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Solar-powered pest traps for the backyard?

Posted by John Zeaiter on

Gardeners in the southern hemisphere look towards the warmer months of 2014 with a sense of joy and expectation -- this being the real growing season. Time to order that tube stock and grow a variety of plants, trees, herbs and vegetables feed and mulch the garden and watch the backyard bloom.That's the gardening theory anyway. We've all had problems with pests, from fruit flies, to borers, to cabbage moths, to snails, to slugs and more. They are the bane of any gardener. However an article caught your correspondent's eye during the past couple of days which made me think...

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