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Parent Post: Disinfectant/Biocide Formula
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hunter
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9/26/2025, 12:57:49 PM
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If your environment is getting dry enough to dry out DE to effectiveness, your environment is probably not pest-filled. The alcohol solution is a spray-contact solution that is a disinfectant and biocide. You would not use it outside on the yard, a different formula is required for that purpose. The 70% alcohol in its own is a biocide and nematodes would not be feasting on it. In the study linked to the article you posted (you couldn't even read the study, you just post articles of studies??) they don't even reach 1% ethanol. The oils make the ethanol solution a more effective nemacide by bringing its kill time of the most hardy nematodes from 10 minutes to only 1 minute. Also, you're not going to be worried about soft bodies nematodes living in the undersoil when you're using a disinfectant. Soft-bodied nematodes living in the undersoil aren't trying to infect you. If you're so resolute, keep throwing silicon all over your yard. I will hard pass.
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