THE
HOMEMADE NASQUECIDE
MIRACLE


DISCLAIMER
This is NOT for termites.  If your problem is with termites then seek a professional.

CONTENTS
  1. DO-IT-YOURSELF PEST EXTERMINATION - EASIER and MORE EFFECTIVE?!
  2. Easier than hiring a Pro?
  3. More Effective than a Pro?
  4. Recipe and Instructions
  5. When you should NOT use it
  6. What else should you do, or not do?
  7. ALTRUISM, SETTING THINGS RIGHT,and the  SOCIAL ENGINEER IN ME



DIY PEST EXTERMINATION is TONS EASIER and MORE EFFECTIVE than PEST CONTROL?!
Yeah, we all know it's probably cheaper if done right (in fact it's TONS cheaper if you use my recipe for "Nasquecide" below), BUT IT'S ALSO EASIER AND MORE EFFECTIVE.  You've heard the horror stories about do-it-yourself being much more difficult, costing more, and not working very well ... that's how they make their money and stay in business: fear-mongering and SPREADING INEFFECTIVE Do-It-Yourself treatments themselves to fuel the stories.  As long as there are sufficient quantities of both (1-fear mongering, and 2-bad do-it-yourself recommendations) they'll be in business.  Well, I'm here to change all that.

HOW IS IT  EASIER?
EASE is the Pest Controller's #1 selling point - fortified with horror stories of ineffective, exhaustive, and ultimately much more costly do-it-yourselfers, and sadly those stories are true - BUT ONLY because they're the ones behind promoting either expensive or ineffective do-it-yourself treatments.  Most of the do-it-yourself websites are promoted by pest control companies ... do you really think they're an unbiased resource?  What's easier for you: Working for 20 extra hours or working for 30 extra minutes?  With Pest Control you'll  work at least an extra 20 hours/year to pay for their $360/yr services ... or you can just work a measly extra 20 minutes/year to make the  $5 for supplies and spend 10 minutes following my instructions below and achieve far superior results ... while using a safe natural product that you make yourself (Nasquecide), and do this only once every few years?  Hmm?  Which is easier?  That doesn't even take into account the time and hassle to schedule a visit, wait around while they show up, clutter your fridge with their ugly magnet showing a nasty bug and their phone number in the event of an insect explosion, give them permission to periodically walk around your house with or without you there.

SO HOW IS IT MORE EFFECTIVE?
"Pest Control" is exactly that: "control".  Gone are the days of the "pest exterminators" ... they're all about "controlling" now.  Often, they'll even refuse to treat an infestation unless you sign up for at least a 1 year or preferably multi-year contract (telling you this AFTER they show up which already obligates you to pay for the visit) because as they say ... "the little buggers will keep coming back".  Well of course they will ... they use these high-tech bait traps that are designed to meter out a minimal amount of poison ... just enough to keep them at bay but still alive in your house, and must be replaced from time to time.  Nasquecide however is so cheap and easy to make at home, and so much more effective killing all the insects and all indoor nests, you can keep little piles of the super cheap and safe stuff in strategic places to always keep them at bay.

WHAT IS NASQUECIDE, & HOW DO YOU MAKE IT?
Nasquecide is an acronym for: NAtural, Safe, QUick, Easy, Cheap, Insect-Discriminating Exterminator
It's extremely tasty and poisonous to all non-termite insects (ants, cockroaches, carpenter ants) and effective even against the worst infestations (again, does NOT eliminate termites though -  see above).

RECIPE FOR NASQUECIDE (NAtural, Safe, QUick, Easy, Cheap, Insect-Discriminating Exterminator):
 - 1.5 part sugar (for sweet-loving ants) - use powder when "dusting", use granular for "piles" (see INSTRUCTIONS below)
 - 1.5 part powdery Parmesan from the green Kraft shaker (for protein-loving carpenter ants, cockroaches, etc), powdered milk works too.
 - 1 part boric acid powder (natural & powerful insect-discriminating poison, i.e. relatively harmless to infants/pets), also known as roach powder.  Borax (boric acid buffered with sodium) will work instead although may take longer.

INSTRUCTIONS: Dust wherever seen (using a dry paintbrush) and also strategically place many dozens of nickel-sized piles, replenishing as needed - making larger piles where they disappear fastest.  When piles stop disappearing (up to 1 week for deep infestations) your house will be pest-free.  NOTE: repellents will sabotage this strategy - you should invite the pests from your walls to partake of your tasty Nasquecide.)
   



WHEN SHOULD YOU NOT USE IT?
You should not use it if your ants are being beneficial by keeping termites at bay.  If you only see maybe 1 ant every month and you have a history of termites, or you live in a wet/damp region where termites are a problem, those black ants may be keeping the termites at bay.  They are natural enemies ... and if you have to choose between the two keep in mind that ants are beneficial, unless they're really big carpenter ants.

WHAT ELSE SHOULD YOU DO AND NOT DO?
Of course, removing dead organic materials from the outside of the house or ground-touching door-jambs is obvious.  Avoid wood mulch like the plague.  But plugging EVERY hole around the house though is a scare tactic used to leverage more money from you ... bugs can get in there is no way you can permanently plug every tiny crack as your house expands and shrinks from heat - especially metal soffits with wooden interiors.  Make sure no water gets in, and if you live in a very damp area you might get a professional to spray with wood underneath, but otherwise don't worry: with rare exceptions insects have NO interest in burrowing through clean dry wood that has never been exposed to water.

WHY AM I DOING THIS WEB PAGE?
ALTRUISM:
I see people all around me suffering from infestations not knowing what to do and having to spend their hard earned money that should go toward family vacations.

THE SOCIAL ENGINEER IN ME:
I believe that if all people engaged themselves doing what was most efficient then everyone would be well employed doing the best they could do in all aspects of life.  Pest Controllers should become Pest Exterminators, and an adequate market should exist for them without having to take advantage of consumers by allowing or worse: promoting misinformation, or by drowning out great recommendations with far less effective and more difficult do-it-yourself recommendations on their own websites.

SETTING THINGS RIGHT:  
Right after we bought our current house 9 years ago an exterminator automatically showed up to "take care" of our house, and billed us $40 for the visit.  We never saw them, we never met them, but somehow they got our name and said we were liable for the service they performed via a contract the former occupant made with them, and even threatened to send collections after us.  Of course we sent them packing but here's the kicker: a year later we had termites in the corner of our house ... they were eating through the drywall into the kitchen.  We called a pest controller our neighbors recommended and they took care of it, but I noticed some suspicious before he came over that I asked him about ... a weathered piece of wood nailed to our foundation, connecting the ground to that corner of the house.  There was nothing else around it, no reason for it to be there, nothing structural ... very bizarre ... it was as if someone had expressly put it there to infest our house with termites ... what's more the nail was rust free, the wood weathered ... wha?

What's more, when I showed the Pest Control guy he said exactly what I was thinking: "If I didn't know better I'd think that was put there expressly to give you the infestation you currently have."

But wait ... it gets worse: after he left (and after I refused his periodic services, although later he said he needed the plastic bait station back and would charge us like $90 if we didn't let him come get the $1 piece of plastic it was made from) I learned that our neighbors used the same company the prior owners of our house had (the one's who tried to charge us for the pre-existing contract).  As it turned out the guy that came to our house to treat the infestation had bought the business just months before from the company that tried to screw us over.

In other words, we were paying him to treat the infestation that he prior owners of his company intentionally caused either out of revenge, or greed, thinking I was foolish enough not to notice or know that nailing a termite infested piece of wood between the ground and wooden frame our our house would insure a long and financially rewarding relationship for them.  But how can I prove anything without catching them in the act of nailing that thing to our house when we weren't home?

Now I'll be the first to admit that most Pest Controllers aren't devious like this and in fact I tend to believe the best in people.  Most Pest Controllers, in fact, have been programmed to know only about less effective formulas (one even recommended engorging them to death on Gatorade), and have blissfully never heard of using a formula like Nasquecide, being victims them self (or rather beneficiaries really, when you think about it, the consumer is the victim) of the ignorance and misinformation promoted by the large corporation and industrial networks intended to enrich one another.  All industries do this ... don't even get me started with the medical or dental industry - it's practitioners being the best people in the world, and woefully ignorant of the ugly truth behind why their profession is so profitable.  So okay, now you probably think I'm a crackpot with that last sentence ... but regardless don't be so foolish as to let that keep you from trying Nasquecide.