Mar
17
2012
How To Eradicate Pest Insects Naturally
Author: Owen JonesThere are occasions when it just seems that there are much more insects than previously. Maybe it is the milder winters and wetter summers allowing them to breed more easily, or possibly it is because fewer people are using pesticides on their gardens.
It is quite understandable that a great deal of people do not like to use chemicals on their gardens, but not using anything at all results in a boom in the insect population.
Over the last fifty or more years, people had grown more and more accustomed to using chemical pesticides to kill household and garden insect pests because they are a quicker and more certain killer.
So what do you do if you would like to control the number of backyard insect pests, but do not like to spread chemicals?
Well, you would have to go back to utilizing natural insect pest killers, although most households have forgotten what their great-grandparents used to use to kill insects. The following is a list of some of the natural methods of killing insect pests. However, not all methods or plants will be available in all countries.
Stinging nettles: if you cut down a clump of stinging nettles and immerse them in water for a week or more, chemicals will come out of the plants into the water. Strain the water off and spray it onto your plants. It will kill or put off a great deal of garden insects. You can also use it as a plant food, but you will have to be careful how concentrated it is.
Rotenone: is a natural insecticidal. It is manufactured from the roots of the derris plant. It kills by attacking the stomachs of insects. However, it is rather slow-acting and has to be reapplied often in order to obtain the maximum effect. Do not use it near fish though.
Washing Up Water: soapy water of any sort will kill green fly along with other garden insect pests. This is a very easy control to administer. Simply strain your soapy water into a spray gun (like an empty window cleaner spray gun) and squirt your aphids.
Corn meal: you can sprinkle this around plants or skirting boards to kill insects. If a tomato hornworm or a cockroach eats some, the corn meal| will swell up in the insect’s stomach with the bodily fluids in there and the insect will eventually pop.
Pyrethrum: made from geraniums: will paralyze an insect, but it will also wear off, so it is frequently mixed with a poison to finish the insect off. Otherwise, you can sweep them up.
A mixture of cow’s milk, flour and water can be used as a natural insecticide, funnily enough. It is very efficient at killing the eggs of insects. It also destroys insects themselves by blocking their breathing holes. In other words, they asphyxiate.
Neem is a very widespread tree in India and has medicinal as well as insecticidal applications. This natural insecticide deters insects by means of an active constituent that mimics an insect hormone. It makes it difficult, if not impossible, to digest food and it blocks their cycle of reproduction. It works most effectively of all on insects that mainly consume leaves.
Owen Jones, the writer of this article writes on many topics, but is at present involved with Insect Exterminator problems. If you would like to know more, go over to our website at Bugs Infestation.

