busy wasp and yellow jacket season. In the last two years I have researched andworked with "mint" as an insecticide and a deterrent for wasps, ants and mosquitoes. Online searches, chats with a local herbalist and of course, experimenting with my new brain child.

Some insects are attracted by color. Including by the smell and some hunt and feed by sight and smell. Most insects hate the smell of mint and plants in the mint family. Mint is also a neuro-toxin wasps. Get some mint on a wasp, and it is a dead insect. Are you still the idea?

EachTime to dab you clean and refill your hummingbird feeder, some "mint extract" on the feeder and the stirrup. Wasps and yellow jackets stay away or risk death. Because mint is a food, it wont harm birds. Lobsters, like most birds have a poor sniffer and the strong smell of mint does not bother them at all.

They serve a mixture of 1 ounces pure mint extract and 10 oz. Alcohol. Spray your nest boxes thoroughly and let it soak in. The rubbing alcohol evaporates, causing no damage and theScent of mint keeps for up to 4 weeks. Continue to spray as needed. If there is already a hornet's nest in your box, spray the wasps, and watch them die before your eyes.

I have not dealt with flies, but I'm out in, whether "is mint" to kill or keep interested flies from nest boxes. Anyone interested in helping here?

Try this out as well. Mix 1 ounces mint with 15 ounces of alcohol. You now have an insect repellent. When using these are the mosquitoes left me aloneand I smell good.

How to pass a dog day of summer to us, wasps and yellow jackets will eat more and more aggressive in their hunt to an ever growing population of larvae. Luckily, here in Michigan all winter kill, but the queens. But what about warmer climates, where a wasp populations grow and grow and grow,

Try it out, "Mint extract" an insect repellent, the earth is friendly. Amazing how nature provides for them, right?