Homemade Pest Control

[hippylee]

Originally Posted by DLD420

I posted this earlier (probably in wrong place sorry) I am having a problem with some little green worms with black heads about 3/8 in long. they eat at the leaves and leave a lace like hole in the leaf then they burrow into the buds and there is a web around the area the worm is found. Other than searching by eye is there anything made to kill these little suckers. So far I\'ve only found 5 on 1 plant and 1 on another but I think I found a batch of eggs that I got rid of. Any ideas what they are and what to do about them?

I think BTk kills those (sold under the brand name Thuricide and probably other names). It\'s a bacteria totally safe to humans & plants but it kills worms and caterpillars (and BTi kills fungus gnat larvae and mosquitos - sold as Mosquito Dunk or Mosquito Bits). Good luck!

[shadsgal2007]

My boyfriend has an ant problem on one of his plants. Any suggestions would be helpful.

[shadsgal2007]

Do you have any home remedies for red ants? My boyfriend has one plant that is being attacked and cant get rid of them. Any replies would be helpful. Thanks

[TorturedSoul]

Originally Posted by shadsgal2007

Do you have any home remedies for red ants? My boyfriend has one plant that is being attacked and cant get rid of them. Any replies would be helpful. Thanks

Bummer. Ants have aphids like people have cattle - and for the same reasons.

Get a little bottle of Terro® and put dime-sized amounts of it (on little squares of card stock) out for the ants. You'll soon see a few ants at each spot. Tomorrow you might see hundreds standing in line (yeah, they really like it). A day or two later you might start seeing piles of dead ants. A few days after that you won't see any more piles because there won't be enough living ones left to remove the dead ones. Just keep adding more Terro until you notice that what you put down a day or two earlier hasn't been consumed. At that point there won't be any ants left.

I think that the main ingredient in it is borax so you could probably just grab a box of the old-fashioned laundry helper and pour it around (anyone remember 20 Mule Team™ Borax?) but I'd just grab a bottle of Terro and save the Borax for laundry or for soaking shredded newspaper when you need to make cheap fireproof insulation (been poor? lol).

Oh and you can try putting an unbroken circle of ground cayenne pepper around each plant as ants don't like to cross it. I have heard of people dusting their windowsills and thresholds.

[MinniBratt]

Terro is the best at killin those ants...Dont know what i would do without it.

[indicabeat13]

i've heard vinegar is a good way to keep ants @ bay but will it do any harm to my grow?...especially since my babies are flowerin...