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To understand "reverse osmosis," it is probably best to start with normal osmosis. According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, osmosis is the "movement of a solvent through a semipermeable membrane (as of a living cell) into a s olution of higher solute concentration that tends to equalize the concentrations of solute on the two sides of the membrane." That's a mouthful. To understand what it means, this picture is helpful:
A semipermeable membrane is a membrane that will pass some atoms or molecules but not others. Saran wrap is a membrane, but it is impermeable to almost everything we commonly throw at it. The best common example of a semipermeable membrane would be the lining of your intestines, or a cell wall.
Gore-tex is another common semipermeable membrane. Gore-tex fabric contains an extremely thin plastic film into which billions of small pores have been cut. The pores are big enough to let water vapor through, but small enough to prevent liquid water from passing.
In the figure above, the membrane allows passage of water molecules but not salt molecules. One way to understand osmotic pressure would be to think of the water molecules on both sides of the membrane. They are in constant Brownian motion. On the salty side, some of the pores get plugged with salt atoms, but on the pure-water side that does not happen. Therefore, more water passes from the pure-water side to the salty side, as there are more pores on the pure-water side for the water molecules to pass through. The water on the salty side rises until one of two things occurs:
The salt concentration becomes the same on both sides of the membrane (which isn't going to happen in this case since there is pure water on one side and salty water on the other).
The water pressure rises as the height of the column of salty water rises, until it is equal to the osmotic pressure. At that point, osmosis will stop.
Osmosis, by the way, is why drinking salty water (like ocean water) will kill you. When you put salty water in your stomach, osmotic pressure begins drawing water out of your body to try to dilute the salt in your stomach. Eventually, you dehydrate and die.
In reverse osmosis, the idea is to use the membrane to act like an extremely fine filter to create drinkable water from salty (or otherwise contaminated) water. The salty water is put on one side of the membrane and pressure is applied to stop, and then reverse, the osmotic process. It generally takes a lot of pressure and is fairly slow, but it works.
Education > Home Remedies
Home Remedies for GREEN LOW COST PEST CONTROL
Look for natural solutions,
don't use a can of chemical-filled bug spray !
Save the environment, save yourself money, and reduce your toxic environment and carbon footprint.
Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth, DE,
A Non Toxic GREEN Pesticide
DE is EPA approved and registered for use against indoor and outdoor crawling insects, including cockroaches, ants, bedbugs, fleas, boxelder bugs, carpet beetles, centipedes, crickets, earwigs, grasshoppers, ticks, millipedes, scorpions, slugs, and silverfish.
For use in Cracks, Crevices, Hiding and Running Areas, Under and Behind Appliances, and Wall and Floor Surfaces.
For use in and around homes, office buildings, restaurants, motels, warehouses, theaters, schools, hotels, and food handling establishments.
Diatomaceous Earth, DE, is used as an insecticide, due to its absorption properties. The fine powder absorbs lipids from the waxy outer layer of insects' body causing them to dehydrate.
DE is a odorless and nontoxic powder.
It's edible.
Read more about DE , Diatomaceous Earth !
WIKI DE Facts
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Natural freshwater diatomaceous earth is used in agriculture for grain storage as an anti-caking agent, as well as insecticide.
DO not use POOL Diatomaceous Earth, it has been heat processed, causing the chemical makeup to change.
OTHER Methods:
Apple Cider Vinegar is a great herbicide. Use it to kill weeds and repel insects !!
put it in a spray bottle with water.
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To kill ants, use a paste of equal parts of borax and confectioner sugar.
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Mix mint apple jelly and boric acid for ant control.
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Leave a few tea bags of mint tea near areas where the ants seem most active. Dry, crushed mint leaves or cloves also work as ant deterrents.
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Spray ants with a bit of soapy water.
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Mix peanut butter (six parts), brown sugar (one part), one-half teaspoon salt with boric acid (one part) for ant control.
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Mothballs are another handy insect control device for the garden. You've probably heard of using mothballs in the closet to protect your sweaters, but you can also use them to kill bugs on potted plants.
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Baking soda repels Bugs and intruders alike baking soda. Place a border of baking soda around the area.
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For bug control, spray vinegar around door and window frame, under appliances, and along other known ant trails.
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If ants are coming in through doors or windows, put a cinnamon stick across the path.
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Mix three cups water, one cup sugar and four teaspoons boric acid powder for ant control.
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Sliced or crushed cucumbers to keep cockroaches away from food.
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Mix equal parts of boric acid powder, powdered sugar, and cornmeal as a poison bait for cockroaches.
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Mix equal parts of plaster of Paris and powdered sugar as a poison bait for cockroaches.
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It is a little known fact that roaches like high places. If you put borax on TOP and inside of your
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kitchen cabinets and inside, if space allows between ceiling and cabinets, the roaches will take the borax to their nests, killing all of them.
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Black pepper is another home remedy that works great for pest control in the garden. If insects are harassing your flowers, plants, and vegetables, simply mix pepper with flour and sprinkle it around your plants.
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Fly paper. Boil water, sugar and corn syrup together. Spread the extra-sticky mixture on brown paper grocery bags and voila you have your own fly paper which will trap flies.
Keep a spray bottle of soapy water on hand. Spraying roaches directly with soapy water will kill them.
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Use banana peels to repel fleas. banana peels also may help headaches and migraines. Just put it on the back of your neck.
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Barriers act like barbed wire to keep crawling pests, such as ants, out. These include garlic - grind it up with water and apply - cayenne pepper, cinnamon, powdered charcoal, bone meal, talcum powder or chalk
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Feed yeast to dogs to repel fleas.
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Baking soda solution - Dissolve 5 ml (1 tsp) of baking soda in 1 liter (4 cups) of water and add a few drops of liquid dish soap to make the mixture adhere to plant leaves. Spray on as a preventative against powdery mildew, rust and blackspot
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Cloves smell better than moth balls and are a natural deterrent against winged pests.
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Fleas HATE Stash Earl Grey Tea. Tear open a few bags, scatter the tea about on your carpet and vacuum up in a few days.
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For flea control, add a little vinegar to your pet's drinking water to fight fleas and mange.
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For flea control add ½ teaspoon to the wash water or a few drops to the pets shampoo.
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Suspend a light bulb over a pan of oil or soapy water to attract and drown fleas during the night.
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slicing up cucumbers instead of spraying toxic chemicals because they don't want toxic chemicals in their homes or in their garden sheds. There is growing evidence that synthetic pesticides pose a health risk to humans and animals.
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For a fly repellent - 2 cups vinegar, 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon Eucalyptus oil, 1 tablespoon citronella oil - Put in a spray bottle and spray.
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Mix water with cornstarch into a paste and apply. This is effective in drawing out the poisons of most insect bites and is also an effective remedy for diaper rash.
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Corn Gluten Meal may not sound very appetizing, but it's a natural, preemptive strike against weeds.
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For mosquito bites apply lime juice diluted with water on bites with cotton ball.
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Aluminum foil can successfully keep hungry insects and slugs away from your vegetable garden. Simply mix strips of aluminum foil in with your garden mulch to deter bugs and slugs. In addition, since foil is reflective, it will shine light back up onto your plants, giving them a solar boost.
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For insects and pests Place a clove of garlic in a blender and add 500 ml (2 cups) of water. Blend until smooth. Pour the liquid into a container, cover and let sit for 24 hours. Filter through cheese cloth or a strainer. Add 3 drops liquid dish soap
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If you're using the barbeque, throw a bit of sage or rosemary on the coals to repel mosquitoes.
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Put an opened bottle of Oil of Pennyroyal Essence in the room you want mosquito free.
Grind rosemary leaves into a fine dust and sprinkle it onto your pet or its bedding to ward off fleas.
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Try mixing up some baking soda in a bucket or water and spraying on plants. This will help prevent a small amount of disease from spreading and wiping out your whole garden. You can even mix baking soda with oil sprays to help stop pests and fungus at the same time.
CONDIES CRYSTALS - (Potassium permanganate) A few drops in a bucket will turn the water pink. Controls powdery mildew and is used by some gardeners to kill ants in potted plants. Toxic to worms!
COPPER SPRAYS - Copper oxychloride, cupric hydroxide and Bordeaux mixture are used to control a range of fungus diseases including mildews, anthracnose and leaf spots.
DERRIS DUST - Derris is made from the ground root of the rotenone plant (Derris elliptica). It is used to control chewing insects. While it is allowable under organic growing regimes it is toxic to worms. Some gardeners use it for lawn grub control..
DIPEL or BT - This is a naturally occurring bacteria (Bacillus thuringiensis) that affects some types of caterpillars. It has been cultured and is available in a powdered form from nurseries. It is sprayed on to plants.
NEEM - Neem oil is extracted from the neem tree (Azadiracta indica). It kills insects by contact, ingestion and also acts as an anti-feedant. It is currently only registered for controlling of fleas.
it's nontoxic to birds, mammals and most beneficial insects. One word of caution - it can sometime affect bees so use it as a spot treatment to minimize contact
PHEROMONE TRAPS - A pheromone is a non-toxic species-specific scent produced by the female insect to attract the male. Pheromones are often used as the attractive in baits and traps.
PYRETHRUM - Natural pyrethrum is extracted from the flowers of Chrysanthemum cinerariafolium. It will kill predators if used indiscriminately, so be sure to spray late in the day when bees have returned to their hives. It is used for a wide range of insect pests, particularly beetles. Synthetic pyrethroids or products in which natural pyrethrum is mixed with piperonyl butoxide are not allowable under organic gardening regimes.
SEAWEED SPRAYS - Foliar sprays made from seaweed have been found to be very effective in reducing fungus diseases that affect leaves and flowers.
SOAP SPRAYS - Soap sprays break down the waxy layer of the insect exoskeleton causing the insect to dehydrate. Be sure to use pure soap and not detergent.
SULPHUR - Dusting sulphur and wettable sulphur preparations are effective against mites and powdery mildew.
Take a gallon of hot water and mix in six cloves of garlic, a tablespoon of hot peppers, a minced onion and a teaspoon of soap. Let it sit for a few days and then drain out the liquid into a spray bottle. If you apply it regularly to plants, even the smell will keep harmful pests off your plants. It also helps to deter small animals like mice and rabbits from eating your garden.
baking soda helps with fungal infections, you may have issues from mildew. Try mixing a cup or two of milk with a bucket of water and spray on plants twice a week. Milk not only kills the mildew, it can help with fungal and other infections as well.
Garlic and hot peppers that has been popular for several years to deflect many different types of insects, and even some small animals. To make it you will need:
2 tsp cayenne pepper, 2 cloves garlic or garlic oil, Liquid soap, 1 qt water
Simply grind the pepper and garlic together with the water and a little soap. Strain the mixture and pour it into a spray bottle.
There are indoor devices such as sensors which use electromagnetic interference or ultrasound to drive rats and mice away. They emit a sound inaudible to the human ear but one that is awful to a rodent – the noise will literally drive them away. You plug them into any plug socket and let it get on with it!
LINKS:
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pdf/ec/ec1586.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/factsheets/ipm.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_pest_management
http://www.whatisipm.org/
http://ipm.ifas.ufl.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insecticides
Wear protective gloves, goggles and clothing. When preparing, applying and storing home remedies, it is best to use tools (containers, spray bottles, etc.) reserved for this purpose. Mark all home remedy storage containers clearly and keep them out of reach of children.
Before treating an entire plant, test the mixture on a few leaves and wait 24 to 48 hours to see if there are any signs of phytotoxicity (discolored, stained, wilted, dried or dropping leaves). If so, do not treat the plant.
Avoid treating plants on windy days, in full sun or during a heat wave or dry spell.
These recipes are not selective and may destroy both useful and harmful organisms.
Use extreme caution when preparing, handling, using and storing any pesticides, including home-made ones. Some products can be hazardous even if they are natural.
These are old home remedies from many past folks. No endorsement is intended nor liability assumed since most of these old home remedies are not proven or approved as pest control recommendations. Many of these old home remedies may have an effect on many types of pests.
Use extreme caution when preparing, handling, using and storing any pesticides, including home-made ones. Some products can be hazardous even if they are natural.
Integrated Pest Management
The United Kingdom Legal Position, CODEX
In the United Kingdom, all pesticides are closely regulated – and the legal definition of a pesticide covers just about anything used in pest control, even, strictly speaking, extending to old favourites like soapy water sprays for aphids. Preparations used to protect plants are the responsibility of the Pesticides Safety Directorate, while the Health and Safety Executive control those used for other purposes.
In the United Kingdom, It is now illegal to use any preparation as a garden spray, or treatment, which does not have formal approval for such use, so it is not possible to try out some of the old recipes which have survived, though they remain interesting historically. However, even today the average store cupboard still contains a wealth of ingredients with natural pest control properties.
