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Creating your Garden
  • A variety of plants attract a variety of wildlife. Plant a mixture of species so that many different types of birds, animals and insects can find food and shelter.
  • Build homes and shelters for bats, toads and butterflies. (One toad can eat as many as 1,500 earwigs in one summer.)
  • Assist birds by using bird feeders (especially during periods of severe winter weather) and birdhouses, by deliberately growing bushes and trees that provide them with food and shelter, and maintaining a birdbath.
  • Use native species. Our songbirds take more readily to a familiar thicket of native dogwood or willow than to introduced, exotic species such as weeping mulberry. Native species provide food as well as cover, and are not as likely as introduced species to dominate other native plants.
  • Keep your domestic animals under control. A bell around the neck of an outdoor cat alerts birds. Domestic cats kill millions of songbirds every year.
  • Participate in the land–use planning process in your community to ensure that wildlife habitat, especially habitat for species at risk, is protected.
    http://www.speciesatrisk.gc.ca/help_e.cfm
  • Gardeners and farmers help wildlife when they avoid the use of pesticides.
  • Many birds die every year after feeding on fields, lawns, or golf courses immediately after treatment with short–lived pesticides.
  • Look for less harmful ways to control insects and weeds. Or, live with them – crabgrass and wasps are wildlife too.


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