Non Toxic Suggestions:
Baking Soda: 1/2 cup soda with 1/2 cup detergent will make it effective.
*Mix with water to form a paste to use as a poultice, spot, scrub or tar remover
*Car wash solution: 1/4 cup liquid soap, 1/4 cup soda in a gallon of water.
Hydrogen peroxide: takes blood stains out of most materials. Dab a little on and wash.
White vinegar: soak in a solution on stickers to remove them.
*Spray on glass, mirrors and
windshields to clean, this will also help keep them defrosted.
*1 cup baking soda into drain then add 1 cup vinegar to clean, de-clog and refresh stubborn drains
Deodorizers:
Baking soda: 1 cup with
cat litter, no smell (keep documents form being stolen, pour used cat litter on top of torn up mail.. No one ewill be able to read or reuse them).
*Carpet: sprinkle on before
vacuuming, cleans and freshens
*If fido has a run in with a skunk bathe in a tub, with 1 box soda, 1 cup lemon juice and a squeeze of regular shampoo...
Insecticides:
*Baking soda: sprinkle on area to kill or repel ants, silver fish, snails, slugs and roaches.*Give a small bit of Beer to Slugs and Snails they will 'passaway happy...
*White vinegar: Kills ants, dandelions, repels flies!
fill spray bottle with white vinegar and spray directly on surface.
*Flies? Mix 1 cup sugar and 1 cup vinegar together in a plastic milk jug, add some cut up banana and hang up on treee.
*Sudsy soap and water in a spray bottle works great on ants.
Spinkle Cornmeal for ant control.
Put Moth Balls in Nylon or sock tip and put where they are for Gopher Mice Rat control (work in RV's great).
See our 'Hazardz' page for more...
This World 'BEE' worried...
October 2006, reports of drone bees not returning to the hive, thus killing the colony. This problem is getting worse: in America, Canada, and Europe, reports of lost worker bees have disrupted the growth cycle pattern of crops. Congress has had hearings on 'Colony Collapse Disorder' or 'Bee Syndrome' and knows this is causing a major problem for the 15 billion dollar a year ‘service’ that these honey Bees provide.
The hives affected by this exotic collapse are the European bee in 'migratory hives': that are transported by truck for pollination services to farms and orchards (some cross state lines). More perplexing, boxes are left whole. Food and pollen normally would be removed and used by other bees, beetles or moths.
Theories abound: from cell phone interference, transport vibration or fumes, parasitic mites (or chemicals used to kill them), pesticides, stress, a fungus, a virus, a new found 'Israeli virus', or could it be the mysterious 'disappearance disease' as in the1930s and 1970s? Curious still: Bumble, Wild bees and other ‘bee’ types are not affected.
The cause is still not known and they may vary. Bee keepers, congress, scientists, scholars and others are desperately searching for the cause that wipes out the entire hive.
Help may come from new bees being introduced into existing hives, drugs to boostimmunity, stopping pesticide use and adding natural land ‘buffers’ for affected hives. What ever the solution is this mysterious syndrome, affects us all,! 2011 update, some colonies in the Americas have slighty recovered but the crisis continues. As of 2015 still in limbo!Some citiies are making rooftop gardens for BEE Highways! check out www.bybi.com
YOU CAN HELP!
*Do Not litter *RECYCLE & REUSE
*Look for organic solutions to everyday needs.
What Can You do? Help protect Mother earth- Educate, Reuse Recycle, Respect and USE only what you need. #1 suggestion use a Non toxic substtution or cut down use of any chemical or pesticide Help birds by provideing nesting sites (birdhouses, drilled wooden boards, masonary blocks). Be Kind to All!
"What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirt. For whatever happens to the Beasts, shall soon happen to Man. ALL things are connectted."
Cheif Seattle, Suquamish Indian Tribe.
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