Before reaching for the pesticides, it is worth considering greener options as these may well solve your pest control issues, whic...
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Greener pest control ideas are options that are natural and safe, but why bother with natural pest control? Because you don't want a home full of toxic pest control poisons.
Ants hate red chili powder, dry peppermint, and borax. You can crush and sprinkle peppermint near ant entryways, or sprinkle the chili or borax. Ants won't cross over this stuff. Full strength mint tea can be used as a spot treatment; spray near ant entries.
Bay leaves can be crushed and sprinkled wherever you see roaches. Garlic will also repel cockroaches (and other pests). You can grow a pot or two of it near your doorways or blend some cloves in the blender (mixed with water and liquid soap) and spray it near infested areas.
Use screens on your windows. Place bowls of crushed citrus skins in your rooms – flies hate citrus. If you've got fruit fly issues try this killer invention: Fill an empty litre soda bottle with water. Leave about five inches of free space at the top. Squeeze an entire banana peel (not the banana, just the peel) into the bottle. Set the bottle where the fruit flies are. This is the ugliest bug catcher you'll ever see, but I swear it will catch all the fruit flies in your house. Fruit flies are too dumb to understand how to get out of a soda bottle once they dive in after the banana peel (something to do with the curve of the bottle). Once they go in they can't get out and eventually drown.
You can find totally organic and natural flea repellents, such as flea free products. Also see these tips for naturally keeping your pets flea free.
Before packing up clothing, blankets, etc, wash them. Washing kills moth eggs. After washing pack items up tightly in a tightly sealed, moth-proof box. To repel moths in other areas (like closets), place cedar wood shavings, blocks, or cedar stuffed cloth bags in the area.
Spiders do help control other pests, but if you are one of the 50% of women or 10% of men in the UK with some degree of arachnophobia, then you will want to get rid of them as easily as possible. The most eco-friendly choice is to pick them up and throw them outside. An acquantaince of mine, however, has built up an impressive aim with a telephone directory in order to rid her house of spiders!
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