Homemade Natural Insecticides Are Safe For The Family
How many times when you were a child, did you bite into an apple or other fruit and there would be some insect or other chomping away with you! Unfortunately these days there are a lot of harmful chemical insecticides used on the foods that we eat.
This article outlines some natural plant insecticides which are a safer alternative for our general health and wellbeing. You will, perhaps, be surprised that all natural insecticide products can be made from the most unlikely compounds.
The first two we will look at are called Rotenone and Pyrethrum. Rotenone is derived from the root of a sub-tropical plant called Derris and acts like a broad-spectrum completely natural insecticide that will poison via ingestion and contact. It is most often used as a dust or a spray and although it is completely non-toxic to plants, it is deadly to fish and reasonably toxic to warm blooded mammals, so that includes dogs, cats and humans. (more…)