What’s Your Go-To Organic Pest Control Method? 🐛✨

[flowerbug]

the solitary type of ground bees the most aggressive are the males and they will attack you repeatedly even if their stings are not as bad as many of the other bees, they make up for that in how persistent they are. once you are scent marked they do keep repeatedly attacking that location. i have had my purple crocs nailed many times by some other bees that were nesting in the shed before i got the walls enclosed. i left (and it was the left one ) it out there until they finally decided it was dead and stopped stinging it.

 

[SPedigrees]

I am terrified of wasps and hornets, and I have a wonderful service that uses cedar and other oils to kill nests and protect against rebuilding, since these pests dislike the smell and feel of these oils. They come once a month in summer and fall months, and this has been wonderfully effective. I can sit out on my front porch without being under attack.

On the other hand, I try to coexist with bees unless they attempt to make my home theirs, but fortunately this only happened once long ago when bumblebees set up housekeeping under my porch.

Also I've luckily never had an underground nest that I know of. Yellowjacket wasps are famous for building subterranean dwellings, and these nasty critters have no sense of humor.

As far as protecting gardens from critter damage, deer netting has helped. Insect pests I just live with, having tried all sorts of remedies that never proved successful.