As much as I try to handle pest control naturally, I am having a heck of a time dealing with bugs is year. The mosquitoes are particularly thick and ferocious. I cannot step off my porch after 4:00 in the afternoon without being attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes.
Today I found a bunch of Japanese beetles all over the roses. I picked off most them but will have to check the roses every day now so they don’t get eaten up by the beetles.
The spiders have become very prolific, too. There were spider webs in all the shrubs and I even saw one big Black Widow crawling through the grass toward a tree. I had to kill that one – they are poisonous and hard to get rid of.
Times like these I wish we had more birds and snakes around the house to eat and help eliminate all these bugs.
