Flora UK suggested in another thread that it would be a good idea to have a thread on how to control bugs, so here it is. If you have an earth friendly bug solver then post it here. I'll start with some of mine. I found this recipe here on this site and was surprized at how well it worked.

Bait for Earwigs.

Equal parts of soy sauce, oil and (molasses or corn syrup). The molasses or syrup is bait to attract them--the oil doesn't allow them to crawl back out and the salt in the soy sauce finishes them off. Put it in a small container(small yogurt container, larger pill bottle, specimen bottle or anything that is fairly deep) covering 1/3 of the bottom with the mixture and bury it up to the brim in the soil. I like the smaller ones because it doesn�t take as much bait and they are easier to bury into the soil, But my neighbor uses margarine containers. Prop a lid over it so it doesn't get diluted by rain and so it is a nice dark place for them to hide--ha. When you prop the lid, leave a small space for them to crawl into the container. You might have to wait a couple of days for it to work, but mine were full of them the next day.

I read in another post that just oil and soy sauce worked so I may try that out next summer and see which is better.

I don't often get aphids but one year my crabapple tree was full of them. I put 1/2 a cup of mouthwash--the cheap kind that has alcohol in it--no rubbing alcohol won't work. It has to be an edible alcohol. Anyway

1/2 cup mouthwash

2 tablespoons insecticidal soap

I teaspoon lemon juice

I put it in a hose end sprayer and sprayed the whole tree that evening. The next day there was not one aphid. I do use it diluted in a hand spray bottle and it seems to work on a few other bugs --

2 tablespoons mouthwash

2 drops soap and a drop of lemon juice in a pint of water.

For slugs I use safers slug bait and that works too. I found beer didn't work for me.

I also occasionally use neem oil.

My husband hand picks colorado potato beetles.

A row cover put on when the seeds are planted and left on all summer, will keep the carrot rust fly, onion and radish maggots away

Well that's my list of things that I can think of right now--add yours