Killing Bugs In My Yard Organically?

[oneshot 1]

Yard is infested with mostly Ants and Ticks.

Is there anything Organic I can use or something that works? If Organic won't work I'm not completely tied to it. 

oneshot 

[jdmidwest]

Permethrin.  I spray it around my bee hives for hive beetles, does not affect them.  Clothing makers have been soaking insect proof clothing in it for years and it lasts thru washing for ticks.

http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/PermGen.html

But, if it kills something, It is probably not all good for everything else.

I use granules for ants, different critter.  You need something for them to pack back to the nest to kill them at source.

[Dutch]

Diatomaceous earth is what I use for ants.  It may work for ticks.

[oneshot 1]

13 hours ago, Dutch said:

Diatomaceous earth is what I use for ants.  It may work for ticks.

I have couple pounds of it, yes I know I'll need more. 

I have a push Spreader I'm thinking this will work. 

Oh guess I'm getting Bees.

oneshot 

[T.J. Clarke]

Been using this on our place for 5 years with great success.  Had a HUGE Tick problem.  1 oz per gallon of water.  Deadly on Ticks.  No problem for our Dogs after it dries.  Talstar P

 

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[Hawg]

Pyganic has the best knockdown of the organic pesticides. It’s Pyrethrin made from  chrysanthemum and degrades quickly  and is safe to use on food harvested the next day.

I fog my yard with it.

They also make a version to use on livestock that is the same thing that you can find in the feed store at times.

 

PyGanic Gardening 8oz, Botanical Insecticide Pyrethrin Concentrate for Organic Gardening https://a.co/d/b2ZbPxJ

[jdmidwest]

On 5/11/2023 at 9:49 AM, oneshot 1 said:

I have couple pounds of it, yes I know I'll need more. 

I have a push Spreader I'm thinking this will work. 

Oh guess I'm getting Bees.

oneshot 

Get ready to break out another $1000

[Terrierman]

39 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

Get ready to break out another $1000

Broke!

[oneshot 1]

Yes I'm needing more soil for some Tomato Plants gave to me and what I got is close. 

oneshot 

[tjm]

Permethrin, might be the only remaining legal chemical that actually kills ticks. (Cats too, unfortunatly, until dry). You can get "tick tubes" that are filled with permethrin soaked cotton batting and scatter them where mice will find them and use the cotton for nest material, won't kill the mice it will kill all the baby  ticks the mice are nurturing. The organic that permethrin imitates is the Pyrethrin made from  a single variety  chrysanthemum, that Hawg speaks of, and though pyrethrin kills ticks and doesn't usually harm cats, it does break down pretty rapidly, a couple of days and it's gone.  The permethrin stays in the yard and keeps kill insects for a few weeks. To stay organic go with  @Hawg's recommendation, if not too concerned about the organics, the stuff @jdmidwest uses will last longer. 

Diatomaceous earth will kill ticks if they happen to crawl through it but I think you'd need to dust a uniform coating of it over the whole yard, in my yard that'd take about a dump truck load of it.