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How Do I Get Rid of Bugs & Pests?

Homemade Repellents Can Remove Household Pests

It doesn't matter if it is outside in your garden, or inside your home, every single one of us have, at one time or another, has to deal with pest problems.

There are a number of ways that you can rid your home of insects and other pests without having to spend a lot of money purchasing expensive products.

When you find that your garden is overcome with pests, you can create a mixture to control them yourself. Use one tablespoon of liquid dishwashing soap and one cup of cooking oil. Take a quart of clean water and mix with approximately three tablespoons of this concentrate. Fill a pump bottle with your mixture and spray as needed on plants. There is also another recipe you can try for insect control. Saturate citrus rind like lemon, orange or grapefruit in water for a few days. When the mixture is well marinated, pour the water into a pump bottle and spray on insect infested plants.

If you find that your kitchen shelves are overcome with ants, there are natural homemade methods to rid your home of these unwelcome pests. A cucumber peel placed on a kitchen shelf is an excellent way to prevent ants. The peel from a bitter cucumber will always work the best. You can also opt to try washing or spraying the infested shelves with a blend of vinegar and water.

One of the easiest ant repellents to create is with a mixture of soapy water. Place the soapy water into a squirt bottle and spray directly onto any ants you see in your home.

Basil is known to be a natural insect repellent. A pot of basil placed in your kitchen will go a long way in helping to eliminate any household pests. The next time you have a picnic, take a number of basil leaves along with you. If you place the basil on your picnic table or blanket, the flies will stay away.

Bay leaves are also a natural method of household pest control. Bay leaves left in your pantry will encourage pests to stay away. If you leave a bay leaf in a container of flour, cornmeal or cereal, it will prevent an infestation of weevils.

Peppermint planted around your house serves as a natural method for controlling both ants and mice. Cinnamon sprinkled around the foundation of your house is another way you can naturally control an ant infestation.

If you have found that you have a problem with moths in your clothing drawers there is a natural way to control these pests. Mint teabags can be placed in your clothing drawers as a natural way to repel moths.

One method for ridding your home naturally of cockroaches should only be tried if you do not have a cat. Catnip is found to be a natural repellent to cockroaches. The active ingredient in catnip is nepetalactone, which is non-toxic to humans and pets. You can create or purchase small sachets of catnip and leave them in high traffic cockroach areas.

Another option is to simmer the catnip in a small amount of water to create somewhat of a catnip tea. This tea can then be placed in a squirt bottle and sprayed around baseboards and behind counters.

There is a wonderfully effective method for naturally ridding your home of fleas. Fill a wide shallow pan half full of soapy water and place it in the area most affected by the fleas. Shine a lamp over the water and the fleas will jump towards the heat of the lamp and land in the water. The fleas will not be able to jump back out of the water because the detergent works to break the surface tension of the water.

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