Speaker 1: Right now, let's say good morning to the host of
Speaker 1: Home on KFI. It's our house and this week our
Speaker 1: yard whisper Dean Sharp morning.
Speaker 2: Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1: That we're gonna talk about the birds and the bees
Speaker 1: and the plants in the trees and getting your house
Speaker 1: and your home.
Speaker 2: Ready for spring.
Speaker 3: Right spring is here. We got this weird spring weather.
Speaker 3: I mean I should say weird just because I don't
Speaker 3: think we're used to having such a full spring as
Speaker 3: what we're having.
Speaker 2: You know, it's.
Speaker 3: Sunny one minute, half an hour later, it's sprinkling again,
Speaker 3: and then it gets cold and it's warming. I mean,
Speaker 3: we're having a real spring in southern California this year.
Speaker 2: Nice and it's time. It's time to get ready.
Speaker 3: People here in SOCW we don't so much think about
Speaker 3: spring cleaning as we think about getting out into our
Speaker 3: yards and getting everything tuned up.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be the year. This is the year
Speaker 2: that I'm going.
Speaker 3: To have more life in my yard, more birds, song
Speaker 3: and all of that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: And we're going to help you do that this.
Speaker 1: Weekend, all right, And so let's just look at because
Speaker 1: there's lots of factors to come into play and there
Speaker 1: are good bugs, there are bad bugs that you need
Speaker 1: to consider as you're putting your yard together.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, mosquitoes are on everybody's mind right now because with
Speaker 3: the cold and the additional bits of rain and moisture
Speaker 3: come opportunities for mosquitoes to get really active once the
Speaker 3: weather starts warming up. And mosquitoes actually aren't that difficult
Speaker 3: to handle if you know what to do and what
Speaker 3: notot probably the biggest thing that I warn people not
Speaker 3: to do is don't waste money on bugs appers, and
Speaker 3: unfortunately there's a lot of misinformation out there about mosquitos.
Speaker 3: In fact, if you go into Amazon, which normally can
Speaker 3: be a really reliable source of information and products, but
Speaker 3: if you type mosquito control into Amazon, you're going to
Speaker 3: get a ton of references and hits on UV bug zappers.
Speaker 3: And I think they make everybody satisfied because at nighttime,
Speaker 3: you're sitting around and you know, you hear that.
Speaker 2: I got another one.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing, though, I'm not going to tell you
Speaker 3: that no mosquito has ever been killed by a bug zapper,
Speaker 3: but if it has happened, it's totally accidental because mosquitoes
Speaker 3: aren't attracted to UV light, not the way that other
Speaker 3: insects are. They are not attracted to that UV black
Speaker 3: light in the bug zapper. So you're really wasting your
Speaker 3: money when it comes to mosquitos on that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: What mosquitoes are attracted to are us exhaling. They see
Speaker 3: co two plumes above sources of animals, and so they
Speaker 3: can smell it and they zero in on us and
Speaker 3: they find us because we exhale.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, here's something bigger that also has wings
Speaker 1: that you want in your yard, and that's birds, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and you can attract them too, right.
Speaker 2: You can.
Speaker 3: You can totally attract birds. Birds, though, I got to
Speaker 3: tell you, are attracted once a yard is really functioning
Speaker 3: as a habitat for them. There are a lot of
Speaker 3: birds in our area, like in my neighborhood. There are
Speaker 3: a ton more birds in my yard than there are
Speaker 3: in most of my neighbor's yard because we've worked really
Speaker 3: hard at building a habitat. And habitat means that you've
Speaker 3: got water for them, that you've got food for them,
Speaker 3: that you've got places of cover for them, nesting areas
Speaker 3: for them, and that things are happening on a native level.
Speaker 3: And I say native, because really the beginning of the
Speaker 3: food cycle for birds starts down in the soil with
Speaker 3: worms and insects again, and unless you've got native plants
Speaker 3: going on your property, you're not actually going to have
Speaker 3: many insects. And a lot of people are like, good,
Speaker 3: I'm glad, I hate insects. Yeah, but the birds show
Speaker 3: up because they know that there's that kind of stuff
Speaker 3: happening in your yard. And the fact of the matter
Speaker 3: is that our insects in our area have very very
Speaker 3: narrow diets, they have very very narrow needs, and they
Speaker 3: have no use for non native plants.
Speaker 1: Interesting, So you're going to be talking about the circle
Speaker 1: of life in your own backyard coming up all week
Speaker 1: in long.
Speaker 3: And I will holding my little cat up and we
Speaker 3: will be singing the Lion King song.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I love that. Okay, So did you know
Speaker 1: what tomorrow is? It has to do with what you're
Speaker 1: talking about tomorrow? No naked gardening day.
Speaker 2: Naked gardening day.
Speaker 1: Yep, you know anything about it?
Speaker 2: That's not happening, Okay.
Speaker 1: And I think San Francisco is the top rated city
Speaker 1: in at least California for naked gardening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why am I not surprised. I don't know.
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, you can listen to all of this
Speaker 1: is going to be such fascinating information as you're putting
Speaker 1: your backyard and your front yard and your habitats together
Speaker 1: to make your home more hospitable to our little birds
Speaker 1: and bees. And we'll tell you, I'm sure you're going
Speaker 1: to be talking about bees a lot more too. We
Speaker 1: don't have time to do it today, but I know
Speaker 1: that you're a big backer of bees, and I love
Speaker 1: bees too. So that is tomorrow from six to eight am,
Speaker 1: and then again on Sunday from nine to noon. And
Speaker 1: it's called Home. It's right here on KFI with our
Speaker 1: very own Dean Sharp. You can also follow Dean at
Speaker 1: Home with Dean. That's right, Thank you, Dan Sharp.