i recently saw a local news segment where the only thing the guy used to stop bugs was regular baking flour. Has anyone tried this? By the way his vegetable garden was beautiful!
2007-08-22 12:29:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
I've used flour to kill the cabbage loopers on my cabbage. If I see evidence of the caterpillers,I sprinkle it on lightly after it rains or when the cabbage is wet with dew. When they start to crawl up from where they've been hiding, they get pasted & die from suffocation.
2007-08-22 16:09:38 · answer #1 · answered by ANGEL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's good news. I've noticed the ones I spot in flour products are always dead, too.
Also, I've learned that a mixture of dish detergent and water do a good job sprayed on aphids and other small insect pests. ( And it doesn't seem to bother those ladybugs that snarf-up aphids, either.)
2007-08-22 12:50:02 · answer #2 · answered by Beejee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have not tried it, but if i wanted a good solution to the problem, and i heard it works, then id give it a shot, why not? flour is a natural thing, no chemicals, and if it works, sounds great! good luck with it.
2007-08-22 12:48:17 · answer #3 · answered by nnatindahat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL!!!
Angel, thank you for the chuckle. You said:
"they get pasted & die from suffocation"
What went through my mind was "They get wasted!"
2007-08-22 16:53:38 · answer #4 · answered by taylor5198 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well hey if it works let us know.I can see it might since insects get their air from under their body's and it suffocates them probably
2007-08-22 15:30:40 · answer #5 · answered by peppersham 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋