Homemade Insect Spray/Treatment?

Question

I working around the house and I had a garden show playing on the television. They were talking about pests in the garden. They said something to the effect that a mixture of rubbing alcohol, dish soap and water would kill any garden insect and yet not be harmful to the environment or to the person eating the produce. Does anyone know (a) if these are the correct ingredients and (b) in what proportions they should be used? Guess I should have stopped what I was doing and paid closer attention. Oh well. Thank you in advance for your help. :^)

Answer 1

Here it is:
1/3 cup of rubbing alcohol (80% or more)
1/2 tsp of liquid dish soap
2 tsp baking powder
put in a 25-32 oz spray bottle fill with water
shake well.
Be sure to do this very early in the day as to not burn your plants. This is a very effective contact killer. It kills the insects it come into contact with almost instantly. Be careful it will also kill the beneficial insects if you spray them directly. Other wise safe for your garden , safe to harvest same day.
God Bless
Grandma

Answer 2

Yes, the home-made solutions work. It's all about outsmarting the bugs.
Here's something I used to get rid of crawling bugs on cabbage plants.
Early in the morning, or whenever the plant is wet, sprinkle plain white cooking flour onto the crawling bugs. It will suffocate them & they'll fall off.
When you see their insect eggs on the plants, pour sour milk on them. It will kill them but not the plants.

For most insects: Mix 2 tbsp cooking oil, and 2 tbsp baby shampoo in 1 gallon of water & spray. I think this works on the same principles as a dormant oil spray. In fact I've heard of people using cooking/vegetable oil as a substitute for dormant oil spray.

Another approach is to make a garlic spray by putting a crushed clove into a bottle of water and soaking for a day or two then converting to a spray bottle! The garlic smell confuses the insects & they go elsewhere.

For Aphids:
Blend on high for 10-15 seconds:
1 orange peel 1 tbsp baby shampoo & 2 cups water
Strain in coffee filter & pour liquid in handheld sprayer
First nock off aphids with hose, then spray plants on both sides of leaves.
The orange peel spray solution seems toxic to ants too.

Answer 3

No. they do no longer sense the sense like we human beings do. that's as a results of fact we've a extensive-unfold apprehensive gadget working via our vertebra (backbone) which sends messages to our concepts. this means that if if our leg is injury, we sense the discomfort on the right concepts. on the different hand, the bugs are non-vertebra and that they don't have extensive-unfold apprehensive gadget. to that end if an ant's leg is crushed, in basic terms the leg will sense nearby discomfort. apart from, their discomfort value is short, as a results of fact that they produce great form of off springs and their life is short. they are able to additionally reproduce their lost organs. that is been stated that in case you decrease a cockroach's head, it is going to die after a month as a results of ravenous. Scientists have decrease a lobster's leg and feed him, which he ate. it is likewise genuine that different than for human beings no different animal knows of its life.

Answer 4

Here is a good site, lots of great non-toxic home-made recepies for bug control:

http://monroe.ifas.ufl.edu/home_remedies_for_insect_and_dis.htm