Plant Pests and Ways to Control Them
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Title image above of the warfarin molecule is attributed to Calvero, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
(This article is loosely based on one originally published 15th March 2019 here on an animal breeding blog I wrote from 2017-2019. Every single image in that blog, including the maths ones, was..
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First published 20th November 2021
Updated on 27th February 2026
When you have fruiting trees, or grow other food, or have chickens, or feed wild birds, you are inevitably going to attract rats and mice.
Like homemade white oil, this rodentic..
03 Nov
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First published 3rd November 2021
Introduction
I do enjoy my citrus collection, and they are all healthy-looking and fertilised and watered regularly. But at the same time I’m sadly a very out-of-sight out-of-mind kind of person, and the tree..
02 Nov
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First published 2nd November 2021
Updated 29th October 2025
I’d never be without this classic remedy for arthropod* pests. Simple and dirt-cheap to make, lasts forever, and with the added bonus that arthropods* can never develop resistance to..
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