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Bugs, bugs, bugs! Say goodbye to those nasty, bothersome insects and bugs for the year. The cold weather is near. You know that this means they will all perish with that first frost. Or at least a great many of them will. I suppose a few will fly south and some will hide. The point is you won’t be needing mosquito repellant and numerous other DEET products. As much as I hate spraying this gunk all over myself daily during the summer months, I hate the bug bites worse. It always makes me laugh the way folks gripe about arachnids. Spiders may sneak into your basement or closet on occasion, but at least they don’t attack you relentlessly.

So I was staying up at my brother’s hidden cabin last summer. He thinks it’s so cool because it was constructed completely by hand. An Amish group built it for him. Okay, who am I kidding? That is one sweet little cabin. It has a loft and a wood stove. What else could a nature buff ask for? Anyway, I made certain to bring a few cans of mosquito repellant. I knew those little devils would be thick up there in the month of July. Heck, that’s probably when they’re the worst. I definitely know that ticks are horrible in the summer months. I ended up with a deer tick stuck to my forearm last July. This cost me some bucks at the doctor’s office. Not to mention the 60 pills I had to take for Lyme disease. That was a pain. The best way to avoid instances like this is tick and mosquito repellant. Wear plenty of this, regardless of how much you hate the smell. This is how you can warn them off and refrain from getting bitten. To make a long story short, I applied liberal amounts of mosquito repellant to my daughter and myself. We were the only two who did not get bitten by mosquitoes and other bugs.

Wal-Mart is a convenient place to pick up some useful mosquito repellant. Furthermore, I recommend a few other things if you’re headed up into the bush. Always carry a first-aid kit and a snake bite kit. Now you may snicker at the snake bite kit, but I assure you it comes in handy. I have used one of these on my daughter twice when she was stung by wasps. It literally draws the poison out and only leaves a red dot where the bite was. Pick up one the next time you’re shopping for mosquito repellant or outdoor supplies.

Skunks are indeed smelly little nuisances. With their strong and distinctive odor, they have become feared throughout the animal kingdom. Not only that, but the critters can also cause irreversible damage to your garden. Spring is prime skunk season, with the creatures digging holes, looking for worms, beetles and other delicious grubs to munch on.

You know there has been a skunk in your garden if there are shallow holes surrounded by piles of dirt or displaced plants lying discarded in the flower bed. What’s worse is, during the animal’s feeding time, another creature may frighten the skunk, forcing it to release a noxious odor that can stick for days or sometimes, even weeks. Until now, your only hope was that skunks wouldn’t target your carefully cultivated garden when they got the midnight munchies. Luckily, there’s a solution being hailed by gardeners and fearful home occupants – skunk repellent! Skunk repellent is a safe, all natural alternative to the cruel metal traps that people sometimes set.

Like all creatures, skunks have a well defined hierarchy. The difference between us and animals is that they define their turf by urine marking. Whenever a critter smells the scent of it’s superior, it will vacate the area and most likely never return. Using this method of natural, instinctive fear, skunk repellent uses the strongest deterrent possible, the ammonia scent of its predator, the fox.

This might sound messy and time consuming, but it’s just the opposite. Skunk repellent comes in crystallized form that can be sprinkled wherever you want. Taking only minutes to apply, you can now spend more time tending to your garden, rather then repairing it after a skunk free for all. Because it’s completely organic, containing no additives or chemicals, you don’t need to worry about child, pet, plant or even skunk safety. After all, you’re just trying to scare off the little guys, not hurt them!

Most of us don’t have the money to be trying repellent after repellent, only to find that they’re mostly useless fillers. Unlike other skunk repellents, this type has absolutely no fillers, which means more bang for your buck. Invest in a can of safe, all natural skunk repellent. It will pay off in the long haul. There’s no messy application process and no harm done to your kids, pets or plants. Best of all, skunk repellent is using the most powerful tool in nature natural, animalistic fear.