What Is BugWatch

Learn: Bugs attacking your gardens, trees and shrubs? If so, you’ve come to the right place—The Neighborhood BugWatch™. With our community you’re not alone. Here you’ll discover the damage signs, learn the strategies and, best of all, find the solutions that your new found friends around the corner—and around the country—are using to battle the bugs for everyone’s benefit.

Connect: Contact bug experts and garden enthusiasts locally and nationally to answer bug related questions, solve pesky problems, and catch up on the latest “buzz” in your own neighborhood. You’ll find that BugWatch provides a one of a kind venue in which neighbors help each other control pests and beautify their gardens while and greenery while solving problems together.

Share: Offer your tips and techniques for controlling pests. Be the first to spot an infestation and sound the alarm with a live Bug Alert. These online warnings not only help BugWatch members to quickly unite to defeat these unwanted critters, but allow manufacturers to rush appropriate products to retailers in your local Zip code.

How To Use BugWatch

Prior to joining Neighborhood BugWatch™, you can browse various pages within the site to increase your familiarity with the community and gain a better understanding of what BugWatch is truly about. During your site exploration you may be prompted to login at certain points; this simply indicates that a page you are attempting to access can only be viewed by BugWatch members.

Once you’ve seen the value of connecting with members of your local community to gain information, learn tips and read stories concerning the way in which pesky insects can damage your lawn and garden, the next step is to create your own login name and password, and join your fellow Bug Watchers! Click on “Get Involved Now!” to start this simple process.

Upon clicking “Get Involved Now!” you will be asked to enter a username and password that will enable you to log into the site. You can also upload a photo or icon to personalize your homepage. This image will be displayed on your homepage. You will also be required to provide an email address to set up your account. Also, don’t forget to accept the terms of use!

Having completed the initial login, you will be able to personalize your BugWatch homepage! Customize the look and feel of your homepage by clicking the “edit my profile” button. In addition, as a BugWatch member, you will gain the ability to send messages and add photos and videos of the bugs giving you difficulties—even start your own “bug blog!”

Becoming a Bug Watcher provides you with a plethora of exciting opportunities such as: inviting others to become members, joining and/or creating local user groups, and starting blogs; all of which will occur simultaneously as you get to know individuals within and around your community! If you have any question or technical problems, click here to connect with our community manager.

Social Networking Glossary
  • My homepage: Click here and you will be directed to log in to your own Neighborhood BugWatch™ home page by using your username and password. If you are not a current member you will be asked to sign up. However, once logged in you will be able to send messages, post photos, and add videos. It is on your customized BugWatch homepage where you will gain the functionality to respond to the “buzz” (messages) from your fellow bug watchers.
  • Videos: If you are encountering problems controlling a certain insect that is damaging your lawn and garden, you have the option of uploading a video of your problem pest. Simply take a video with your personal camera and then upload it to your profile. Having a video of the pests. infesting your lawn or garden will help other bug watchers to better aid you in finding a solution.
  • Photos: As a Bug Watcher, you can also share photos just like videos. Perhaps you have a bug that is causing damage and you don’t know how to identify it, let alone treat it. Just upload a photo and ask your fellow members to assist you by providing their tips to aid you in resolving your dilemma.
  • Members: A member is an individual person that is a part of a group. As a member you have the ability to view the profiles of fellow BugWatch members in your community. Interested in what they have to offer, just send them an email. Our site protects member privacy by enabling them to employ a username instead of their own. You can also view your neighbors’ customized profiles, and identify who has been most active or helpful when it comes to solving their neighborhood’s bug problems.
  • Groups: A collection of members gathered together to be a part of a common goal or interest. You can join a newly established BugWatch group, create your own and learn which groups have been recently formed. The purpose of the group page is to provide our members with the options they need to either to coalesce around an existing group or form a new one that’s just right for them.
  • Blogs: A blog is an online dairy; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page. Use the Neighborhood BugWatch™ blog page to post your own blog or view those of other members. Blogs enable you to engage in conversation with fellow members and contribute to and participate in the community.
  • Message Board: This area is an internet-based forum for groups to chat and share information. Post a topic and engage in a conversation about the problems in your garden or help a fellow Bug Watcher with questions they might have about theirs.
  • Bug Guide: The Bug Guide is a resource of images, descriptions, and potential treatment options for bugs that are frequent pests in gardens, trees, shrubs, flowers and homes. This valuable resource can help you determine the name of the bug that is wreaking havoc in your garden, disrupting your home, or damaging your gardens and greenery.
  • Community: This page is an online community which enables you to learn, connect and share your bug problems, knowledge, and tips with people within your local community and around the country.
  • Community Handbook: You are viewing this page now! The community handbook provides you with information on how to use BugWatch, definitions of terminology, and contact information.
  • Bug Alert: This tool allows you to alert your fellow community members of a bug infestation plaguing your lawn or garden; the purpose is to not only alert Bug Watchers to the problem but to notify national manufacturers so they can respond by delivering appropriate product to your local zip code in order to help you and your community to defeat your pests in a timely manner.