Are you affected by allergy season and spring’s high pollen counts? Well, you aren’t the only one. A USA Today article, “Seasonal allergies emerging,” reported that at least 10 percent of Americans have seasonal allergies to tree, grass, and ragweed pollens. An estimated 60 million ... Read More
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10 Ways to Discover the Great Outdoors
Summer is in full-swing – even though it looks and feels significantly different this year. While you may be trading your beach or international vacation ...
Deck the Halls with these 12 Plants
Holiday plants bring the smells and colors of the season to your favorite spaces, be it under the mistletoe, next to the Christmas tree or ...
Fresh Herbs to “Spice Up” Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, no need to add extra spices to your shopping list. We’ve rounded up the best, easy-to-care for herbs to take your favorite dish, ...
Debugging the Myths in Concord, New Hampshire
Last spring, author Raymond Bial wrote a book, What’s Bugging You?, that teaches children the differences between good and bad bugs and helpful or potentially harmful plants. While reading the book, children learn how to become “pest detectives” around their homes and yards. Ray traveled ... Read More
Fertilizer and Water Quality
Most homeowners are becoming increasingly more aware of how their actions in regards to home maintenance, lawn care and more influence the environment around them. This is good news – we all need to play our part in protecting the world in which we live. ... Read More
Team Up to Clean Up – Boys & Girls Club of Manchester
As part of Debug the Myth’s efforts in New Hampshire, we are teaming up with local lawn experts Joe Gaukstern of Lawn Dawg Lawn Care, Tim Boyle of Giant Landscaping and Chris Pestana with JP Pest Services to help the Boys & Girls Club of ... Read More
Don’t Let Creepy Crawlies Give You the Heebie-Jeebies this Halloween
With Halloween just around the corner, many of us will be looking for spooky decorations for our home. Halloween favorites include the traditional spiders and cobwebs, rats, bats and more, but while these plastic decorations welcome trick-or-treaters and show holiday spirit, the real pests aren’t ... Read More
Day 5: Treat!
Today is the last day of National Inspect and Protect Week, so it’s time to treat for any problems you’ve found and to be ready for any future problems. In order for the INSPECT acronym to most effectively help you solve your pest problems, all ... Read More
Day 4: Clean!
Today is Thursday, and that means it is time to clean your home -- not the deep cleaning you instantly dread, but putting away and throwing away clutter. Pests need three things to survive: food, water, and a place to live. If you can control access ... Read More
Day 3: Eliminate
In the investigate step, we discussed the many ways and reasons that pests could enter your home or inhabit your lawn and garden, and now, after studying and preparing, it is time to eliminate the problems you may have identified. Pests need three things to survive: ... Read More
Day 2: Study and Prepare
After investigating your home for potential pest problems, this next step is all about arming yourself with knowledge about the problems you have identified. Here, you will want to study the problems you found while investigating and prepare to solve those problems. . By studying and ... Read More
Day 1: Investigate!
As temperatures start to cool, many of us will look for more excuses to spend time inside. But while we are enjoying the comfort of our warm homes this fall and winter, pests will be on the prowl for a cozy place to escape the ... Read More