Native Remedies For Bed Bugs
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: bed bugs, disease, gardening, health, holidays, house, illness, other, outside, pests, recreation, travel, Uncategorized, vacationThere are many historical solutions for things, including insect pests, that society in general has forgotten about. The funny thing is that lots of of the chemicals used in these circumstances are derivatives of the original Indian or historical remedies. For example, permethrin, onr of the best insect killers, is manufactured from chrysanthemums
Bed bugs have been in the Americas since the Eighteenth Century at least, but before that they had ticks, fleas and other insect pests and. native remedies were discovered to manage the numbers of these pests and they were discovered to work on bed bugs too.
Most people forgot about these old treatments with the widespread use of DDT during and after the Second World War. DDT was so effective at killing insects that there appeared to be no need to use the old solutions, because the old remedies frequently need continuous use to get effective, whereas chemical insecticides are far more powerful.
Although bed bugs were almost eradicated from the developed world, the same was not the case in Africa and most of Asia, where DDT was not used much. It is supposed that the reappearance of bedbugs in 1995 came from Africa and Asia, due to greater long-haul travel and migration.
Evidence for this theory is partly based on the fact that hotels are hit more than average with bed bug infestations when likened to the average Western home. Most people in the West will still pick up bugs from hotels and public transport such as trains, planes, taxis and buses.
Any pesticide that you use to kill bedbugs has the same difficulty to contend with. Bedbugs have a ‘thick’ waxy coat which stops the pesticide from contacting the insects’ skin, soaking into it and killing it by one means or another.
If you can wash or scrape this wax off, your problem is much easier. Diatomaceous Earth or rough sand will do this, if the bugs are made to crawl through it to squeeze into their homes.
These gritty substances will scratch the wax off over time - a couple of days to a week - so that natural insect control agents like chrysanthemum, neem, thyme and some other oils can get at them to do their job.
I do not know what the native people used in your country because I do not know where you live, but you are able to find out easily. Pine oil, cedar oil and teak oil are other natural substances derived from trees that ward off or kill insects.. The trees use these oils to deter insect colonies boring into themselves.
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on several topics, but is at present involved with Insect Exterminator problems. If you would like to know more, go over to our website at Bugs Infestation.
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