Thars gold in them thar trees (orange oil)

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I bought a quart of orange oil yesterday for $16.00 a quart. Howard Garrett, the No. 2 orgainic gardening guru in Texas has written a book on Texas bugs. Garrett states that orange oil is a good antidote for stinging scorpions, the problem is, he doesn't tell how it should be used. Anybody ever go after scorpions with orange oil. Maybe if this stuff don't kill em, I'll at least be able to smell em coming.

-- Paul Primrose (wprimeroselane@msn.com), May 23, 2001

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Response to Thars gold in them thar trees

I would think if you have scorpions in your house ,and you are having trouble finding a natural pesticide that kills them,you might try a conventional one.Athough the poison in the scorpion is natural,I'd rather deal with the toxic affect of a synthetic pesticide then the bite of a scorpion.

-- SM Steve (a12goat@cs.com), May 26, 2001.

Response to Thars gold in them thar trees

I was having a scorpian problem in the house. I sprinkled some food grade Diatomaceous Earth around the floor one night. I woke up the next morning to not only a bunch of dead scorpians, but several other kinds of dead insects that I didn't know I was sharing my house with! I left the DE on the floor for a couple of days, then vacuumed it up.

DE is not a poison; it slits the skin of the insect and dehydrates it. Any insect that crawls thru it is doomed, altho it has no affect on earthworms. Food grade DE is approved by the FDA EPA, AMDA. It's in many products you consume.

Filter grade DE is heated/treated/ground larger for use in swimming pools. It will not kill insects, but will kill your critters if you feed it as a dewormer.

-- ~Rogo (rogo2020@yahoo.com), May 28, 2001.


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