Organic Pest Control Testimonials

Sieglinde from Gulfport

I have used Diatomaceous Earth from this company in the past, and just reordered some today. My testimony is for the control of fleas and other insects in the yard, house (carpets) and porches. While this seems to be the main reason people use it overall, I can't say enough about it, as I have tried soaps, hydrogen peroxide, essential oils, vegetable based garden oils, diluted bug spray, you name it, and nothing takes away the flea problem like Diatomaceous earth. I have 16 cats, and a big yard with grass and trees and DE has kept them bug free. As I live in Florida, aka "bug country" this is no small challenge. My cats are relaxed, never scratching and I tell everyone I know. I have also shopped for price, and this company seems to be the most reasonable.

Sieglinde from Gulfport

Bed Bugs are GONE!!

Bed Bugs GONE!!! Thank heavens! The first time I saw a bed bug, my son had slept over at a friend's house and when he came home, he threw his overnight bag in front of my washing machine as I was throwing in a load. I took some of his clothes out of the bag and a bug fell out onto the floor of our laundry room. I thought it was a tick. I squashed it and didn't think any more about it. A couple of weeks later, he started to itch every time he was in bed. I thought maybe he was allergic to the detergent I was using so I switched. I started using a dye free, fragrance free detergent. It only got worse. I started noticing the bumps on his skin and because we have 2 cats, I thought maybe we may had fleas. I then went out and got Frontline Plus for the cats and I got some flea bombs for the house. Still even more bumps and now my other children, in an adjacent room started to get the same bites. My cousin was visiting one day, and she had a bedbug infestation in the past. She was laying on my son's bed and she saw a bedbug! I lost it!! I'm not a dirty person and keep a very clean and organized home!! She showed me the bug and it hit me!! It was a bedbug that fell onto the laundry room floor that day!! Light bulb moment!! I knew where they came from. I called my son's friend's house and talked to his mother who told me that she is losing her mind trying EVERYTHING to get rid of them but nothing has worked! I immediately went online and saw that Diatomaceous earth was a good way to get rid of them. I went to the hardware store and got some DE from there but it was not food grade and it had other pesticides mixed in as well but I needed to do something TODAY!! I ordered a 10 pound bag and it was on its way but I could NOT wait for it to come and just feed my kids to the bugs in the meantime. I put it EVERYWHERE! used a make up brush to work it in to the rugs and small cracks and crevices. I took all light switch and socket covers off and used a straw to blow the DE into the walls. It didn't seem to work well at all. I even conducted experiments to see if it killed them at all. I put 3-4 bedbugs in a plastic cup and put some DE In the cup w them. It took several days for them to die. Finally the food grade DE from EARTHWORKS arrived. Because it was safer for my children, I didnt have to be afraid that they would put it in their mouths. I just had to make sure that they were not breathing it in. I vacuumed up the old DE and repeated putting the EARTHWORKS DE in the walls, aliong all the walls where they meet the floor, dusted around the one bed that I kept, dusted the mattress, box spring, rugs, sofas, furniture, cracks, crevices, closets, stairs, & attic. In about a week they were totally gone!! It's been about 6 weeks since I've seen a bedbug. I do still keep putting the dust down weekly after vacuuming to prevent the little vampires from coming back fFrom what I understand, they can go dormant for about 18 months w out a meal. I think even after THAT, I will still use the DE to protect my home from getting re-infested. I was sooo worried that it was going to cost me thousands to get rid of them. All I needed was EARTHWORKS!! Don't get it from anywhere else because EARTHWORKS is the best!!! It's also the least expensive, believe it or not. It also works on fleas, beetles, cockroaches, ants, & any other insect with an exoskeleton. (A hard shell on the outside of their body). So in a nutshell, if you suspect you have bedbugs, order from EARTHWORKS!! It really works!

Bed Bugs Gone!!

Hello Earth Works Health, I am writing you to tell you about my experiences with bedbugs, roaches, and DE, in hopes that it will help others, along with making your business more prosperous. My name is Chris, my families name is Sianis. Presently I am staying in an apartment bldg and for the last 5+ years, I have taken care of a disabled woman, Theresa M. Within the last 2-3 years we have had a bad roach infestation in the kitchen, and the bathroom, along with a few straggler's in area's of the apt. I have tried boric acid, Harris Roach pills, both with very limited success. More on this later.. About a month ago, I noticed the first bedbug on my bed while I was changing my sheets. Theresa noticed her first bed bug on her bed about this time as well. Upon waking many mornings I'd notice the little b@stard$ crawling around on my bed, along with multiple blood stains on my pillow and other various places on my bed. It got to the point that I had to wear a hooded wind breaker to bed along with long john's and long thick socks, and we're talking early May in warm Omaha Nebraska! It wasn't pleasant! While I would wear these clothes to bed I had one occasion that I woke in early morning and I had dried blood at the corner of my mouth, along with a huge blood stain on my pillow! About this time, Theresa started being invaded in her sleep as well, that is when Theresa and I decided to go online looking for a remedy. Theresa came across a variety of things and one was your DE product on Amazon, along with the testimonials about it's use on bedbugs. After telling her of my horrors in bed involving the little b@stard$, she immediately ordered the 10 lb bag of DE! The product came within 2 days, but not before our most horrifying experience! It happened early on a friday morning. I awoke around 4am in fear of being eaten alive...again. I awoke to find a handful of bedbugs on my bed. I then went into the living room with a sheet to cover me as I tried to go back to sleep on a recliner. I figured I was safe. I was wrong. Around 5am Theresa turned her light on to find that she was being eaten alive by bedbugs! I immediately stripped the sheet off of her bed to discover the horror of (at least) 20-30 bedbugs crawling all over her mattress! I then decided to check the top of the sheet that I used to cover my recliner. It was covered in 10-20 bedbugs! I immediately rolled the sheet into a ball, threw it into a huge pot, covered it with water and proceeded to put it on the stove to boil (and kill) the bedbugs. Mind you, this horror went on from 4am-6am on a friday morning! Neither of us felt safe to sleep in our own beds. Theresa refused to go back to her bed and instead went to her PC. She noticed the order for the DE was coming from Fremont, Nebraska (about 100 miles away from Omaha,) so she decided to wait up and see fedex at the door. Around 10am fedex delivered OUR SAVING GRACE-- 10lbs of DE! Our solution: First, both of us enclosed our queen sized mattress, and box springs in their own respective king sized zippered plastic mattress covers, since bedbugs live in mattresses and box springs. This prevented them from getting out as well as suffocating them. We did the same with our pillows using zippered plastic pillow protectors. I then put DE in a small strainer and sifted the power in the following manner: I put a thin layer of power completely covering the entire area under my bed, ESPECIALLY AROUND THE LEGS OF THE BED! I also sifted a thin layer of DE dust along the foot of my bed, the far side of my bed, and the head of the bed. I then sifted a layer at the threshold inside my room at each door way of my room. I put a sifted layer of powder on Theresa's bare mattress, I then put the fitted sheet back on her mattress. I then anointed the top of her bed as I had done mine. I then sifted DE all over the small area of carpet in the apt. One thing very important, these little b@stard$ are carpet crawlers. They migrate across the floor and across the walls, dust your floors well! Within 2-3 weeks, there were 99% gone. It's now 3 1/2 weeks later, and we would have to look for a single bedbug just to find one, and yes I did reapply the DE to the top of our beds every 3-4 days, but I only treated the carpet once. Imo the mattress and box spring covers was a partial solution, but not a complete one. Theresa sez the covers were about 30% of her solution, and the De was the remaining 70%. Theresa sez that when she finds a stray crawling around, she picks it up and puts it in a jar with DE and it dies within seconds! Roaches. I did the same in the kitchen and I found the roach populace went down immensely. The powder is an excellent roach repellant, as well as an effective roach killer. At night I use to turn on the lights in the kitchen and immediately sprinkle some powder on whatever little b@stard$ I could find scurrying around. I turned it into a sport of sorts. lol.. DE is EXCELLENT roach repellant, and when they get the powder on them it DOES kill them and fairly quickly. The DE has worked better than boric acid, and Harris Roach pills. I am more satisfied with how it solved our bedbug problem, but still, our roach infestation has gone down by probably 90%. The powder is a bit messy to work with but it DOES work. DE is an excellent product for pest control and we will keep it on hand for many-y years to come! Thank you for such a great product and at a very reasonable price! Chris Sianis, Omaha, Nebraska

Flea Control

I put the product down monday or tuesday left it down and closed doors opened windows and left the fans on....I put your product to the test..told my husband to take his shoes and socks off and go check....to his amasment no fleas...nothing jumped on him. He sat down there waiting and nothing!!!!! I vaccines the mattdresses and wiped dressors and nite stands down..im leaving this in the rug as long as we can stand it!!!!! Im thankful I found your product.

No More Bed Bugs!!

Posted on You Tube 9/20/11 after seeing this video about a year and a half ago i purchased 4 one gallon jars of de off your site for a growing bed bug problem i had in my house. in a matter of a week or two we were 100% bed bug free. just wanted to say thanks Larry for ending our nightmare for only about $38 after shipping. he's not lying de works great for just about all insects---oh yeah............and i only used 1 jar of de for my entire 3 bedroom 2 story house! great product, never needed to call a pest control company since!

Flea infestation gone!

Thank you again- DE is the ONLY thing that would work for a flea infestation in my shop. I tried just about EVERYTHING available (even used commercial chemicals) and still got re-infestation when the eggs hatched. I dusted ONCE with DE and a few days later---GONE!!!

We LOVE IT !!

I have just placed my second order. We couldn't be happier with the results. Two years ago, all of the plants I brought in for the winter had "white flies" on them. I tried numerous sprays and chemicals to get rid of these nasty bugs. Last year, I dusted everything with DE and NO flies! Not one. We use it on our carpets prior to vacuuming and dust the dogs with it as well as mix it into their food. I also dust my strawberry patch with DE for natural pest control. Works like a charm and provides a natural, healthy, alternative to chemical pesticides. Thank you for a great product at a great price! Felicia

Bed Bugs Gone!!

I was a little skeptical about your claims, but in two weeks my bed beg problem was solved by your product. I went from total panic when I found out I had bed bugs to extreme happiness and relief. Thank you so much!

Gets Rid of the Bugs!!

I ordered from you Larry and I am glad I did. I use this stuff for my bowels mostly. I also use it to kill roaches. I dusted everything! I dusted under my stove, fridge, under my sink and this was only a week ago, i have not seen any bugs. This stuff is awesome, thanks for it. I recommend to all of my friends. Funny the National Media, is not talking about this. It is totally natural, inexpensive and it actually works. I hate the media they are such liars.

No More Bed Bugs!!

Diatomaceous earth got rid of the bedbug problem in less that 2 weeks! I will recommend you guys to any of my friends or family with pest control problems. Thanks a million!

Roaches Gone!

I use it to get rid of roaches. I spent $500 on pest management, but it didn't work. I put some of this down and roach problem was gone in a week. This stuff is so great it should be in everyone's home!!

No more ticks and fleas!

I am giving it to the cats and my dog and sprinkling it on their fur to keep the ticks and fleas off. It has helped tremendously. Living in Oregon we have lots of ticks and the cats always seem to bring one or two in on them and then they crawl onto me and then I get bit and swell up from the bite. Since powdering them down, no more ticks on me or the cats. This is great stuff!!

Bugs are Gone!

I am a new customer to this product and I give D.E. 5 Stars for effectiveness. The company was very helpful and now we are all on D.E. and the pets, and the garden, and it got rid of the ants under the patio and I sprinkled it around the cracks around the house. The bugs went away. My chihuahuas hair has started to grow back, the fleas have all left the outside pets. This is Fantastic.

Japanese Ladybeetles Dead

And that's only part of the good news I'd like to share with you. The second part comes as no surprise to me... as a gardener, I've heard of and run into diatomaceous earth before, used as an organic pest control product. But I wasn't sure the food grade would work as it's a very fine substance. We live in an older home, and have an infestation of the Japanese Ladybeetles that have been sweeping the nation. They somehow squeeze in through the window frames and other cracks in the house, and they congregate around the window areas... by the hundreds! They bite, and are very annoying. Anyway, I spread a little of the powder on the windowsill, and lo and behold, it does work! All I have to do now is vacuum up the dead bugs! It's working very effectively as an organic pest control! May your God continue to Bless you all.

Controls Harmful Insects

When I lived in Phoenix, AZ, as a breeder of Champion Dogs, it was very important for me to be able to keep my pets safe from any harmful pest that crawl around on the ground and onto my pets, or into their food and water bowls. Our most common problems were, ticks, fleas, scorpions, ants, and roaches. Within 1 wk of applying DE to my kennel area, front and back yard, I was so amazed at the quick end results! I never had to worry about another bug crawling on my dogs again, or getting into their food or water. The added bonus to using this is that once applied to the area it seemed to have an ever lasting affect, we had hard rains that year, gusty winds, not to mention the daily rinsing of the kennels and daily watered grass area where they lay and play. I didn't see another ant, roach, scorpion or tick again! Plus to my surprise, flies, which I thought were a given, were rarely ever seen! Tucson, AZ

Fire Ants!

Let me tell you, DE is absolutely WONDERFUL!!! Not only is it getting the ants under control in our yard, we are taking it and giving it to the pets as well. Those darned fire ants are a bit stubborn and we do have to keep adding to some of the hills, but each day they are less and less. In a yard 1/2 acre big, we only had 6 hills that had some very resistant ants in it, and our guess is that those are the ones that came from way deep inside a hill, or traveled from the neighbors yard over. Vicki

It Works!

We recently bought DE and an atomizer from your company. We have a 1-year old peach tree that shows signs of peach leaf curl, and info I read said it cannot be managed once started - just spray earlier next spring. I misted DE on the leaves, and all new leaves are completely normal with no more signs of curling/browning. Hmmm.

Flies and ants controled

I stumbled across your website over a year ago while looking for horse wormers. I called every farm supply store around and no one had even heard of it. After reading about it, I decided to give it a try, and the results were very good. I noticed the horses hardly had any flies around them and when we would ride trails with others, I noticed their poop was not smelly or runny like the other horses, plus they just look good. Also i know it really works on ant beds, it takes just some sprinkles on the top and they are gone within days. I also use it around the perimiter of my house and I have not seen any bugs.

From Martha Stewart Magazine

In the "Good Things" section: SHAKE AWAY PESTS! Put a kitchen shaker to work in your garden; it's a great way for dispensing food grade diatomaceous earth. This is a nontoxic pesticide which has sharp edges that kill slugs and bugs without chemicals. Use the shaker to dust an even ring on soil around plants.