>Any and all products specifically used for Pesticide use...mUST have a EPA Registration Number....if they do NOT have one...they are NOT Licensed by the EPA and are banned from use.....
Kyle, You're way, way off base here. Dr. Bronner's is not a pesticide. Period. It's not a pesticide. It's soap. Using something to kill bugs does not make something a pesticide and the action of killing bugs has nothing whatsoever to do with federal regulations. You can use beer to kill slugs (so I've heard). Does that make it a federally regulated pesticide? Of course not. If I used a flyswatter to kill a fly would I have to follow federal regulations for its use? If I did nothing to kill bugs, which is what I do (this is a "no-kill" garden), would I have to follow federal regulations in so doing? Bob Nold Denver, Colorado, USA At the risk of sounding daft, I sort of look forward to the aphids. It seems the only plants in my garden that get noticably infested are a few Aguilegia formosa and Asclepias tuberosa. It would appear that there are two different species of Aphid at work here, the normal ones on the Aquilegia and a more robust bright orange one that lives on the Asclepias. When the plants get a good infestation going I harvest the parts and put them in my Poison Dart frog terrariums where they are devoured like it was the last supper. It's a nice change of diet for the frogs after a long winter of fruit flies and springtails. The aphid bounty usually does not last very long before the aphids are discovered by some species of parasitic wasp, the aphid populations rapidly collapses when this occurs, bummer. Jim Hatchett Eagle, Idaho
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