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How to Make an Insect Trap

How to Make an Insect Trap

Instructions Step 1: Get a clear bottle or milk jug. A soda bottle can be ideal for your needs. Attach a string around the mouth of the bottle. The string will be used to hang the jug in a spot in your yard. Step 2: Mix together sugar and vinegar. No...

How to Get Rid of Common House Geckos

How to Get Rid of Common House Geckos

Instructions Step 1: Call an exterminator. Since house geckos survive primarily on a diet of insects, chances are they are after the insects that might be living in your home. Get rid of the insects, and you'll likely get rid of the geckos. Step 2: Keep...

How to Attract Blue Jays to a Garden

How to Attract Blue Jays to a Garden

Instructions Step 1: Have the right foods that blue jays love. Place the food that blue jays love on a flat feeder or surface. They love acorns, raw peanuts, cherries and dogwood. Step 2: Attract insects by planting a lot of varied plants. All plants...

How to Dress for Bird Watching

How to Dress for Bird Watching

Welcome to Expert Village. My name is Wayne Petersen and I direct the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Important Bird Areas Program for Massachusetts. Today we're here at the Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshfield, Massachusetts. And, we're going...

How to Keep a Praying Mantis as a Pet

How to Keep a Praying Mantis as a Pet

Instructions Step 1: Select a Critter Keeper cage that is at least 9 inches tall. The cage should have plenty of screened windows so that you can easily view your captive Mantis. Do not get a cage that is excessively large as this will make it more...

How to ID Coyote Poop

How to ID Coyote Poop

Instructions Step 1: Find out if you are in an area likely to be inhabited by coyotes. They are most common in rural areas where there are woods and farmlands, but also may be found in suburban areas. You are unlikely to find evidence of coyotes in town...

How to Raise Guinea Fowl

How to Raise Guinea Fowl

Instructions Things You’ll Need: Guinea fowl eggs Incubator or setting hens High protein starter food Brooding pen Lots of space to roam Step 1: Order guinea eggs from a reliable hatchery. Eggs usually arrive between 10 and 11 days of ordering...

How to Use Cedar Oil as an Insect Repellent

How to Use Cedar Oil as an Insect Repellent

Instructions Things You’ll Need: Cedar oil Citronella or lemongrass oil Rubbing alcohol Distilled water Spray bottle Step 1: Purchase pure cedar oil to use as an insect repellent throughout your home. When diluted with rubbing alcohol or distilled...

How to Identify Song Birds by their Beaks

How to Identify Song Birds by their Beaks

Hello. Welcome to Expert Village. My name is Wayne Peterson, and I'm the director of the Important Bird Areas Program for the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Today, we're here at the Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshfield, Massachusetts, where we...

How to Diagnose Excessive Drooling in a Dog

How to Diagnose Excessive Drooling in a Dog

Instructions Step 1: Consider the breed of your dog. Dogs such as St. Bernards or English bulldogs may be more prone to drooling simply because of their anatomy. Step 2: Check your dog's teeth. Do his teeth look normal? Do his gums seem irritated? Does...

How to Keep a Pet Spider

How to Keep a Pet Spider

Instructions Step 1: Consider keeping a tarantula. They tend to be large and are only slightly venomous, although the bite itself can be painful. New World spiders can also flick urticating hairs from their abdomen when threatened. Although they vary...

How to Identify a Nuthatch Bird

How to Identify a Nuthatch Bird

Instructions Step 1: Estimate the size of this diminutive tree-creeper. If you see a bird moving up the trunk of a tree, and it's greater than 7 inches in length, it's a woodpecker. Nuthatches range between 4 and 6 inches in length. Step 2: Observe the...

How to Chase Lizards From a House

How to Chase Lizards From a House

Instructions Step 1: Watch what your indoor pets bring into the house. Dogs and cats may kill lizards and bring them in the home to eat later. Sometimes the lizards are only stunned and hide in your house to recover. Step 2: Clean up outside hiding...

How to Make a Peanut Butter Log for Birds

How to Make a Peanut Butter Log for Birds

Instructions Things You’ll Need: Small log Drill Peanut butter Step 1: Choose a log. Find one in the woods or maybe there's a smallish one in your wood pile if you have one. Somewhere in between 2 and 4 inches in diameter should do. Step 2: Cut the...

How to Make a Home For a Praying Mantis

How to Make a Home For a Praying Mantis

Instructions Things You’ll Need: Terrarium or aquarium Screen lid Substrate materials (soil, bark, or mulch) Spray bottle Water Water dish Logs and branches Thermometer Heat strips Non-toxic plants Crickets Step 1: Place the desired amount of...

How to Feed a Poison Dart Frog

How to Feed a Poison Dart Frog

Instructions Step 1: Purchase the insects that poison dart frogs enjoy eating. Give them fruit flies as well as crickets. You can purchase live insects for feeding at almost any pet store. You want to make sure that the insects are small and easy for the...

How to Clean a Horse's Water Trough

How to Clean a Horse's Water Trough

Instructions Things You’ll Need: A large scrub brush Non-toxic liquid soap A clean water source Don't Just Add Water! Step 1: Give buckets and troughs a quick but thorough scrub every time. Horse owners too often neglect their horses' water supply...

How to Feed Tropical Fish

How to Feed Tropical Fish

Instructions Things You’ll Need: Assorted fish food Step 1: Do your homework. Check out your local fish stores to see what types of food are available and if they are ideal for the types of fish you keep. Different fish species have different food...

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