Leaf and scale lice fight with Ballistol
Every year, my oleander bristles with aphids and their cousins, the scale insects. Against the aphids often help their enemies such. Earwigs. A good way to attract these animals is the well-known, with wood wool or straw stuffed and turned over flower pot. It is best to hang it near the infected plant.
With the scale insects, the ear pinchers apparently but not so easily finished. So other help has to come from. Poison spraying prohibits itself, if only because of the pond and my dogs and cats. After all, I had partial success with alcohol and soft soap, but I have not got rid of the beasts for a long time.
Until I was out of sheer frustration, the Ballistol out of the closet and diluted with water: An EL Ballistol to nine tablespoons of water. The whole filled in a spray bottle and sprayed on the scale insects. A few days later, the scale insects were blown away! The Ballistol has not harmed the plants and the ear-wrasse live as in the land of plenty of caterpillars and aphids on the nasturtium.
