The Dangers of Insecticides: Opting for Natural Insecticides Instead
The Dangers of Insecticides to Soil, Plants and Animals
First of all, you should understand that using insecticides do not help your soil. It actually kills your soil to the extent that it’d probably become unproductive in the near future. You might as well say goodbye to great harvest now. The fact is that the use of insecticides actually places plants, animals and people in danger. Most insecticides contain harmful chemicals like neurotoxins and carcinogens. These are the chemicals that you spray on your plants whenever you use insecticides. These chemicals are not also doing the environment any favors. They’re not doing people’s health a lot of good as well. Unfortunately, most foods that people eat these days are covered with chemicals. These pose as threat to your health. It places people at risk to developing cancer. Not surprisingly, the clamor for natural insecticides is getting stronger.
The Availability of Natural Insecticide
The good news is that you can use homemade natural insecticides as an alternative to chemical insecticides. Because of these natural insecticides, you’d see organic products in the market. Natural insecticides offer a natural method of controlling the risks of harmful chemical exposures.
You can create your own homemade natural insecticides for your own garden or your farm. You’d be assured that you’d be serving fruits and vegetables that are free of harmful chemicals. You’d also bring down noxious waste production.
Learning how to create natural insecticides require research and a lot of reading. It’s highly doubtful if you’d be able to find anyone who’d hold your hands while you learn the process. There are also little books that you’d find on the subject. Your best alternative to learning the process of making natural insecticides is to go online. You’d find a lot of resources online that would teach you how to make alternative insecticides.
There are a lot of things that you can use as an alternative to chemical insecticides. Do you know that Dalmatian chrysanthemum has the pyrethrum that you can use as an insecticide? The dust form of pyrethrum kills insects by attacking the pests’ central nervous system. You can even use it as an insect repellant. It is not toxic and it is biodegradable.
You probably do not know either that you can use soap as an insecticide. This is very effective. However, use of soap should be limited and controlled since a large dose of soap applied to plants can kill them. It is also not a good option if your garden or farm is suffering from infestation.
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