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Green Home Jul 8, 2008

Eliminate Summer Creepy Crawlies with Natural Methods

If summer bugs have got you down, but you don't want to give in to that temptation to buy a fatty can of Raid, try these options instead:

Ants:

Ants hate red chili powder, dry peppermint, and borax or other powdered soap. You can sprinkle this along say, a doorway or crack where you see ants coming in. It's a little messy, but better than ants in your food.

Place pots of mint by doorways and on window sills.

Always keep your countertops clean. Basic soap and hot water works fine.

Cockroaches:

Well, you could have a messy house. I lived in New Mexico, and everyone, and I do mean everyone has cockroaches at one time or another. I was looking up some info on them and found out that they hate living in a mess. The whole common thought that cockroaches are dirty is a myth; they like it tidy. I'm not saying thrash your house, but...

Garlic is a good cockroach deterrent and so are bay leaves. You can grind one or both up in a blender with plain water, and spray it near infested areas.

Flies:

Use screens - I know easy right.

You can also make a fly death bottle. It's gross, but works. Eat a banana. Save the peel. Put the peel into an empty 2 liter. Fill with water but leave about 2 inches at the top. Flies (especially fruit flies) will fly in, but because of the 2 liter shape, they can't get out. Seriously, you can take out hoards of lame fruit flies like this.

More summer bug tips tomorrow.

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| iiveekee | Nov 4th, 2009

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How to kill pests without killing yourself or the earth......

| springpondbver | Jul 9th, 2008

How to kill pests without killing yourself or the earth......

There are about 50 to 60 million insect species on earth - we have named only about 1 million and there are only about 1 thousand pest species - already over 50% of these thousand pests are already resistant to our volatile, dangerous, synthetic pesticide POISONS. We accidentally lose about 25,000 to 100,000 species of insects, plants and animals every year due to "man's footprint". But, after poisoning the entire world and contaminating every living thing for over 60 years with these dangerous and ineffective pesticide POISONS we have not even controlled much less eliminated even one pest species and every year we use/misuse more and more pesticide POISONS to try to "keep up"! Even with all of this expensive and unnecessary pollution - we lose more and more crops and lives to these thousand pests every year.

We are losing the war against these thousand pests mainly because we insist on using only synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers There has been a severe "knowledge drought" - a worldwide decline in agricultural R&D, especially in production research and safe, more effective pest control since the advent of synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers. Today we are like lemmings running to the sea insisting that is the "right way". The greatest challenge facing humanity this century is the necessity for us to double our global food production with less land, less water, less nutrients, less science, frequent droughts, more and more contamination and ever-increasing pest damage.

National Poison Prevention Week, March 18-24,2007 was created to highlight the dangers of poisoning and how to prevent it. One study shows that about 70,000 children in the USA were involved in common household pesticide-related (acute) poisonings or exposures in 2004. At least two peer-reviewed studies have described associations between autism rates and pesticides (D'Amelio et al 2005; Roberts EM et al 2007 in EHP). It is estimated that 300,000 farm workers suffer acute pesticide poisoning each year just in the United States - No one is checking chronic contamination.
In order to try to help "stem the tide", I have just finished re-writing my IPM encyclopedia entitled: THE BEST CONTROL II, that contains over 2,800 safe and far more effective alternatives to pesticide POISONS. This latest copyrighted work is about 1,800 pages in length and is now being updated at my new website at http://www.thebestcontrol2.com .

This new website at http://www.thebestcontrol2.com has been basically updated; all we have left to update is Chapter 39 and to renumber the pages. All of these copyrighted items are free for you to read and/or download. There is simply no need to POISON yourself or your family or to have any pest problems.

Stephen L. Tvedten
2530 Hayes Street
Marne, Michigan 49435
1-616-677-1261

When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.