Since the invention of plastic earlier this century, it has become a popular material used in a wide variety of unique and innovative applications. Plastic is used to make, or wrap around, many of the items we buy or use. The problem comes when we no longer want these items and how we dispose of them, particularly the throwaway plastic material used in wrapping or packaging. Plastic is handy, lightweight and easily discarded. Too easily discarded.

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By Clint Sidney

So you have luscious fruit growing on your fruit trees and are looking forward to having a good crop. But you seem to be worried? Is it the thought of keeping Aphids, fruit flies and coddling moths at bay that is giving you sleepless nights? Sure these thoughts must be troubling you as they do every gardener, having an orchard. The surest and simplest cure for your troubles lies in organic gardening pest control, which is nothing but a bunch of healthy recipes to keep pests under control.

These organic gardening pest control solutions are easily available, extremely beneficial and easy to prepare as these employ things that we commonly use in our daily routine. Being organic in nature these are extremely beneficial for the fruit trees and can in no way harm them like the synthetic pest control remedies often tend to do.

1. Baits and Horticultural Oil – Coddling moths are best tackled with the help of sticky traps and corrugated cardboard. If facing this problem, you can use pheromone baits. Horticultural oil can be sprayed on the leaves of fruit trees for dealing with their larvae. This also proves beneficial in dealing with thrips, which are another common pest bothering fruit trees.

2. Organic Soap Solution – Sprayed in the evenings, this is another way to tackle the annoying thrips and spider mites that infest the fruit trees during late summer season. Apart from this one can also spay neem oil, which again works wonders.

3. Natural Predators – Aphids are best tackled when left to the mercy of natural predators. Make sure that you have plenty of these around to help you deal with this problem. Lacewings and lady bugs are some of the good natural predators that can help fruit farmers.

4. Borers are another variety of pests that attack fruit trees. To protect your trees from their onslaught it is advisable to cover up their trunk. However, if they have already been infected, which would be evident from tell-tale signs as wilted stems and stiff bark, inject the stems with nematodes. This helps kill the remaining larvae. It is advisable to pull off the badly affected stems.

5. Oriental fruit moths are another nuisance that fruit growers often face. To expose their larvae and deal with them it is advisable to till the soil around the affected trees.

The best way to protect your fruit trees from pests is to do it organically. You’ll be surprised with the results.

About the Author

Clint Sidney is a gardening enthusiast and enjoys giving information about Organic Gardening Pest Control. You can learn more about gardening at GreatGardener.eHelpshome.com.

By Aydan Corkern

Volcanoes can be found all over the world. Some are downright dangerous while others have been laying low for quite some time. Here are the top 5 dangerous volcanoes in the United States.

Taking the top spot for most dangerous volcano is Hawaii’s own Kilauea, which is considered to be the most active volcano in the world. Kilauea’s first eruption is believed to have occurred some 300,000 to 600,000 years ago, and the oldest dated rocks found are more than 20,000 years old. Surround Kilauea is a rainforest and other volcanic formations, and the volcano, which is located in Volcanoes National Park is open to visitors. It has been erupting continuously since 1983 and is predicted to last for as long as the planet lives.

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Mount St. Helens is located in Skamania County, Washington, which is over 90 miles south of Seattle. Mount St. Helens is particularly famous for the deadliest volcano in U.S. History that occurred on May 18, 1980 and killed 57 people, damaged 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles of railway, and almost 200 miles of highway.

Also located in Washington state, is Mount Rainier, located over 50 miles southeast of Seattle in the Mount Rainier National Park. The lava dates back to over 800,000 years ago. While it is a generally dormant volcano with limited activity, there is the threat of mudflows caused by the excess ice that accumulates atop the volcano. Nearby communities, such as Renton, Kent, and Auburn could very well be destroyed and parts of Seattle could be affected as well.

Oregon’s Mount Hood, on first glance, belongs on the front of a postcard or the cover of a traveling magazine. Its peak reaches in excess of 11,200 feet and houses twelve glaciers. The volcano is classified as dormant in the time being and the likelihood of an eruption during the next few years is unlikely. As a result, the area around Mount Hood has been open to recreational activities, such as fishing, skiing, and river rafting.

Last on the list is Mount Shasta, located in Northern California’s Siskiyou County. Shasta is a single formation with no other mountains surrounding it. Mount Shasta has been quiet for hundreds of years, the last eruption believed to have occurred about 200 years ago. During the past 10,000 years, Shasta erupted every 800 years but records show that it has erupted every 600 years during the past 4,500 years. Deposits from its eruptions can be found under its nearby towns and although the volcano is dormant for now, it is only a matter of years before it shall erupt again.

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By Debbie Davis

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Agricultural crop dusting has become a cost effective and accepted way to eliminate pests from crops. Many who live near farms have come to accept it as a part of their lives.

Great care is taken to spray the designated fields, but an unexpected gust of wind, a sudden change in wind direction, or a miscalculation can live you in the middle of a cloud of chemical dust. What are the effects of crop dusting on the health of people, pets, and the earth? There is still great debate on the subject. Those who are a part of the industry say that if the dusting is properly done, there are very few health threats can be linked to it. Others who live nearby have reported dead fish floating in nearby streams and rivers, many people have reported increased respiratory problems, and others attribute the death of love ones due to exposure to these chemicals. So who is right? Research continues to be done to determine if these chemicals are really at the root of many of the occurrences that people report, but there seems to be no definitive answer that all can agree on. There is a way to take matters into your own hands rather than wait for conclusive results from research. If you are sensitive to the chemicals, or just want to insure that you and your family are breathing the cleanest air possible you do have options. Even though you may not be able to control the air quality outside, or prevent crop dusting, you can control your indoor air by eliminating chemical dust from your home or office with a high efficiency particle arresting (or HEPA) air purifier that has a filter specifically designed to remove airborne chemicals.

HEPA technology is the same filtration method used in hospitals, and by definition is designed to eliminate 99.97% of particulates down to .3 microns. This means that for every 10,000 particles in the air, 99,997 of them will be eliminated.

And since you never know when the pesticides will be sprayed, having a cleaner that can operate 24 hours a day every day is a must. 24 hour filtration gives you and your family the best chance at breathing clean air all the time, regardless of what’s going on outside. As the debate continues about whether these pesticides are harmful, if you are unwilling to take a chance with your health by breathing this dust that is nearly impossible to avoid, other than selling your home and moving far away, HEPA filtration is your best chance at keeping your air quality as fresh, clean, and healthy as it can be.

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An excellent HEPA air purifier to remove indoor airborne chemicals that come into your home from crop dusting is offered by PurerAir.com– the HealthMate Plus Air Purifier See it now at http://purerair.com/healthmate_plus.html Debbie Davis, President, PurerAir.com