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From: shor@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Melinda Shore)
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Subject: Re: Organic Insect Control
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 21:31:55 EDT
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On a related note, this month's New Age Journal has a brief blurb on
p. 13 about the use of caffeine as both an insect repellant and as an
insecticide.  It's been found to be effective on tobacco hornworms,
mealworms, mosquito larvae, and so on.  Apparently caffeine disrupts
the little critters' nervous systems (no surprise there).  Expensive,
though, since if it's to be effective, the coffee needs to be 5 to 10
times stronger than normal.
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Melinda Shore                               ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!shor
University of Chicago Computation Center    Staff.Melinda%chip@UChicago.Bitnet