How to Kill Bugs without Poison

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Watch more How to Go Green at Home videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/81412-How-to-Kill-Bugs-without-Poison You don't have to bring poison into your home to get rid of bugs. Try one of these nontoxic killers. Step 1: Try diatomaceous earth Available at garden centers, diatomaceous earth is an odorless powder that is to many insects what Kryptonite is to Superman. Made of the fossilized shells of the prehistoric sea creature diatom, it causes critters to dehydrate and die. Step 2: Use essential oils on skin You may like the smell of peppermint, chamomile, cedar wood, and eucalyptus, but mosquitoes don’t--studies show these scents repel up to 93% of them! Sprinkle essential oil onto your skin, or add about 10 drops per ounce to your favorite sunscreen. Step 3: Use boric acid Sprinkle boric acid in cracks and crevices. It’s safe for humans but deadly to bugs; they walk through it and then digest it when grooming themselves. As long as the powder doesn’t get wet, it keeps working for months. Step 4: Make sweet poison Are you seeing roaches? Mix baking soda with powdered sugar and put it out on small lids. The sugar acts as bait, while the baking soda poisons them. Tip Don’t forget to put your poison in hard-to-reach hiding places, such as behind the refrigerator. Step 5: Block ants Got ants? Find the place where they’re entering your home and circle the area with a line of a something that has a strong natural scent, like cinnamon, mint, cayenne pepper, or coffee grounds. Ants won’t cross the line. Step 6: Scent your walls Wipe down your walls with lavender oil. The scent causes bugs to scurry away. Step 7: Spice things up Basil and bay leaves have been used for centuries as natural insect repellents. In fact, in many parts of the world basil is packaged inside bags of grain to protect them. Sprinkle your spices wherever bugs are a problem. Did You Know? Americans put 300 million pounds of pesticides on their lawns each year.

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Or just nuke your house from orbit

Or just burn your house to the ground

BORIC ACID IS POISON,,,,,,,,,,,,, !!

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Thanks for a Good idea!

I am sure you'll learn how to make it if you'll read woodprix HANDBOOKS from cover to cover :)

Using DE is inhumane... It's the equivalent of having microscopic glass fragments in every joint of your body! I wouldn't put a bug through that... Sure the are pesky at times, but they don't deserve that! I used to be maintenance for apartment complex and DE was being used, but I would not use that stuff. Glue traps for rodents are inhumane as well, I was successful at rescuing a baby rat from a glue trap once while working maintenance, but wasn't so lucky another time, it was too far stuck and I he was upset and I didn't want to get bit, so I saved one, and another suffered greatly because I could not free it. On the one I saved, I'll never forget that rodent, I took him outside, he didn't put up a fight, and I was able to pry his delicate feet off the glue, he ran off then stopped at the wood fence, looked back at me with those beady black eyes, as if to say thankyou for caring.

Boric acid isnt safe

Ya like I have diatomaceous earth laying round in my house..

thanks !!! now my home smell like indian spice market :)

HOW did HOW get that video up? Here is the HOW video on the fact that Boric Acid is toxic for dogs!
http://www.ehow.com/about_5453526_boric-acid-poisoning-dogs.html

Boric acid is toxic for dogs! Get rid of that picture.

Spend 150£ spry

Please dont waist you time only use gothal gel cost 50£ you never see them again i try everythin for 1,5 year only this gel kills use under worktop and units way from kid only use a bit not mach i use to have 1000 of them spred in to 3 flats i send 150 on smelly spry 1 year now not even 1 left

cockroaches turn off the ligth then after an hour surprise them with fly swaper and you have to say "i am ramboo" then start swaping them

Easiest method is a chameleon, trust me.

Easy, just stomp them.

I'm fine with cockroaches & ants. & maybe I'll have them as a pet if I can get some of them fresh. Not only I'm keeping them as a pet but I'm keeping them in my room. Keeping them only at room does not make them transfer disease from outside. & yes there's lots of cockroaches in my friend's kitchen. Nothin happens to them. Yes, they r living with that many roaches in their kitchen for years & years. R they sick? No. Look, ants(maybe) & roaches r natural enemy of bed bugs which r the enemy of humans. Believe me or not few days ago there used to be very very few roaches in my room. One of them I killed when it went inside the thrown noodle cover to eat the thrown parts. Anther I killed which got down in my feet while I was walking. Then another I found laying opposite unable to walk. I killed that one too. Maybe other roaches left my room or maybe there were no others. My room became cockroach free. Like 2 or some days later after that, my body started itching. I didn't knew it was bed bugs. Day by day it became more & more & then I realized it was bed bug & the things r serious. It completely ruined my last night. Then I thought, since when did this bed bug infestation started? I think & think in the middle of sleepless itching night & I realized that I'm not seeing a single roaches in my room while some days ago I used to see them freely moving here & there in my room, their sound of eating trashes. That time, I didn't had problem with bed bugs & now I had. I thought definitely roaches used to eat bed bugs when they were at my room. As soon as the horrible night passes away, I'll bring like 10 roaches from my friend's kitchen into my room. Then I opened the Internet to become 100% garuntee wither the roaches eat bed bugs or not. Yeah, they eats them. I shouldn't have killed the roaches. Bed bug is one of the worst case. I'll try to find a solution & if I can't, roaches will solve it. If I don't have any option then what? Either keep roaches in my room or those annoying bed bugs. So yeah, gonna get back some roaches into my room. Guys good luck with ur solution but mine is harmless roaches from my friend's kitchen.

i've done this icing sugar and baking soda mixture on the lid ....and cockroaches are avoiding it like a plague...are they some very intelligent cockroaches, or are they aided by greys from zeta reticuly, warning them what not to eat, or what?