DiatomaceousEarth 5 LBS FOOD GRADE Diatomaceous Earth - 100% Organic All Natural Diamateous Powder - Diametaceous for humans is Safe Around Children

I use this to kill aphids and earwigs in my garden. I sprinkle it around the base of a plant and turn over the soil a bit to get down by the roots but without disturbing the roots. It seems to work well, but not perfect. I've had infestations and with this it helps remedy that 80 to 90% which I find a success. I just opened the bag and take a small shovel and sprinkle it around. I don't necessarily wear gloves and I don't wear a mask when I use this. Although it is dusty. This is the second year I've been using this and it definitely helps. I will continue to buy as I need it for my garden.

I'm amazed. Simply amazed.I went to Walgreens one day recently to pick up ant bait to combat the sudden appearance of ants in our kitchen in the past couple months that no amount of cleaning and spraying is stopping. A very friendly man there told me that I might have more luck with DE. Okay, so I innocently tried this product just for the ants first. Let me tell you! Wow! First of all, my kittens live this stuff. Second of all, the morning after I spread this stuff, I found dead millipedes and other things I had no idea were even in my house, but not a single live bug crawling anywhere in my kitchen. it was a sudden improvement, and such a simple solution.I then thought about how much my cats liked it. I wondered if I could use it as a flea treatment of a flea preventative. What I discovered was much better.You see, it just so happens that we had just adopted these two kittens three months earlier and they had brought Gardia home to our poor little terrier. Then one of the kittens refused and continues to accept his medicine despite my years of experience treating the family pets. Then he drinks the dog's water, reinfecting her over and over. The good news is that DE may kill parasites. It was worth a try. I mixed some in the cats' food, since it's food grade. They loved it!! And the best part is that their stools went from completely liquid to firm, solid stools. I then treated the dog. She was a little harder to treat because she has always been extremely fussy about every single bite that passes her lips, but it was easier than giving her the other Garcia treatment, Panacur, and she also *recovered.*I'm simply amazed.So the third and fourth thing? I treated us (my husband and me) and I treated my garden.My husband's Gastroenterologist told him he appears to have a chronic direction in his colon and gave him an antibiotic for it, also telling him to take Probiotics. It didn't fix the problems my poor, dear husband was having, though, and he severe symptoms of a disorder of his colon for years. As for me, I had less severe colon symptoms but I had chronuc, severe gastric problems. On top of that, I had chronic infections. For those reasons, I decided to give us both a small dose of DE every day to see if it would have any positive effect. I was very nervous and started small.At the same time, I sprinkled DE in my pest-ridden garden and took a wait-and-see approach.That was the clincher - these last two experiments. My husband and I apparently had some kind of horrifying worm, the evidence of which has shown up for both of us in our colon output, speaking delicately. We both feel better. Outside, my garden became healthier just as growing season ended, and inside, the dog and the two kittens are thriving. The house is free of ants and other creepy-crawlies, and honestly, I am just amazed. I'm going to keep this stuff on hand.... One thing, you might want to get you a mask because it's pretty dusty. It's not necessary but I felt better with a simple mask. It's easy to handle without breathing dust in but I just felt better having a mask for the sake of being safe. I got one of those cloth masks with the insertable charcoal filter, because if you breathe this stuff in, my understanding is that it can hurt you.

I originally bought this to use in my smoothies as a dietary aid. Then I read how I could use it as a pesticide indoors and out and that is ultimately what I use it for. I have used it in the garden and in the house to get rid of Argentinian ants. I live in Southern California and they have become quite the nuisance. I have had the pest control out 4 times, because what he was using wasn't getting the job done. He said the usual bugs sprays are not as effective on these ants and can increase their activity. Diatamaceous earth on the other hand worked like a charm. I sprinkled it EVERYWHERE to get them under control. It works by clinging to their exoskeletons. They carry the particles back to their nest and the particles kill them by cutting into their skeletons and dehydrating them. They can move around a bit with it on them, long enough to get back to where they came from, but once they go to the nest, they don't come back out. Depending on how much you put out, it could take hours or the better part of a day to see the results, but it does work. It only works dry, so if it gets wet, it won't be effective again until it dries. Since it is rather inexpensive, I used it liberally. It is safe to use around food and pets and plants. The only downside is that the dust doesn't go away, so depending on how much you put down, it could create a mess until you decide to clean it up. TIP: Encircle the ant or nest so that the ants have to cross the path of the dust to ensure that they get some on them. Or you can sprinkle it directly on the ants, or plants. TIP: Don't clean up the suit with your vacuum. It will not be pretty. Clean it up by mopping, or with a wet paper towel.

I was irritated at first because it had taken a cpl weeks and still not here, then a message from Amazon it would another week. I got about 4 days later and they sent 2 bags. Seems to be good quality, my cat stopped itching immediately. I plan to use for other things as well. If the 2nd bag was an accident then let me know ill send the other back. Thank you

If you’re looking for something to kill bugs in your house THIS is the product for you. We recently moved into a house that was semi infested with brown recluse. We tried EVERYTHING. No sprays would work, the exterminator did nothing and costed a pretty penny. One day on tiktok I saw a lady talking about this stuff and saying that it was the only thing that will kill them. We thought “might as well give it a try since nothing else is working”. I sprinkled this along the base of the walls in every room and my husband went into the attic and spread it all over the insulation. We haven’t seen a single spider in months! My husband recently went back up into the attic to prepare for winter and he found HUNDREDS of dead spiders and not a single one crawling. Not only does it kill spiders but it kills beetles, roaches, earwigs, etc. you name it. If it crawls, it’s dead. This stuff is magic. I do some more reading on this stuff and I also find that if your pets have worms, you can put a little in their food (preferably wet) and it’ll rid them of the parasites. (Please talk to your vet before this though). This is the end all fix all. So stop paying out the babooshka for exterminators that hardly do anything and DYI!