Summer is just round the corner, and along with the warm weather comes insects and bugs. Spraying lots of insecticides will work, but the toxic chemicals linger around even after their work is done, and may be ingested by children or pets. Here are a few ways to get rid of pests using only safe natural rememdies.
Ants frequently invade houses during summer. Sprinkle some scented talcum powder around their points of entry. Ants find it uncomfortable and difficult to walk across talcum powder, plus the talcum powder tends to mop up the scent left behind by the ants, causing them to lose their way.
A good all-natural insecticide can be made by blending a few cloves of garlic and a small piece of ginger with a quart of water, and then straining the solids out and placing the liquid in a spray bottle. This kills aphids on plants in 1-2 days, and when sprayed at other small insects (including flies, mosquitoes, silverfish and earwigs), irritates and kills them rapidly. Be careful not to spray the liquid into your own eyes! For larger insects like cockroaches, the garlic-ginger spray won’t kill them outright, but when sprayed around their entry points, might deter them from coming into the house.
To kill larger insects, spray them with some soapy water. This gums up the breathing of most insects. This will kill cockroaches, though not as quickly as commercial insecticide sprays.
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