This Organic Pest Control Remedy Is A SCAM! 3 Natural Insecticides That WORK And One That DOESN'T!

Neem Oil isn't meant to be a contact killer. It's for preventing the reproduction and growth of insects. My go to is a combo of dish soap and neem oil. I used this to get my asparagus beetles under control by spraying down the foliage and soaking the soil. One application and I haven't seen any asparagus beetle damage in almost a month.

Hey MG, Mark from Charlotte. As a honeybee keeper, I’ve learned enough about bugs to be dangerous. Just a couple thoughts. Bugs breath through a networks or tubes that exit from the body in rows on each side of the abdomen, called spiracles. Bugs can last quite a while floating in water due to its high surface tension. But add a surface tension reducer, like soap or others like alcohol, the water can then enter the spiracles effectively drowning them . So while I’m not positive, the soap is not a contact killer, it simply provides a low surface fluid to be sucked into the spiracles to drown them. The neem oil in your experiment appears clearly to not be a contact killer, but being oil based increases surface tension preventing the solution from entering the spiracles, so instead of drowning they eventually suffocate. My only concern with soap, which I have investigated in killing moss, is certain concentrations act to dehydrate the plant, folks have said be careful not to kill the grass while trying to kill the moss, but I have not experimented. Since you love experimenting, I would love to see you try a few concentrations of soap, sprayed on plants, to see if you have a negative effect on the leaves. Good job!

Mom has been using dish soap spray to keep our house plants bug free for a decade now. Its a miracle pesticide. Smells nice too!

I 100%agree with Mark from Charlotte. You need to use all natural soaps like Dr. Bronner's Pure Castile Soap. Cheap soap is a detergent that will suffocate your leaves where as pure castile will not. Check into this product I think you will be pleas3ed with the readings.

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Neem oil is a great tool against worms caterpillars etc. It's not a contact killer it's an ingestion killer and it works quite well especially on brassicas

Neem can be used as a soil drench. I tried it for cucumber beetles, and it worked. 1 gallon of water 2 tbsp of neem oil and a teaspoon of Castile soap mixed very well. I poured it underneath the cucumber plants which had been watered previously. The Beetle population dropped drastically after about a week. Apparently when they eat the leaves they stop feeding because of the neem oil.

I'm watching this GREAT VIDEO again, as I'm having a spider mite outbreak on indoor plants. THANK YOU for conducting this experiment! At the release of the video in June, I put your info to good use on squash bugs!

Hello, I enjoy most of your videos. Your conclusion on Neem Oil is incorrect. Neem Oil is not meant to be a contact pesticide. The insect has to ingest the active ingredient. It disrupts the hunger cycles and reproduction. You won't actually see results instantly, it takes 2 or 3 weeks to see it work. I can provide you with plenty of scientific data or you can simply contact any agriculture extension office and they would be more than happy to provide the information. As for results that are immediate, Neem Oil will not provide it, you are correct on that front. I do like most of your videos, so keep up the good job.

Neem oil is best used as a preventative. When the cool rainy season starts for us, I mix the neem in a 2-gallon sprayer and give the plants a coating. Before I used neem, I lost whole crops of pie pumpkins to powdery mildew. Neem has also been good at treating aphids on my pepper plants. I've never had a problem with horrendous smell and I'm spraying inside a 72'x30' high tunnel, on a ladder, over and under trellised winter squash.

I really enjoyed this video. I live in central Florida so my climate is a bit different and I cant follow all your advice. BUT.....your pesticide and fertilizer videos are 100 percent the BEST on YT. Thank you from Daytona Beach, Fl.

Fantastic. First time viewer - an EASY subscribe, like, notifications on and a note for the algorithm that sent me. I've used Neem for years - - less and less impressed with it as I learn more. This made it quite evident - - there are much better things! Nice job on this! I'll be back for more!

Actual testing, now that is the way to know for sure what works and what does not. Thank you!

Thank You! I've been fighting those leaf-footed bugs and their nymphs for months with neem oil and losing the battle. I will definitely try the dish soap immediately. Have you tried using castille soap? Again, thank you.

fantastic video, man! Im going to go try the soap in my garden plot now. I used Neem on aphids when i was in Florida and it only works when you put the plant inside and isolate it from getting bugs again, which explains why you have to spray the neem so many times before it actually helps. Thank you for your work!

I love your videos. You have a lot of enthusiasm and share valuable information. I hear your struggles being a new gardener in Chapel Hill between pests, humidity and heat. I found your channel looking to see if I could obtain information such as this for my area! I have learned so much!!! Thank you !!!

This is by far the best gardening video I've watched. Dish soap! Who knew? So satisfying to hear the plop as the bugs that decimated my zuchini and melons fell to the ground dead. Thank you!

Hi, I enjoyed this video. However, you only cover killing bugs. Deterrence is also important. I think the product that was least effective at killing will be the most effective at deterrence - neem oil. I recently saw an Indian remedy on YouTube which you might find interesting. One litre of water + two teaspoons of sodium bicarbonate + one teaspoon of neem oil + ten drops of soap. If neem oil deters you and I maybe it will bugs !

A very useful and practical approach to pest control in the gardens. I am from the RTP area and pretty much the same bugs during this time of the year. After having tried the usual assortment of methods, found the lure traps to be the most effective for both Japanese beetles and stink bugs that show up in droves and pretty much decimate the entire garden if left unchecked. I still use soapy water spray but that only works with direct contact with the bugs. Like someone else mentioned, I also have noticed that the soap eventually also clogs the pores of the leaves, and depending on the type of plant and the concentrations they yellow out and fall off. I am trying to attract the songbirds like bluebirds, chickadees, and other eastern insect-eating birds with bird-feeders and a water fountain in my environment to have multiple solutions to the bug problems. It is rather very difficult to keep all those pesky critters from free lunch in our gardens😫😫

Comparing two different things when you compare neem oil that repels pests and spraying something that kills on contact. I tried to dish soap on my zucchini and the melon worms ate the leaves like they were going to the chair. Neem oil lasts about a week if it doesn't rain hard and 3 to 4 days even with the rain and haven't ever seen a melon worm on my zucchini nor my pumpkin since I started using it. And when you spray that much dish detergent and the bugs are covered with it they're just getting smothered. The neem oil prevents the moth from laying the eggs and the larvae or worms from eating the leaves on the plant. And the smell of the neem oil is the reason the moths don't like it.