On 05 Jul 2003 21:58:24 GMT, (CpRensCoNY) wrote:

Nicotine, arsenic and copper sulphate were
favored for years.


This among the many idiocies in your post stands out. No one considers
these products organic. To bad you live in conditions where you have
to use organo-phosphates on your kids, many of us do not.

You really haven't much of a clue about the effective use of oil as an
insecticide. I've controlled scale for years in large indoor and
outdoor collections with oil, as have many others committed to good
cultural gardening practices.