Natural Ways Of Eradicating Insect Pests There are times when it just seems that there are more insects than ever before. Perhaps it is the warmer winters and wetter summers helping them breed more easily, or possibly it is because not so many people are using pesticides in their gardens. It is quite comprehensible that a great deal of people do not like to use chemicals on their gardens, but not using anything at all results in a growth in insect numbers. Over the last fifty or so years, people have become more and more used to using chemical insecticides to kill indoor and garden insect pests because they are a faster and definite killer. So what can you do if you want to manage the number of garden insect pests, but do not like to use 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 some of the natural methods of killing insect pests. However, not all methods or plants will be obtainable in all countries. Stinging nettles: if you cut down a clump of stinging nettles and steep them in water for a week or more, chemicals will leak out of the nettles into the water. Strain the water off and spray it over your plants. It will kill or put off most backyard insects. You can also use it as a plant food, but you will have to be careful how strong 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 frequently in order to get the utmost impact. Washing Up Water: soapy water of any kind will kill aphids along with other garden insect pests. This is a very simple control to administer. Just strain your soapy water into a spray gun (like an empty window spray gun) and blast your aphids. Corn flour: you can dust this around plants or skirting boards to kill insects. If a tomato hornworm or a cockroach eats some, the corn flour will swell up in the insect's stomach with the bodily fluids in there and the insect will eventually explode. Pyrethrum: 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 be employed as a natural pesticide, 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 common tree in India and has medicinal properties as well as insecticidal applications. This natural insecticide repels insects by means of an active constituent that mimics an insect hormone. It makes it hard, 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.
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