Environmental friendly pesticides?

Question

erm..is there anyone that ever heard of environmental friendly pesticides derived from tobacco??i would really appreciate if there's some infos bout this..

Answer 1

IN AFRICA we had camelions in the kitchen to keep down the flies

In Mexico we got a sort of small lizard that lives on the wall ,and sit near the lamps ,and eat mosquitos all night,

in the mango orchards we release laboratory bred wasps to attack and kill the caterpillars that go for the mangos

there are small chickens, called a silky or bantom or chaparito which are all small chickens that do not scratch ,but run after ,jumping and walking insects,they take care of about 70 percent of all garden pests.

feasants,guinyfowel,partridge will do the same work

iguanas kill grashoppers and all kinds of flying insects

birds we also dont kill

when the passion fruit is ripe ,a little black caterpiller comes and wants to destroy them,luckely a little finch type bird turns up and eats the black caterpillars.

In Mexico we have let mazacoas,which are, python type snakes in to the garden to take care of the rats.

InAfrica we released mole snakes into the garden and field to combat the plagues of Norwegian rats that were destroying the fields

ant eaters and armadillos take care of leafcutting ants that can destroy a large tree in a week.and eat beatles and such

potbelly pigs and deer and normal pigs are good in an orchard because they eat fallen rotting fruit which breeds a lot of small flies.

in our water reservoirs we put fish to eat the mosquito larvas.

i have bred tree frogs from eggs and released them in the garden to eat mosquitos and horse flies.

you can keep a barrel of water and trow in everybodies sigarette buts

this can be used for getting rid of ants

a mixture of green liquid soap with garlic and terpentine also gets rid of a lot of leaf eating pests

Lavendal is good for moulds

and there is a great variety of weeds that acts as pest repellents when ground up (such as Khki boss in South africa )

Marigolds and similar looking flowers around vegetable keep bugs a way

so does garlic ,mint ,spring onions ,oregano ,t5hyme

when planted near Tomatoes

a positive philosiphy with lots of Info is Permaculture ,

and there must be lots of info on the net on organic pest control Source(s) the Permaculture designers manual by Bill Mollison,which cost about 40 dollars.

and is the best all round book you can get,on Environmental design,.(tagiari publishing, [e-mail])

some other writers that are on the internet are

david Holmgren

Larry Santoyo

Kirk Hanson

Masanobu Fukuaka has written ,

One-Straw Revolution

The Road Back to Nature

The Natural Way of Farming

http://www.context.org/iclib/ic14/fukuok...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/masanobu_fu...

Simon Henderson

and Bill Molisson.

a representitive of the concept in USA is

Dan Hemenway at [e-mail]

[e-mail]

http://barkingfrogspc.tripod.com/frames....

http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/ypc_catalo...