Insecticides (lawn)
Introduce beneficial predators to keep pests away
Extremely Green Gardening Company Beneficial Insects
The Extremely Green Gardening Company offers beneficial predators and parasites to combat a wide variety of insect pests, including aphids, caterpillars, grubs, leafminers, mealybugs, Mexican bean beetles, spider mites, thrips, and whiteflies.Gardens Alive!
Gardens Alive! offers beneficial predators to control a variety of insect pests found on crops, lawns, and trees. Beneficials include lady beetles, green lacewings, chrysoperla rufilabris larvae/eggs, trichogramma, and nematodes.
Make your own compost
Compost Guide
Compost Guide carries compost bins, tumblers, pails, thermometers, turning tools, and worm composters.ComposTumbler
Consider this large drum on a raised stand that turns with a crank and heats up to 160°F. It comes in two sizes. The company promises compost in 14 days.Gardens Alive! composting products
Choose from a selection of composting products including a 100 percent recycled plastic compost bin, compost tea kit, compost activator, redworms, and ready-made compost.NatureMill Automatic Composter
Even the city-bound can use this electric composter. The company claims it can be used in the kitchen, has carbon filters to eliminate odor, and costs about 50 cents per month to operate, depending on local electric rates.Plow & Hearth composting products
Put a stylish ceramic or stainless steel compost crock on your kitchen counter, empty it into a Tumbler Composter outside the kitchen door, and you'll have compost in less then a month.Sun Frost Scrap Eater Solar Composter
The Scrap Eater is an attractive garden planter, as well as an efficient composter. The composter uses solar technology and is made from three quarters of a solid oak Bordeaux wine barrel with a clear acrylic plastic dome.
Use nontoxic, natural bug sprays
Bite Blocker
These soybean based products are DEET free, sweat-proof, water-proof, and child-safe.Bugs 'R' Done

Containing pure orange peel oil, this product can be used around food, children, and pets to kill and repel disease-carrying cockroaches, flies, mosquitos, and fire ants.Burt's Bees Herbal Insect Repellent
This DEET-free insect repellent uses rosemary, lemongrass, and citronella oils to keep bugs away.Hot Pepper Wax
This completely biodegradable product repels insects and destroys insects and insect larvae without using harmful chemicals.Kiss My Face Swy Flotter
Swy Flotter is DEET-free and composed of blended botanicals.Natural Insect Shield with Catnip Oil
A pesticide and insecticide free formula that uses catnip oil to repel mosquitoes, black flies, and horse flies.Nature's Herbal Natural Mosquito & Insect Shield
This product uses catnip and rosemary oil to provide protection from mosquitoes and other biting insects.
Not Nice To Bugs
Not Nice To Bugs uses 100 percent all natural safe and nontoxic ingredients to control flying or crawling insects.Nutri Shield Insect Repellent
Nutri Shield uses herbal ingredients rather than DEET, pyrethrins, and permethrins to keep bugs away.Orange Guard
This water-based formula is effective at killing a range of insects and is safe for use around food, humans, and pets.Safe Solutions Enzyme Cleaner
Enzyme Cleaner is composed of ingredients that are nontoxic, food-grade, or GRAS (generally recognized as safe) and are pH-balanced, hypoallergenic, as well as biodegradable.SharpShooter
This all natural, nontoxic insecticide uses lemon extract to kill most common flying and crawling insects.Skeeter Skatter
This citrus scented spray uses citronella, eucalyptus, lavender, catnip, and pennyroyal oils to safely repel insects.
Use nontoxic pest control devices
Ants-No-More
If used with nontoxic bait, the ANTS-NO-MORE Ant Bait Station can provide safe control of ants.Diatomaceous Earth (DE)
Diatomaceous Earth is a naturally occurring siliceous sedimentary mineral which serves as a pesticide.DynaTrap Mosquito Trap
The DynaTrap Mosquito Trap eliminates mosquitoes and other flying insects without the use of chemicals.Flies Be Gone
Using nontoxic bait, this simple device traps flies.Japanese Beetle Trap
This device traps Japanese beetles using floral and pheromone lures.Mosquito Magnet
This device uses CO2 and additional attractants to trap mosquitos.Poison-Free Insect Magnet
This trap uses a pheromone attractant to capture insects.Pro-Ketch Mousetrap
Made from galvanized steel, Pro-Ketch captures mice with or without bait.
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