Dollars to doughnuts sez it's Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth. Several insecticidal dust products are actually DE with a chemical thrown in to kill bugs a little faster so you'll think it's necessary to buy the chemical. They don't have to identify the DE since it's basically dirt (to be sure, a special dirt) and they won't tell you what it is if you call them, so you won't get wise to the game and bypass their chemicals. But Capsaicin isn't a bad chemical, of course.
5% Sevin dust is 95% DE; it's darker than plain DE because of the sevin. Bayer Complete Insect Dust is .25% permethrin and 99.75% DE; side by side with plain DE you cannot tell them apart. Except that you got it on sale, you could make your own probably cheaper by ordering Food Grade DE and cayenne powder and mixing the two. Daddybob -----Original Message----- From: Matthew McCann [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 9:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: CS>cayenne pepper concentrate I bought a gardening product at a close-out sale called Hot Pepper Wax Insect Repellant. The active ingredient is Capsaicin (3%) and the inert ingredient is 97% but unidentified. The capsaicin is made from hot cayenne peppers. It is intended for use on fruit, vegetables and ornamentals against insect attack. Does anybody know more about this product, especially what its inert ingredient is? Thanks in advance for your input.
