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Building a beautiful backyard you can enjoy is a goal of many homeowners, and with the right environment of beneficial insects and wildlife, your backyard sanctuary can become a reality. Here are some tips to help reduce your backyard pests and increase the bird and bee activity in your yard and garden.
Install Birdhouses
A good way to keep the number of insects reduced in your yard is by attracting a common predator of insects: birds. Install one or more birdhouses in your yard trees or on a birdhouse post to provide a spot for birds to rest and eat. There are many types of garden decor birdhouses for sale that you can install to add variety and interest to your yard along with attracting birds.
Make sure each birdhouse has a seed feeding box to place bird seeds for the birds to eat. Once local birds know you have bird seeds available in your yard, they will return daily and also prey on grasshoppers and other insects that may plague your yard. In turn, the birds will attract neighborhood cats to your yard. Once in your yard stalking the birds, the cats will also catch the scent of any mice living in your yard and hunt them as well.
When winter arrives, continue placing bird seeds in the birdhouses and add suet to their feeders. Birds need the extra fats that are contained in suet and will continue returning to your yard all year.
Cut Down and Remove Dry Weeds
If you are trying to keep pests from your yard and garden, you should remove any vegetation that attracts and houses them. Pests, such as mice and grasshoppers like to live in tall dry grasses and weeds. And if your yard includes a patch of dead weeds or grasses, cut and remove them from your yard.
Keep the area free of weeds and tilled, or plant vegetation or grass that you can water and keep lush and green. This will remove shelter that mice and grasshoppers like to live within.
Plant Flowers
Flowers not only add color and beauty to your backyard, but their bright colors and sweet-smelling nectar and pollen will attract bees from all around. Having more bees in your yard attracted to your flowers will help boost your garden and edible produce growth. With more flowers and bees, your vegetable produce and fruit trees will receive more pollination.
Choosing the right types of flowers to plant around your garden can also be used to repel harmful or annoying insects. Some varieties of flowers act as natural repellents to bugs that eat your plants, such as marigolds, petunias, and lavender.
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