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"Organic" insect spray?
Hi everyone?
I?m a lurker here and had a quick question. I?ve got a beetle eating my veggie garden (LOVING my pepper plants and sage plants)?it?s not a Japanese beetle b/c I?ve seen them. Anyway, I went to my local garden center and they sold me this ?organic insecticide? that is made up of mostly canola oil and this stuff called pyrethrins?the woman said it was organic and safe to use on veggies. So I was about to use it yesterday when I decided to look it up first and in my Google reading it doesn?t sound organic to me for some reason?sure pyrethrins are made somehow from chrysanthemums but when the label on the bottle tells me to keep away from water sources it just has me a little nervous?does anyone actually know anything about pyrethrins? Is it really ?organic? or just ?natural? and would you use this stuff on your veggies?
Any other beetle stoppers out there? We have the beetle bags for the Japanese beetles but these are smaller and narrower?brown to black with a skinny white pin stripe and some orangey-red color on them.
Re: "Organic" insect spray?
Is it natural? Yes.
Is it organic? Yes.
Will it kill other things besides beetles? Yes.
Would I use it on food crops? Yes.
Is there a way to kill JUST THESE BUGS and not kill any others? Yes. You could spray soap solution or oil directly ON the bugs, but of course you'd have to be in your garden at all times to do this.