Diatomaceous Earth will kill any insect with an exoskeleton, like cockroaches, bed bugs, ants, fleas, etc. by compromising their waxy coating and destroying their internal organs through dehydration.
Yet, you can eat diatomaceous earth. In fact, you do all the time in grain based foods because DE is added by companies as a bug killer.
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This stuff is great on fleas. Several years ago, my house was overrun with fleas. After using the insecticide bombs several times, I still couldn’t get rid of them. Then I heard about DE. Outside the house, I used a tree sprayer to cover the whole yard and house. The kind you hook up to water a hose. I used it to get underneath the house in the crawl space also. Inside the house, I used a duster type sprayer for the rooms that had carpet. No more fleas for a couple of years at least. Nonpoisonus and non-expensive. A 10lb. bag goes a long way.
Teresa N Melton Tilley you just take a handful and rub it into your dog’s coat. We had a couple of Great Pyrenees, and after I dusted them down, they looked like powder puffs running around.
Feed stores also carry this.
Robyn McLeod Yeaman
With a name like “diatomaceous earth” makes me wanna drizzle it over some vanilla ice cream… Who’s with me? Lol
Also works on plants
Brittnie Gilileo
Cool concept, but unfortunately, $#%&!@*roaches are amphibians. Don’t try to drown them.
I can use that. Thank you Tara