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Organic Pest Control
We’re all searching for ways to live in a more earth-friendly fashion. But when it comes to gardening, it’s difficult to find out how to kill or prevent garden pests in a safe way.
Organic pest control has come a long way, and we’re lucky to have many more effective tools to resolve this problem.
Create Natural Barriers
Picking off grubs and other critters by hand is an easy way to reduce your pesky problem. You can also build many types of barrier environments which entrap the insects. Plugging holes is also fundatmental.
Snails can be caught hiding in damp places under rocks and towards the base of plants with straplike foliage. Simply exploring your garden and adjacent areas for potential insect hideaways is one of the most useful forms of organic pest control.
Use Biological Control
Encourage predatory insects such as green lacewings and dragonflies to feed on aphids and other pests that attack your plants. You can do this by placing a shallow bowl of water in the garden.
Beneficial insects such as dragonflies will hover around water. Bacterial insecticides such as B. thuringiensis could also be used against caterpillars. (more…)
