Tiny Game Hunting Environmentally Healthy Ways to Trap and Kill the Pests in Your House and Garden

Name: Tiny Game Hunting Environmentally Healthy Ways to Trap and Kill the Pests in Your House and Garden
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ISBN: 9780520221079

ISBN-10: 0520221079

ISBN-13: 9780520221079

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Hilary Dole Klein, Adrian M. Wenner, Courtlandt Johnson

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Every year Americans use a staggering five hundred million pounds of toxic pesticides in and around their homes, schools, parks, and roads--a growing health risk for people and the environment. But are these poisons really necessary? This book, appealing to the hunter in us all, shows how to triumph in combat with pests without losing the war to toxic chemicals.Tiny Game Hunting,written in a lively and entertaining style and illustrated with detailed drawings, gives more than two hundred tried-and-true ways to control or kill common household and garden pests without using toxic pesticides.

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/29/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Preface to the New Edition


Introduction


Incredible Insects


The Toxic Tide



Tiny Game Hunting in the Home


The Folly of Pesticides


Home, Toxic Home


Home, Safe Home


Quitting Pesticides for Good and Disposing of Them


Common Pests


Ants


Bed Bugs


Bees


Clothes Moths and Carpet Beetles


Cockroaches


Fleas


Flies


Houseplant Pests


Lice


Mosquitoes


Pantry Pests


Rats and Mice


Silverfish


Spiders


Termites and Wood-Boring Beetles


Ticks, Chiggers, and Mites


Occasional Invaders


Asian Lady Beetles


Boxelder Bugs


Centipedes


Cluster Flies


Crickets


Earwigs


Moths


Scorpions



Tiny Game Hunting in the Garden


The Healthy Garden


The Fallacy of Pesticides


Better Soil for Stronger Plants


Compost


Earthworms


Mulch


Organic Fertilizers


Cover Crops


Companion Planting


The Tactics of Tiny Game Hunting in the Garden


Handpicking


Hosing


Traps


Barriers


Soaps


Horticultural Oils


Dusts


Biological Controls


Botanicals


Repellents


Allies in the Air and on the Ground


Bats


Birds


Lizards


Snakes


Toads and Frogs


Good Bugs


Mail Order Mercenaries


Green Lacewings


Ladybugs


Mealybug Destroyers


Parasitic Nematodes


Parasitic Wasps


Parasites of Flies


Predatory Mites


Good Bugs Gratis


"True" Bugs


Beetles


A Few Good Flies


Distinguished Native Beneficials


Antlions


Damselflies


Dragonflies


Fireflies


Honorably Discharged


Praying Mantises


Garden Pests


Chompers


Cabbage Loopers and Imported Cabbageworms


Colorado Potato Beetles


Cucumber Beetles


Cutworms


Fall Webworms and Eastern Tent Caterpillars


Flea Beetles


Grasshoppers


Gypsy Moths


Japanese Beetles


Mexican Bean Beetles


Tomato Hornworms


Root Destroyers


June Beetles


Nematodes


Root Maggots


Wireworms


Slimers


Slugs and Snails


Suckers


Aphids


Leafhoppers


Mealybugs


Scale Insects


Spider Mites


Thrips


"True" Bugs


Whiteflies


Tunnelers


Borers


Codling Moths and Apple Maggots


Corn Earworms


Plum Curculios


Friend or Foe?


Centipedes and Millipedes


Earwigs


Opossums


Sowbugs and Pillbugs


Yellow Jackets and Wasps


Critter Control


Diggers


Gophers


Moles


Foragers


Deer


Dogs


Rabbits


Raccoons


Skunks


Squirrels


Resources and Mail Order


Select Bibliography


Index