Author(s): William Olkowski, Sheila Daar, Helga Olkowski
Publisher: Taunton Press
Hardcover: 736 pages
ISBN: 0942391632
ISBN-13: 978-0942391633
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Hardcover, 715 pages
Publication date: July 1991
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If you have a home, an apartment, a garden, or a pet (or, in some cases, housemates or tenants), you’ve probably got pests. And if you want to control pests, there’s no need to poison yourself. While the Green Revolution and DDT and other pesticides dominated the world of agribusiness, thoughtful scientists world-wide were simultanously and silently working on “Integrated Pest Management”, which is often as effective as pesticides at reducing or eliminating pests. From ridding your apartment of cockroaches to dealing with the regional deforestation threats of Gypsy Moths, this is the authoritative book on how to control pests by using the natural mechanisms of control that have kept our planet from being savaged, prior to our human disruptions.
Customer Comments 02/19/97:
The best book for what’s bugging you.
If it burrows, crawls, flies or wriggles, it’s got to be in the book “Common Sense Pest Control” by Sheila Daar, et al. This comprehensive guide to pests in all forms is a must for everyone who wants to safely rid their environment of common (and not so common) pests. The chapter on human body pests will be throughly enjoyed by kids who love to gross out their friends and family. Still, this book is a serious and comprehensive bible for gardeners, homeowners and apartment dwellers – anyone who’s feeling ‘bugged’.
Table of Contents
1: Basic Concepts
Chapter 1: Naming Living Things and Understanding their Habits and Habitats
Chapter 2: Natural Pest Controls
Chapter 3: Introduction to Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Chapter 4: Pest-Treatment Strategies and Tactics
2: Beneficial Organisms
Chapter 5: Meet “the Beneficials”
3: Pesticides
Chapter 6: Choosing the Right Chemical and Microbial Tools
Chapter 7: Some Useful Inorganics, Organics and Botanicals
Chapter 8: New Frontiers: Microbials, Pheromones and Insect Growth Regulator
4: Pests of the Human Body
Chapter 9: Pinworms
Chapter 10: Mites
Chapter 11: Lice
Chapter 12: Bedbugs and Conenose Bugs
5: Pests Inside the House
Chapter 13: Pests of Fabric, Feathers and Paper
Chapter 14: Kitchen and Pantry Pests
Chapter 15: Fleas, Ticks, Heartworms and Mites
Chapter 16: Mice, Spiders and Bats
6: Pest of Indoor Plants
Chapter 17: Detecting Symptoms of Indoor Plant Problems
Chapter 18: General Management Strategies for House Plant Problems
Chapter 19: Preparing for Least-Toxic Pest Control
Chapter 20: Controlling Pests of Indoor Plants
7: Pests of the House Structure
Chapter 21: Identifying Structural Pests and Eliminating Moisture
Chapter 22: Wood Decay and Preservative Treatments
Chapter 23: Termites
Chapter 24: Carpenter Ants and Carpenter Bees
Chapter 25: Wood-Boring Beetles
8: Pests in the Garden
Chapter 26: Garden Design and Maintenance
Chapter 27: Meet the Weeds
Chapter 28: Safe and Sane Weed Management
Chapter 29: Preventing Lawn Pests
Chapter 30: Least-Toxic Lawn Pest Management
Chapter 31: Pests of Food and Ornamental Gardens
9: Pest of the Community
Chapter 32: Pests of Shade Trees
Chapter 33: Rats
Chapter 34: Filth Flies
Chapter 35: Yellowjackets
Chapter 36: Mosquitoes
Resource Appendix
Index
