Exactly how do you "dust" the cat with diatomaceous earth?
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That flea problem was taken care of by the method that I used in 2013. The Raid spray in the purple can worked wonders on the carpet, and killed every flea and egg there was.
It is now five years later, and I've never had another flea problem.
This message is to those people who eat it or feed it to their pets.
Stop it. You are being dumb. I don't know what possessed you to believe that would work, but it won't. It won't ever touch the fleas. It will remain in your digestive system and come out in your excrement, while the fleas ride on your back and laugh.
The goal is to get this diatomaceous earth, which is actually nothing more than micro-fine chopped glass, onto the body of the insect. You need to sprinkle it with this broken "glass." It will not hurt you because the pieces are so small it does not interfere with humans or pets like cats and dogs. If you or they eat it, it just goes right through the digestive tract and comes out in your poop. That's what happens when you feed it to your pets, too, it just goes in one end and out the other, and never gets to Tue fleas.
It does not melt, break down, or travel through your body to come out on your skin. The only way to kill insects with diatomaceous earth is to get it onto their exoskeletons, their shells. It is impossible to accomplish that by ingesting it. So STOP DOING THAT.
The diatomaceous earth needs to touch them where their shell is thin, and cut their shell. Think of broken glass cutting an astronaut's space suit, and causing the air in the suit to leak out. The astronaut will die. On the insect, it will make small cuts, like at bendy places like their legs, and like the astronaut's air escaping, the water in their body liquids will evaporate through these little cuts.
That is the mechanism by which this very fine sharp chopped glass works.
The lo.G name for the white powder comes from the little shelled animals called diatoms. When they died, millions of years ago, their little glassy sea-shells remained, and in some parts of the sea floor back then, they piled up so much that it became a thick vein of white earth, which was dug out, dried, filtered and put in bags.
These aren't even fossils, they are essentially a thick pile of microscopic sea shells, all broken and sharp, and something hazardous to the moisture-tight integrity of any insect's body armor. The flexing areas at their joints are the most vulnerable places, because that is where their shells, their exoskeletons, are the thinnest.
Just to be clear, research Diatomacious Earth! The food grade is safe for consumption. No one is trying to kill "bugs" with DE. It is effective to ingest for the elimination of worms in both humans and animals. If you prefer, feel free to go to the doctor and pay for prescriptions, and then deal with the side effects. I do agree it is dumb to use just any DE, it must be the food grade, and it must come from a trusted source.
If you use DE to eliminate insect pests, be sure to use food grade DE. Also be very careful and diligent around yourself and pets. It is never okay to breathe any form of DE.
DE is a natural and effective way to eliminate worms. Anyone using food grade DE, please do your research. Don't give yourself or your pets more than recommended.
Just to be clear, research Diatomacious Earth! The food grade is safe for consumption. No one is trying to kill "bugs" with DE. It is effective to ingest for the elimination of worms in both humans and animals. If you prefer, feel free to go to the doctor and pay for prescriptions, and then deal with the side effects. I do agree it is dumb to use just any DE, it must be the food grade, and it must come from a trusted source.
If you use DE to eliminate insect pests, be sure to use food grade DE. Also be very careful and diligent around yourself and pets. It is never okay to breathe any form of DE.
DE is a natural and effective way to eliminate worms. Anyone using food grade DE, please do your research. Don't give yourself or your pets more than recommended.
Do you think this product would be okay to use in the corners of a cat's kennel, to keep out woodlice/earwigs?
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