Homemade Household Pesticides

Homemade_Insect_Repellants

Cockroach Control

4 parts borax
2 parts all-purpose flour
1 part cocoa powder

Mix; sprinkle where pets and children cannot get to it.

Cricket Bait

9 ounces Borax
2 1/2 ounces cornstarch
2 1/2 ounces plaster of Paris
1 1/2 ounces powdered cocoa

Mix together. Place in bottle caps near crickets.

Cricket Spray

5 ounces turpentine
5 ounces liquid soap
5 gallons water

Spray around foundation of house or garage.

Garlic Spray [for bugs]

6 tablespoons chopped garlic
1 pint water
2 teaspoons liquid paraffin
1/4 cup Soft Soap

Soak garlic in paraffin for 24 hours. Add water and soap and mix well. Strain the mixture and store the liquid in a glass jar for no longer than 1 week. This works well against cutworms, slugs, white flies, and wire worms.

Fly Paper

2 cups milk
2 tablespoons black pepper
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 tablespoons brown sugar
Brown paper bags, cut into strips

Boil milk, pepper, and sugar together for 5 minutes. Simmer uncovered 5 minutes longer, until thickened, and then let cool. Wind the brown paper strips into a tight roll and drop them into the milk mixture. Let them become completely saturated. Rewind the strips gently and let them air dry on a cookie sheet. They are ready to hang when they are sticky to the touch.

To use, suspend the strips up and out of the way wherever flies are a problem. CAUTION: Keep the strips away from young children, especially after they are covered with flies.

Early Spring Insect Soap Spray
This suffocates early spring insects, especially on fruit trees.

1 gallon light-grade oil
1/2 gallon warm water
1 pound laundry soap

Dissolve soap in water. Add oil and mix well to emulsify. Dilute with 20 times more water before use. Apply the soap while the trees are still in a dormant, leafless state, covering the tree thoroughly with each spraying.

Mosquito Deterrent

Submitted to Recipe Goldmine by Barbara Louise – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Source: a gardening forum

Put some water in a white dinner plate and add just a couple of drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dishwashing soap. Set the dish on a porch or patio. No sure what attracts them, the lemon smell, the white color, or what, but mosquitoes flock to it, and drop dead, or fall into the water, or on the floor within about 10 feet. Works just super!

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