Natural Insect Repellent

Insect Pests

Insect pests are the main sources of biotic stress on crops. There are hundreds of insects that cause serious damage to crops and this include surface feeders that damage foliage by chewing, piercing, or sucking (armyworms, chinch bugs, cutworms, and sod webworms) and subsurface feeders, which attack roots and result in desiccation and plants that are susceptible to drought (grubs). In the olden days, these problems were controlled completely by chemical insecticide, which are now the main concern in inducing pollution. Which leads to poor development and progression of a number of health problems in humans and animals. Fortunately, there are ways to rid and repel insect pests from the crops plants without using chemicals.

What are they?

Natural insecticide can often be called an organic insecticide which includes any type of beneficial plant extract and involves production with zero used chemical compounds. Natural insect repellents are not only easy to make, they are cheaper and safer than many products available on the store shelves. Some methods even use products readily available in your home. For instance, insecticide based on garlic and chilies extract!

How to make Natural Insecticide?

Blend a bulb of garlic, 6 pieces of chilies and 500 ml plain water and leave it for 24 hours. Get the pure extract by sieving, to remove the remnant. The extract can be stored in the refrigerator for long term use. For application, mix 100 ml of the extract with a spoon of cooking oil, a teaspoon of dish soap and 1 liter of water and spray to the infected crop thrice a day at the leaf surface. Once a week application can be done for uninfected crops for insect control purposes.
Natural route is cruelty-free, vegan-friendly and has the assurance that no animals and living things were harmed.