Snails and slugs can be devastating to your garden. Night time creepy crawlers, they can be hard to detect. Fortunately, there is a simple solution that does not involve dangerous chemicals. It turns out that these gastropods get a real charge out of copper. An electrical charge that is, a deathly electrical charge. And, somehow they know this instinctively and will not cross the copper. How amazing is that? You can use this sticky copper tape and wrap it around almost anything, pots or raised beds, trees and patio furniture, even dog bowls. As the copper is exposed to air it will get a rather nice patina, but this will not affect the effect it has on the snails and slugs.

You think flies and insects are bad today, imagine what it must have been like one hundred years ago. With no real sewers, manure in the streets and ice for refrigeration, folks would do whatever they could to escape the day to day pestilence of flies. In the 1880's, fly paper was almost a necessity of life. But, it didn't last long and was difficult to use. So it was that a druggist and his four sons came up with a better solution to catching flies. They created a sticky substance that didn't dry out and would last until the card didn't have a space for a fly to get stuck on! Now, the Tanglefoot Company makes more than just fly strips. Their products are important in the battle against many of our common flying, and crawling garden pests. These traps use no chemicals and are extremely effective.

Tangle-Trap Whitefly and Aphid Trap Kit

These kits help to rid plants of aphids, whiteflies, leafminer flies, and fungus gnats in large areas such as flower and vegetable gardens or greenhouses. The kit comes with two large (12" x17") trapping surfaces, stakes, and an 8 oz. brush cap container of Tangle-Trap Insect Trap Coating. For your convenience, each trapping surface has already been pre-coated, so there's little assembly or preparation required. You simply peel off the protective cover sheet, place sticky traps in the holder on the stake, and stick them in the soil near your plants.

The formula is clear, odorless and does not contain any insecticides or pesticides. Our trap coating provides excellent adhesion to surfaces and remains tacky through repeated wetting and drying cycles down to a temperature of 38F. The formula will effectively help rid plants, gardens and greenhouses of white flies, adult fungus gnats, thrips, aphids, black vine and pecan weevils, deer and stable flies along with a number of other insects and uses

Bag Wasp Trap

Using a safe and non-toxic attractant this simple bag will lure Yellowjackets and wasps to enter. Once inside they can't get out and die. The Wasp Trap includes one non-toxic trap with hanger and one lure pouch. Simply empty the contents of the lure pouch into the bag, add 15 oz (450 ml) of water. Hang the trap from a tree or stand it on a surface away from the house or patio to avoid attracting wasps to occupied areas.

Mosquito Dunks 2 Pack $5.95
Mosquito Dunks 6 Pack $10.95
Mosquito Dunks 2 Pack with Lily $8.95

Safer 14 ounce Aerosol Flying Insect Killer

This product is not for use on skin or clothing and is toxic to fish. Active ingredients by weight.: D-Limonene 1.000-Percent, Pyrethrins 0.050-Percent, Potassium Salts of Fatty Acids 1.000-Percent. Please use this link to view the Material Safety Data Sheet for this product.

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