CHAPTER 11 - The Best Control 2

Calcium Hydroxide - can be used as a fungicide.Calcium Sulfate - Plaster of Paris is also a wonderful desiccant dust/caulk. Mix with oatmeal for a bait.Calendula Ointment - is an excellent insect repellent and counterirritant. The ointment contains the dried floretsof the common garden or pot marigold (Calendula officinallis).California Buckeye (Aesculus californica) - CAUTION: Flour made with the meat hulls of nuts is toxic tolarvae and adults of the Mexican bean beetle; parts of plant are toxic to humans.Camphor Oil - is toxic to clothes moths and will repel some pests.Canadian Fleabane or Horseweed (Erigeron canadensis) - Can be ground up to make melonworm and/orJapanese beetle repellent.Candles - mosquitoes and fleas are drawn to the carbon dioxide or light, mosquitoes can be killed by the flameand fleas can be killed by the flame, soapy water or glue boards. Citronella candles and/or oil repel mosquitoes.Canola Oil - Originally called rape seed oil. When used in a water emulsion, it can be used as a dormant andgrowing season spray to kill all stages of mites and insects, including their eggs. It will attract grasshoppers, souse it as a bait. When heated to high temperatures, canola becomes a transfat. See Rape Seed Oil.Cans - Garbage cans, coffee cans, pails and many other containers can be used to trap a wide variety of animalsand/or insects.Canvas or a Sheet - Spread it under stone fruit trees, e.g., cherries and plums. Pound the trunk of the tree ifyou have plum curculio beetles; they will fall on the canvas and “play dead” until you can safely dispose of thosethat fell! This trick also works on the pecan weevil.Capsaicin - Hot peppers are loaded with capsaicin which gives a fiery chemical burn to mammals and kills somesoft-bodied insects and repels many creatures. Capsaicin can be applied topically to treat diaetic neuropathy,psoriasis, muscle pain, fibromyalgia, nerve pain after shingles and arthritis pain.Capsaicinoids - or the oleoresins of capsaicin, the fiery active ingredients of hot peppers, will repel many insectsand/or mammals.Capsicum and Castor Oil - Diluted 1% or less capsicum pepper, 5% castor oil in 94% vegetable oil can besprayed to repel mammals, e.g., rabbits and squirrels. Capsaicin C 18H 27NO 3present in capsicum is a verybitter compound.Carbamates, e.g., NaHCO 3(baking powder) and yeasts when ingested by insects cause CO 2to be releasedin the gut and they die.Carbon Dioxide (CO 2) - will attract ticks, houseflies, mosquitoes, termites, etc. and can also be used as a fumigantin the ground and in traps where it literally “takes their breath away” in seconds. The ants or animals quicklygo to sleep and then painlessly die of asphyxiation. It can also be used to safely fumigate pests in stored food/commodities and/or to kill bagged and sealed creatures, e.g., roaches in food carts, in an environmentally safefashion without the use of any poison. When CO 2is placed in traps, tunnels/runways, mounds, etc., it will quicklykill all living creatures in those underground areas because it is one and a half times heavier than air. As theCO 2moves downward throughout the tunnels, mounds, runways, etc. it also pours into all connecting moundsor tunnels or nests very effectively, very quickly and very safely. Without giving any warning or odor, it replacesthe air, killing the occupants, whether insect or animal, and then slowly dissipates back into the atmosphere tobe used by the plants. CO 2can be used virtually anywhere and is non-toxic to lawns and plants and its pestcontrol results are immediate. The Author believes it is possible to fumigate homes with CO 2by tenting themand “pouring” carbon dioxide in from the top, allowing the regular air to exit from a “chimney”; test the escapingair and once you find enough CO 2, stop “pouring”. This should be used in combination with sodium boratefor residual control. Carbon dioxide could/should replace volatile fumigant poisons in homes and buildings,370