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CREEPY CRAWLIES (continued):

• There’s a difference between an insect and a bug. A bug is actually an insect with characteristics other insects don’t have, such as a stylet mouth (one that is shaped like a straw) that is used to suck plant juices. True bugs have thickened front wings, which are colored close to the body, but clearer and thinner at the wing’s hind end. Cicadas, aphids, and stink bugs are truly bugs, but ticks, beetles, and flies are not.

• Perhaps one of the most unpopular crawlies is the cockroach. It is one of the most adaptable creatures on Earth, which makes getting rid of them very difficult. There are more than 4,000 species of this pest worldwide. They are coldblooded and can live without food for a month.

They can even survive for a week without a head. Because they breathe through little holes in each body segment, they don’t need a mouth or head to breathe. After a week of being unable to drink water, they die of thirst. A cockroach is able to hold its breath for 40 minutes, and can survive being under water for 30 minutes. No wonder they are so hard to get rid of! It doesn’t take long for a cockroach to spread bacteria throughout a home – they can run 3 miles per hour (4.8 kg/hr). Although the average cockroach is ½” to 2” long (1.3 to 5 cm), one South American species is 6” long (15.2 cm) and has a 12” (30.5 cm) wingspan.

• In the British Isles, the ladybug is called the ladybird. The ladybug is a type of beetle that can be red, yellow, black, grey, or brown, depending on the species, and might have spots, stripes, or no markings at all. Red and orange ladybugs have seven spots, three on each side and one in the middle. The number of spots has nothing to do with this beetle’s age. The number and placement of spots are determined by its species and are fixed well before the ladybug is born.

• Many countries, including Russia, Turkey, and Italy consider the ladybug a sign of good luck and those folks will make a wish when one is sighted. Ladybugs are very useful creatures, as they feed on aphids and other garden pests.

• Termites cause nearly $5 billion in damage every year. These wood-destroying insects can destroy a home from the inside out before a homeowner even notices. Add up the weight of all the humans on Earth, and it will be less than the total weight of all the world’s termites!

About 10% of the world’s animals are termites.

Damp wood is an ideal nesting place for termites. So avoid infestation by dealing with leaking plumbing issues immediately. Be sure water drains away from the house, don’t stack any wood next to your home, and keep an 18” (45 cm) gap between soil and your foundation.

Although termites can be extremely destructive, they can be ecologically beneficial. They break down dead and decaying trees in the forest into rich new soil.

• Another 10% of the world’s animals are ants, with at least 1.5 million ants for every human being on the planet. There are more than 12,000 species of ants, and they can be found on every continent except Antarctica. One acre of Amazon rainforest is home to up to 3.5 million ants. Ants are hardy creatures, able to survive 24 hours underwater, with many varieties able to swim.

They are the longest living of all insects, with a life span of up to 30 years. When seeking food, the colony sends out a scout Continued ant, who wanders on page 5

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Cats are truly unique. This comes as no shock to you, the cat owner, but their uniqueness goes beyond adorable mannerisms, and all the way down to the molecules and enzymes in their bodies. Cats metabolize medications and drugs VERY differently than any other species. As a carnivore, cats are designed to eat a meat-based diet and their entire digestive tract is tailored to that scheme. Compared to omnivorous/herbivorous species, cats have more acidic saliva with fewer digestive enzymes, a singlechambered stomach that maintains a low pH even in the presence of food, and a relatively shorter intestinal tract. These carnivorous adaptations will effect how cats absorb and metabolize orally administered medications.

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• Massive communities of ants called supercolonies have been discovered stretching for thousands of miles, with the largest ever found over 3,750 miles (6,000 km) wide. Ants are capable of carrying 5 times their body weight with their mandibles.

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Follow these five tips to make your landscape look the best ever this season.

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Great looking landscapes have that “manicured” look and adding fresh mulch makes the landscape look neat and clean. Fresh mulch covers up ugly weeds, roots and levels soil. More importantly, it protects the roots of plants from temperature extremes, prevents weeds from germinating, prevents erosion and improves the look of beds.

Tip # 2 - Install seasonal color!

Well placed seasonal color beds will add a bright spot to the landscape. Areas around your mailbox, driveway, front door and garage entry are great locations for seasonal color. By adding an area as small as 6 foot by 3 foot in two or three locations, you can transform the look of your landscape.

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Are fruits and vegetables really healthy?

Let’s look at how our food is grown. Most with chemicals, some without as many, and some without any.

The large commercial factory farms produce most of the “fresh” food that is available today in the U.S. Their concern is quantity and looks not nutritional value. Factory farms use chemicals thought the process of growing our “fresh” foods. I call it a “process” because it is not natural. First they spray chemicals on the ground to kill all living organisms so they don’t have to deal with weeds and things.

Then they plant seeds or starter plants that have been genetically modified so herbicides will not affect them. This includes most of what we eat. Corn, beans, soy beans, peas, squash, cucumbers, etc…… even cotton. The term for these crops is “ Round-Up Ready”. In the growth cycle of the crop Round-Up can be sprayed onto the crops and it will kill weeds and pest plants but the round-up will not affect the “Food” crop because the chemical is already in the plant. When the chemicals are sprayed on the food crops they still absorb the chemical and hang onto it so we can eat it. YUM,,,,, let’s go out to the garage , grab our bottle of Round-Up and take a big drink. In reallality that’s what we are doing.

The purpose for this type of farming is to get a bigger harvest with less time and expense invested into producing the “food” and the big factory farms have a higher profit margins at our expense. Monsanto, the producer of Round-up says ingesting the chemical has limited health risks. It doesn’t kill everyone that consumes it , just a few. And which part of this equation are you in?

Let’s just throw a little logic in the whole scheme of things….does consuming chemicals on a daily basis make body healthy and strong like the advertising companies tell us. NOT……Daily consumption of these chemicals builds up in our bodies and is one of h the main reason why the health of Americans is deWay, Suiteclining 103 so rapidly. And our President and the Federal 029 Government is all in favor of chemical farming and has passed special laws protecting Monsanto so they can continue to poison the American public. h Way, SuiteMore 103 next time on some better ways to grow our foods.

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MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel • On June 14, 1789, English Capt. William Bligh and 18 others, cast adrift from the HMS Bounty in a mutiny seven weeks before, reach Timor in the East Indies after traveling nearly 4,000 miles in a small, open boat.

Bligh would fall prey to a total of three mutinies in his career.

• On June 13, 1895, Emile Levassor drives a Panhard et Levassor across the finish line in Paris to win the world’s first automobile race, completing the 732-mile course in 49 hours -- an average of 15 mph. His car was powered by a two-cylinder, 750 rpm, four-horsepower Daimler Phoenix engine.

• On June 15, 1904, more than 1,000 people taking a pleasure trip on New York City’s East River are drowned or burned to death when a fire sweeps through the boat. The onboard fire hose did not work, and life preservers had been filled with a weighty, non-buoyant material that sank.

• On June 10, 1935, two recovering alcoholics, one a New York broker and the other an Ohio physician, found Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), a 12-step rehabilitation program. Today there are more than 80,000 local groups in the United States.

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• On June 9, 1973, Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes to become the first Triple Crown winner since Citation in 1948. Secretariat’s heart was later found to weigh 22 pounds, more than twice that of a typical thoroughbred.

• On June 11, 1989, in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4, China issues a warrant for Fang Lizhi, a leading Chinese dissident, who had taken refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing. The diplomatic standoff lasted for a year before Fang and his wife, Li Shuxian, were given free passage out of the country.

• On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson, football star O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman are stabbed to death outside Nicole’s California home. With overwhelming evidence against Simpson, including his blood at the murder scene, Brown’s and Goldman’s hair and blood in his car and bloody shoeprints found at the scene, Simpson became the chief suspect. He later was tried and acquitted. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Servicing all gasoline - diesel powered vehicles Ten Best Caddy Responses . .

Number :10 Golfer: "I think I'm going to drown myself in the lake."

Caddy: "Think you can keep your head down that long?" ...

Number : 9 Golfer: "I'd move heaven and earth to break 100 on this course."

Caddy: "Try heaven, you've already moved most of the earth."

Number : 8 Golfer: "Do you think my game is improving?"

Caddy: "Yes . . . . You miss the ball much closer now."

Number : 7 Golfer: "Do you think I can get there with a 5 iron?"

Caddy: "Eventually."

Number : 6 Golfer: "You've got to be the worst caddy in the world."

Caddy: "I don't think so . . . .That would be too much of a coincidence."

Number : 5 Golfer: "Please stop checking your watch all the time. It's too much of a distraction."

Caddy: "It's not a watch - it's a compass."

Number : 4 Golfer: "How do you like my game?"

Caddy: "It's very good - but personally, I prefer golf."

Number : 3 Golfer: "Do you think it's a sin to play on Sunday?

Caddy: "The way you play, it's a sin on any day."

Number : 2 Golfer: "This is the worst course I've ever played on."

Caddy: "This isn't the golf course . . . . We left that an hour ago."

And the Number : 1 . . . . Best Caddy Comment: Golfer: "That can't be my ball, it's too old."

Caddy: "It's been a long time since we teed off, sir."

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