Organic Pest Control Tips

Here are a few organic pest control tips. The recipe will help to keep patio areas etc. free of mosquitos. Ants can be controlled without resorting to poisons as well.

Mosquito Repellant

What you need and what to do:

Mix garlic powder, water and some blue food coloring together and put the concoction in the fertilizer dispenser that hooks to the hose. The color is so you know when it is done dispensing. Just spray it all over the grass, vegetation and everything.

It will be effective immediately and the smell does go away quickly. It lasts for about 2 weeks or until the next hard rain. The stuff is pure magic.

Ant Control Solutions:

1. Mix borax with honey, a water/sugar solution or with dry sugar. Lace mixture into the lids of jars. Put around the nests and build earth up around the lid so the ants can get in and place bits of sticks from the edge into the mixture so they can get back out again. They will take the mixture to the nest where it will kill the queen and the young.
2. Mix Borax with water and pour it into the nest.
3. Set a hose up to drip into the nest at a good solid drip rate, in about three days the ants will move. Hopefully to somewhere where they won’t be a nuisance.

Ant Killer (safe for humans and other vertebrates):

What you need:


• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup molasses
• 2T yeast

What to do:


• Mix together and puddle mixture in lids (placed upside down with the goop in the middle) and place the lids in the ant's paths.

They will flock to it. They will eventually suck all the moisture out. It may start to look white because most of the molasses are gone, but that's ok, you really only wanted the molasses to attack the ants anyway and once they've found it they will make a trail to it. They take it back to the colony and feed the lovely sweet nectar to the rest, even the queen. Put new solution out as needed until they disappear. You then have killed the whole colony. But it will redevelop itself, so stay vigilant. Store excess in the freezer.

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