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To: Dacula
He makes thing go "boom!".

I make an insect spray out of tea tree oil. It kills brown recluse spiders and does not harm the cats.

12 posted on 06/28/2020 1:12:48 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I make an insect spray out of tea tree oil. It kills brown recluse spiders and does not harm the cats.

Please share your recipe.


23 posted on 06/28/2020 1:15:47 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
and does not harm the cats.

Any ideas for sugar ants that is not toxic to cats? I used borax until some web site said that might not be good for pets.

35 posted on 06/28/2020 1:20:11 PM PDT by llevrok (Vote while it is still legal! And often.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“I make an insect spray out of tea tree oil. It kills brown recluse spiders and does not harm the cats.”

Tea Tree Oil is deadly poison to cats!


88 posted on 06/28/2020 1:52:48 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Tea tree oil is way too expensive to use as a bug spray.


111 posted on 06/28/2020 2:24:09 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Follow your Inner Trump)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Add some real liquid soap like Doctor Bonners. Real soap makes it stick better, plugs air organs and helps damage the waxy part of exoskeleton. Has to be soap not detergent from what I’ve read. If you have bunnies in garden use the liquid soap to make adhere to leaves mix with capsaicin and other ingredients that taste bad to the pests. Since soap based will wash off when your ready to eat. If you cant find the bad tasting ingredients in liquid form make it as a tea.


147 posted on 06/28/2020 3:33:34 PM PDT by airedale
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I don’t know about cats and tea tree oil, but I do know tea tree oil is extremely toxic to dogs. It will cause their major organs to shut down.


193 posted on 06/29/2020 6:43:18 AM PDT by bohica1
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