Mother Nature does a wonderful job of keeping the pest
populations in control by maintaining a balance between them and their
predators. Environmental conditions, such as, the amount of rain, hours of
sunlight, and temperature levels all affect what pests will survive to
reproduce. When land is cleared to plant a garden, it changes the dynamics
between pest populations and natural controls.
Presence of ants, aphids, birds, deer, fruit flies, mealybugs, scales, slugs,
spider mites, thrips, and white flies can be quite irritating. Read more
to find out the best ways to get rid of them!
Swirling up out of the ideal conditions created by warm
ocean water, high air pressure and converging winds comes one of the most
devastating weather phenomenons on earth. With wind speeds in excess of 250
km/hour, hurricanes wreak havoc on large areas. Tropical cyclones (known as
hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean, typhoons in the Pacific
Ocean and cyclones in the Indian Ocean) develop over the oceans near the
equator. The word hurricane echoes the colonial Spanish and Caribbean Indian
words for evil spirits and big winds. It's an appropriate name for what at the
time must have seemed like a frightening and inexplicable event for residents
and sailors alike. Today, despite modern weather prediction equipment,
hurricanes still take a devastating toll on lives and property. Although they
rarely reach Canada at full force, Canadian homeowners are nonetheless affected.