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Detergents break the surface tension of the water, surface tension is what keeps water striders on the surface, allows some spiders to take tiny bubbles below the surface so they can stay submerged for a short time, it causes hard water to form droplets, allows water to ‘bead up’ on some fabrics, and is what causes water to just flow right off your lawn instead of ‘soaking in’ or penetrating the soil. It is also what prevents water from entering the tiny pores, called spiracles that many invertebrates breathe through, It doesn’t CLOG anything, it just makes it easier for water to enter the spiracles, and drown the insect. Consequently this will also work on aphids or grasshoppers.
Here in PA we often get those small ants that climb over all the counters, they come by the thousands. We put it on the counter top with no water. We spread it but we don't get it up. Ants are gone. BUT, it is so bad this year, we called Terminex.
The soap breaks the surface tension of the water and the "bugs" drown because the water flows onto the breathing pores in their exoskeleton. Like the content creator said, the soap (surfactant) and water also sticks to their wings and they can't fly either. DAWN+WATER = DOOM to wasps, carpenter bees and many other pests with exoskeletons. 🙂 After you are done with the BUGS, add TABLE SALT (1/4 to 1/3 cup per gallon) and mix well to kill weeds after you are done with the BUGS! Be careful to only spray the unwanted plant because it will kill your grass that it lands on.🙂🙂
Make it with a gallon of vinegar, a cup of salt, and a good squeeze(2-3 ounces) of Dawn dishwashing liquid and you got yourself a great non-toxic weed killer!
The soap is a surfactant. A chemical that breaks the surface tension of the water. The bees and other bugs breathe through small holes on their bodies. Normally, because of surface tension, the water will not enter these holes (bugs don't drown in rain). The soapy water CAN enter the holes and drowns the bugs. You can use as much soap as you want, but you really only need a teaspoon maybe tablespoon of soap. I used this same solution to apply vinyl decals/signs/letters to glass. Spray plain water on glass and it beads. Spray this solution on glass and it "sheens". The vinyl can be floated into position.
I used this dish soap this year and it killed anything I sprayed it with I mean anything . There was just one drawback all the leaves on the plant that I spread started to dry out and die! Now I was spraying a few times a week but yes the leaves just started dying over time! That was Cherry trees and raspberry bushes and the garden plants! Maybe after spraying take fresh water and wash the soap. I will try that next year!
You can also take a gallon of white vinegar and dissolve 1 cup of canning salt in it and add a half cup of the dish soap. Man does it ever kill weeds!!!!! Works WAY BETTER than circle up whitch is carcinogenic (causes cancer) and it is not bad for animals either. Super cheap and effective weed control. It will kill grass too so don't use it on the lawn. It will still kill wasps too and the vinegar keeps the soap from sudsing up. The soap is a surfactant so the plants absorb vinegar and salt and DIE.
thanks for the hack but be honest neglect those nest and after a number of years they will grow to the size of an average adult in height, so get them early get them fast wishing you and yours many blessing from God. (ps went camping with friends, found abandon farm in the barn the biggest hornet nest i ever saw we left immediately and put distance between us and it the sound it made was dreadfully ominous and loud. it sent shivers from the top of the head to the toes. That experience still haunt me every time i think of it)
Yeah, they can get big. We had one in the back corner of our barn once that was the size of a basketball. You could hear the buzz from it. Luckily this works very well and we put like 2 gallons of soap and water to kill it all. I used a much higher flow sprayer to put out a lot of spray quickly. They dropped for probably 5 straight minutes.
I wish he would have used a kitchen measuring cup for the "Dawn" and poured it into a 1 gal. discarded plastic bottle and show the water being added to a typical fill line even though the ratio isn't critical ! It would just simplify the mix !
Dish soap is an old trick used by carpenters too for putting nails into wood without bending them. It makes it like putting your finger into water, theres very little resistance when nailing.
@@SeidelRanch yea my former neighbor was an old timer from Nebraska who made most of his own furniture and swore by dish soap on nails. He said it also helped prevent splitting when nailing trim work. He worked in the koke ovens at the local steel mill and relined the furnaces with pumace bricks. He made all kinds of brick shaping tools out of wood with soda bottle caps as cutting blades.
OUTSTANDING! I get a lot of wasps in the summer here in OK and I have never been happy with the use of pesticides and the risk of stings (I am mildly allergic but my grandkids are Highly allergic). This opens up a whole new treatment of wasps and not only in the barns, but around the eves near the vegetable garden and the house. Thanks so much for this presentation. 😄😁😊🤩
