Pests, Be Gone! 10 Natural Ways to Make Your Home Critter-Free

Yahoo News ^ | 5/29/13 | Jennifer Noonan

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Cats love catnip. Mosquitoes? Not so much. According to Science Daily, catnip repels mosquitoes more effectively than DEET. Grow it in your garden or apply undiluted catnip oil to the skin for up to two hours of protection.

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I was asked this question by a fellow prepper about a natural mosquitoe repellent, hopfully this answers that question.

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Preppers’ PING!!

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PING!! The answer to your question.

[mbarker12474]

Really need something for raccoons.

[TADSLOS]

Diatomaceous earth for the crawlers.

[bray]

A 10 gauge is a good raccoon repellent.

[DuncanWaring]

So the trick is to chase the mosquitos away but make myself irresistable to The Cat?

[BlueLancer]

Hatsan Model 95 - .22 caliber air rifle.

[Hugin]

“apply undiluted catnip oil to the skin for up to two hours of protection.”

Works great! Now how do I get rid of all these feral cats?

[piasa]

There’s a natural form of “DEET” in the leaves of beautybush A/K/A buckbrush... a common small shrub that grows in the south and midwest in old fields which has clusters of soft pale pinkish flowers in early summer and clusters of hot pink or very bright BB-sized magenta berries in the fall. The berries are edible but quite bland, though turkeys seem to like them. A handful of crushed leaves rubbed onto the skin deters mosquitos.

[DCBryan1]

Medium rodent trap baited with peanut butter/sunflower seed mix. You’ll get every 4 legged varmint that can fit in the cage.

[piasa]

For some reason raccoons hate carrots, maybe someday there will be a carrot based habanero spray. Until then only dogs work against raccoons.

[ErnBatavia]

If you've got squirrel probs, Zinc Phosphide is magic....trade name Eraze AG.

I did one spreading of a few ounces in early April, and presto-zappo - haven't seen once since.

[DCBryan1]

Diatomaceous earth for the crawlers.

What do you do? Just put a 1" layer around the perimeter of the house?

Currently I am spraying x2/yr with a 2 to 1 ratio of Demon WP.

[meatloaf]

I’ll take things that go BANG! when you pull the trigger, Alex.

[TADSLOS]

Just sprinkle around the problem areas and near entry ways leading inside. It doesn’t take that much...just enough to grind the legs off the little bastards.

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During SHTF Cat is the ‘other white meat’. ;-)

Didn’t you watch ‘The Book of Eli’?

[ansel12]

That reminds me, preppers need to keep mosquito netting.

I keep head netting in my car for break downs, or any other situation.

[Bratch]

[DJ MacWoW]

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