Home-Made Pesticides
The idea of having insects running around the home, going where they like, is quite disgusting to most people. The thought of bugs running over you whilst you are asleep or foraging off your food in the pantry is quite off-putting too.
Most people go directly to the hardware shop to buy insect spray and poison. However, these days, lots of people are worried about using sprays because of the depletion of the ozone layer and because sprays kill indiscriminately.
Poisons can also be arbitrary killers of insects, unless the poison is specific to one pest insect or a group of pest insects. However, there are other methods of targetting pest insects using traditional methods, some of which have been placed in sprays and liquids and rebranded as modern.
Many people already have these insect killers in their food cupboard or garden shed, which will come as a big surprise to them. OK, you might not have boric acid in the kitchen, but it is easy to buy and if you add it to sugar and a little water or cola, ants and cockroaches will lick it up.
However, boric acid is indigestible to these bugs and it sets in their stomachs leaving no space for real food. Unable to regurgitate it and unable to consume anything else, they will starve to death.
You can distribute it in small puddles on shards of glass or tile or soak balls of cotton wool in the liquid and leave them lying in corners where other animals cannot go like behind a couch that is located against a wall.
You can use boric acid against termites as well, but you have to employ a different tactic. Termites eat wood and hence the difficulty, they will not take boric acid and sugar. However, if you mix the boric acid with paraffin or propylene glycol or even a thin oil, the liquid will soak the boric acid into the timber.
If the liquid does not repel the termites or after it has evaporated and worn off, the boric acid will still be there to kill the foraging termites. This is best used as a preventative course of action. If you have a significant infestation of termites, you require professional help ASAP.
Boric acid, also called borax, will also kill silverfish, but you require a different tactic again. Silverfish are able to survive on quantities of food that we are not able to even see.
Therefore, if you mix boric acid, flour and water into a very thin liquid, you can dip a rag into it and wipe it onto surfaces that you do not use frequently like window cills, the insides of cupboard doors and the bottom of wardrobes.
It will remain there for years and as silverfish, ants or cockroaches come along, there is a decent chance that they will discover it and eat it, causing their demise.
There are other home things that may be used too. Cornmeal is indigestible to cockroaches, so a piece of stale bread soaked in this and water will also kill.
Diatomaceous earth is useful against cockroaches and bed bugs, but it will not kill them, it just destroys their protective waxy coat to allow chemical insecticides to do their job.
Owen Jones, the writer of this article writes on many topics, but is at present concerned with how to get rid of pests. If you would like to know more, visit our website at Bugs Infestation.
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