Can i make a pesticide for bugs from eating my plants leaves?

Question

can i use things around the house to use as a pesticide or something to keep bugs from eating my plants, ants around my plants, spiders is a big one problem and grasshoppers the black and yellow ones. i dont like buying pesticides because so expensive.

Answer 1

Go to a bar in a bowling alley.

What you are looking for are cigarette and ciguar butts. These contain a powerful natural insecticide known as nicotine. Soak a handful or two in water overnight. Filter through a coffee filter and the brown, smelly solution will be a cheap, effective pesticide. Boiling the butts is a safety precaution to eliminiate the risk of tuberculosis.

Chrysanthemums produce a natural pesticide known as pyrethrin. Soak or boil the foliage to release the chemical. It is safer to use than nicotine.

Insects breathe by absorbing oxygen into their bodies through tiny openings. If these can be blocked, the insect will drown. A surficant is anything which will cause water to adhere to ahrd surfaces like glass or plastic. Ordinary soap can be quite effective at drowning many insect pests. It is especially effective when combinaed with pyrethrin or nicotine.

There are even free weedkillers available. The black walnut tree produces a powerful herbicide known as jugalone. Soaking and/or boiling green walnut husks releases the herbicide. Be careful because this is also a dye and will stain skin and clothing. It smells bad, but is harmless to animals.

Be careful not to overuse pesticides. Pyrethrin, nicotine and jugalone are not as toxic as synthetic pesticides, but if heavily applied the bugs will evolve resistance to them. There will always be a few pests who survive the initial aplication and they go on to breed pesticide resistant strains of insects. Also, natural insect preditors are also eliminated. therefore, use pesticides only as a last resort. Apply only as much as is needed to decrease the pest population. If the pests begin to multiply again, use another pesticide. Switching pesticides keeps the pests from becomming resistant to any one particular one, but only if the pesticides are not over used.

Answer 2

Sure tobacco works, but then you are still spraying poison. You might as well just buy a pesticide in that case.

What I use for plants inside and out, even my orchard and young spruce trees, is dish soap and water. I get a powerful spray bottle and drown the leaves, on top and underneath, and the stalks and stems too.

Been doing this for a few years now and it works really well.

Answer 3

Thats a good use for tobacco - soak a bunch of cigarettes in water and spray on the plants.  That'll kill the bugs.

Answer 4

You can take dish soap and spray onto the leaves, this traps and kills the bugs. Wash of within five minute or so....actually I have left it on with no problems....

Cinnamon for the ground.

Ants carry aphids where they want them, then milk them like we do cows, the spiders eat the ants. Kill the spiders and well you get it.....

Spraying  plants off everyday with plain old water  will kill aphids,gnats, spider mites.....warmth allows bugs to breed and we know it is getting warmer out there.

Doing anything to your environment will kill off good bugs too.....even natural applications will change the environment.

It is a daily chore to keep up with the bugs, but the environment will like you more if you stay away from the chemicals the best you can!

Answer 5

depending on the type of insect, there are different methods and formulas that work. when you say around the house are you referring to outside around or indoor around? If you have grasshoppers in your house that might be a bigger issue.

Natural pesticides are of course better. Make a 'tea' of cayenne, garlic and strain it to make a filtered liquid and put it in a spray bottle with a few drops of soapy water. Spray it on the stalk and leaves and that will keep many bugs away.

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