Show of Hands

*Outside perimeter: D.E. & Boric acid. Citronella plants repel mosquitoes. *Lawn ants: spread corn meal. *Hang urinal cakes or mix of kitty litter & crushed moth balls in crawl space repels snakes. A Bat House is the best & bats won't bother you.

Add water half way up and place the jars around the house. Roaches love used coffee grounds. They get in and drown.

Also, lavender oil works wonders at keeping bugs,especially Mosquitos, away from you and it also helps alleviate the discomfort and itch of most bug bites. And dried lavendar in those little bags around your house and in window sills will keep away most bugs

I will have to try lavender oil for myself. Not sure we could use lavender in our bedroom though. It makes my husband sneeze and itch like crazy.

Also the powder can be used where mice may walk. The mouse will get the powder on their feet, groom themselves, and die.

I know we have spiders, and I think the other ones I keep seeing are silverfish, but I really am not positive.

Vinegar spray can serve as an organic pest control to get rid of spiders. It has acetic acid which kills them and lots of other bugs :)

Also many scented natural oils like eucalyptus oil, peppermint oil, tea tree oil, neem oil and rose oil kill spiders and some other bugs :)

Spiders (& many other bugs) hate peppermint oil. Mix some with some water in a spray bottle & spray your bed & pillows each time you change the sheets.

I'll try that....thanks :)

Will definitely be trying peppermint oil. That sounds pretty safe for my 2-year-old.

Based on my amateur Google research, it looks like we have spiders and silverfish. I have found a beetle or two as well. Pretty sure we have a crack around a door or something because last summer, we were inundated with crickets.

There ARE some flies on the wall, and they need to go too. They're not near as endearing as I am. :P

Problem solved

Unfortunately, I live in an apartment, so no chickens for us. :(

Anteaters?

I'll have to check with my landlord. ;)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarracenia

As for repellant, when I used to live in the basement at home I always used to get tons of bugs in my room. I started using Raid regularly as a preventive measure. About once a month I would just spray the the perimeter of my room. I was very

successful doing this, and the bugs only came back once I left for college and my parents neglected to keep up on the monthly sprayings.

*spray the perimeter where the carpet meets the wall.

That is a pretty good idea that I never would have thought of. (The sarracenia, not the Raid. I'm pretty worried about Raiding my house up since I have a small child.) But how do they catch anything other than flying insects? Don't the bugs have to

Make their way to the top of the plant?

The bugs crawl inside just like you think they would. Once inside, they can't climb back out and drown in the "water" (it's actually a compound produced by the plant mixed with water to break down the bugs to absorb their nitrogen.