How To Kill Insects Naturally There are times when it just seems that there are much more insects than ever before. Perhaps it is the milder winters and wetter summers allowing them to breed more easily, or maybe it is because fewer people are using insecticides on their gardens. It is fairly understandable that a lot of people do not want to use chemicals on their gardens, but not using anything at all results in a growth in the insect numbers. Over the last fifty or more years, people had become more and more accustomed to using chemical insecticides to kill house and garden insect pests because they are a faster and definite killer. So what do you do if you would like to control the quantity of garden insect pests, but do not like to spread chemicals? Well, you would have to go back to using natural insect pest killers, although most families have forgotten what their great-grandparents used to use to eradicate insects. The following is a list of a few of the natural ways of killing insect pests. However, not all techniques 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 discourage most garden insects. You can also use it as a plant food, but you will have to be cautious how strong it is. Rotenone: is a biological insecticidal. It is made from the roots of the derris plant. It kills by damaging the stomachs of insects. However, it is rather slow-acting and has to be reapplied frequently in order to obtain the maximum impact. Do not use it near fish though. Washing Up Water: soapy water of any kind will kill green fly along with other garden insect pests. This is a very simple control to administer. Simply strain your soapy water into a spray gun (like an empty window cleaner spray gun) and blast 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 puff 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 often 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| beused as a natural pesticide, funnily enough. It is very efficient at killing the eggs of insects. It also destroys insects themselves by clogging their breathing holes. In other words, they asphyxiate.
Neem is a very common tree in India and has medicinal as well as insecticidal applications. This natural insecticide deters insects by means of an active ingredient that mimics an insect hormone. It makes it hard, if not impossible, to digest food and it stops their cycle of reproduction. It works best of all on insects that primarily eat leaves. Owen Jones, the writer of this article writes on several subjects, but is currently concerned with Insect Exterminator problems. If you would like to know more, go over to our website at Bugs Infestation.