How to Find Organic Pest Control

When you are looking for organic pest control for your garden, you want to focus on the bugs themselves that are eating your precious plants and foliage. Tailor the poison to the insect, but do it in an organic way that leaves little secondary negative impact to your plants.

Insects are actually beneficial to humans, as they produce honey, silk and wax. But they can occasionally get out of hand, which necessitates finding some effective pest control methods to curtail their number. If you are looking to stay away from potentially harmful chemicals and use only organic pest control methods, then here are a few things to keep in mind.

• Focus on introducing beneficial plants into your garden. These plants attract beneficial bugs which will help keep the population of deleterious insects under control. Certain plants, like basil, celery and chervil, act as attractors to beneficial bugs who like to eat the bad bugs. In addition to eating bugs, they help pollinate your plants and help them grow.


• Try trapping insects. To trap insects in an organic manner, you will probably use something natural to entice the bugs into your trap. A trap consists of both the lure and the trap, and the lure itself has to be something that your particular pest is attracted to. The most important aspects of a lure are its color and its odor. An example of a trap is clove water and a light bulb. The light acts as a lure, and the well-positioned basin of clove water is the actual trap to drown the moths.