What green, pet-friendly, insecticide can I use to keep bugs out of my home and yard?
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I use borax. You can get it in the laundry detergent isle of most grocery stores.
And otherwise I keep most everything that would attract bugs sealed, and my house clean. Those two steps are two of the best insecticides I know of. They aren't fool proof but the cut down on the problem.
Liquid detergent works to kill bugs by giving them diareah.
Beer kills slugs. Boric acid kills roaches and ants
black walnut leaves keep fleas and some little insects out and off the porchand around the house .hedge apples as they are called here in the south keep spiders and other small insects out also if put in the four corners of your room.
Ladybugs! Ladybugs eat aphids and other pests and are very environmental safe. You can buy bags of live ladybugs at some home supply stores or on the internet.
A mix of Coca Cola, Dish soap and "tobacco tea"::
1 Can of cola
1 cup dish soap (hand washing type such as Ivory or Palmolive)
1 cup tobacco tea.
Make tobacco tea by steeping 1 bag of Red Man chewing tobacco or similar leaf tobacco in a gallon of water for a day.
Mix the ingredients.
Pour into one of the hose end spray applicators and spray your lawn
This will repel most undesirable bugs and is actually good for the lawn. Works as both an insecticide and a fertilizer... and is less harmful to the environment than most other things that work.
ELIMINATES FLEAS!
depends on what bugs you are referring to.
if you buy some egg cases of praying mantis that will pretty much take care of any bugs.
but i prefer Thuricide which is a bacteria that kills many at the larva stage on almost any plants and poses a minimum risk to beneficial insects/ Lady Bugs and Lace Wings for aphid control, and a once every other week shot of fish emulsion fertilizer as a folier spray, which seems to keep most pests away.
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Boric Acid. It is relatively non-toxic, cheap, easy to use and effective. For use indoors, sprinkle a line of it around the baseboards and in lower cabinets in your kitchen and bath to keep out cockroaches, ants, and other creepy crawlys. Outdoors, surround your entire foundation with a line of boric acid. Replace every few weeks because it blows and washes away. You can also dissolve it in a solution and spray it around the base of your foundation.
Safe to use around pets and children. It is mildly acid, so it may cause some skin irritation.
When I was young I lived in a low-rent townhouse which was totally infested with roaches when we moved it. Boric acid did the trick and killed them all. When the exterminator came in to spray, he said he expected to see roaches based on the state of the other townhouses. My house was totally clean.
You should try a pyrethrin based insecticide. This type of insecticide is made from chrsanthemum flowers. It works to control insects and is very safe for mammals.
get a barrel and make a brew with sigarette buts,garli and chilli,add some terpentine
when it is brown mix with some green liquid soap
and use as a spray ,this gets rid of most things
IN AFRICA we had camelions in the kitchen to keep down the flies
In Mexico we got a sort of small lizard that lives on the wall ,and sit near the lamps ,and eat mosquitos all night,
in the mango orchards we release laboratory bred wasps to attack and kill the caterpillars that go for the mangos
there are small chickens, called a silky or bantom or chaparito which are all small chickens that do not scratch ,but run after ,jumping and walking insects,they take care of about 70 percent of all garden pests.
feasants,guinyfowel,partridge will do the same work
iguanas kill grashoppers and all kinds of flying insects
birds we also dont kill
when the passion fruit is ripe ,a little black caterpiller comes and wants to destroy them,luckely a little finch type bird turns up and eats the black caterpillars.
In Mexico we have let mazacoas,which are, python type snakes in to the garden to take care of the rats.
InAfrica we released mole snakes into the garden and field to combat the plagues of Norwegian rats that were destroying the fields
ant eaters and armadillos take care of leafcutting ants that can destroy a large tree in a week.and eat beatles and such
potbelly pigs and deer and normal pigs are good in an orchard because they eat fallen rotting fruit which breeds a lot of small flies.
in our water reservoirs we put fish to eat the mosquito larvas.
i have bred tree frogs from eggs and released them in the garden to eat mosquitos and horse flies.
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I heard about putting in a dish some beer or was it wine,to ward off roaches,,,
In addition to "byderule" 's fine answer I would merely suggest to get Purple Martin houses to attract this fine insect eating bird.
These or any other kind of swallows that are found in your area. They seem to eat all day.
I frequent a place that has a bunch of Cliff Swallows and I tell ya there aren't any mosquitoes or any other pesky insects around! It's amazing! Then when I go about 3 miles from there, there are tons of bugs!
So ya, if you could attract insect eating birds with houses that they like that's probably a very cost effective way to control the bugs in your yard.
Good luck!
OK... lets go green by killing all the insects! I can't believe you actually typed that!
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