Natures Best Pest Control
Cheap Pest Control Items
Spring is here and with it comes beautiful flowers and nice weather. Unfortunately, bugs and pests come too. If you know a something about the helpful bugs that visit or live in your yard or garden, you can save money on pest control. I am talking about natures best pest control – bugs themselves. Not only do you not have to worry about getting rid of these bugs but natures best pest control bugs will work to eliminate bad bugs in your garden.
Sometimes you need to exterminate and other times to let the insects do what they do best – eat other insects. If the insect is damaging your plant then yes, you must get rid of it but if it is a helpful bug that eats other insects, put out the welcome sign.
Sometimes the pests can be picked, washed or vacuumed off plants to control infestations. If you pull weeds on a regular basis you are engaging in one of natures best pest controls.
Here are some bugs that can actually eat bad bugs in your garden…
Centipedes – may look scary buy they feed on slugs and a variety of small insect pests.
Ground beetle – eat slug eggs and babies, plus other soil-dwelling pests.
Hornets and yellow jackets – are effective predators. However, if you are allergic or the hornets and yellow jackets are aggressive you need to get rid of them.
Lace wings – and all their alligator-like larvae eat aphids, scales, motes, caterpillars and other pests.
Lady beetle or lady bug – besides being really cute to look at, their larvae and adult bugs feed on soft-bodied insects such as aphids, mealybugs, scale insects.
Want more cheap natural pest control solutions? Check out our post on Homemade Garden Pest Control
Here is an extra tip I just discovered. If you have fire ant piles on your driveway, you can use regular bleach to destroy to them. The bleach kills the red ants and any weeds growing in the cracks.
Here are some free pest control recipes I got from CleanWaterways.org that are effective and will not hurt the environment:
Natural Roach Repellent and Killer:
Set out dishes with equal amounts of oatmeal flour and plaster of paris, or equal amounts of baking soda and powdered sugar, or equal amounts of borax and brown sugar. KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN AND PETS
Caulk cracks; close off all gaps around pipes and electric lines where they enter the house by using screening or cement.
Place bay leaves around cracks in room.
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