Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised
By Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor
By Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor
Category: Garden | Science & Technology
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Apr 02, 2013 | ISBN 9781607743200
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Table Of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One. Pesticide Savvy
(Synthetic vs. Natural vs. Biological)
Integrated Pest Management • Pesticide Safety • Pesticide Information Resources
Chapter Two. Home Pest Control
Ants • Bedbugs • Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs • Cockroaches •
Dust Mites • Mice and Rats • Termites
Chapter Three. Garden Pest Control
Ants in the Garden • Aphids • Cabbage Loopers • Corn Earworms • Cucumber Beetles • Cutworms • Earwigs • Fruit Flies • Grasshoppers •
Green Fig Beetles • Gypsy Moths • Harlequin Bugs • Japanese Beetles •
Mealybugs and Scale Insects • Mosquitoes • Rose Slugs (Sawflies) • Rose Mildew • Snails and Slugs • Sow Bugs • Spider Mites • Squash Vine Borers • Tomato Hornworms • Whiteflies • Wireworms (Click Beetles)
Chapter Four. Pet Help
Fleas • Flies • Ticks
Chapter Five. Good Guys or Bad Guys?
Blister Beetles • Centipedes • Crane Flies • Crickets • Darkling Beetles (aka Stink Beetles) • Eucalyptus Long-Horned Beetles • Jerusalem Crickets • Snakes • Spiders • Spittle Bugs (Froghoppers) • Tarantula Hawk Wasps • Yellow Jacket Wasps
Chapter Six. Beneficial Insects and Animals
Bats • Bees • Green Lacewings • Ground Beetles (Carabid Beetles) • Hover Flies (Syrphid Flies) • Hummingbirds • Ladybugs (Ladybird Beetles) • Lizards • Nematodes • Parasitic Wasps • Praying Mantises • Robber Flies • Toads and Frogs
Chapter Seven. Beneficial Plants
and All-Purpose Repellents
Insect-Repelling Plants • Animal-Repelling Plants • All-Purpose Repellents
Chapter Eight. Four-Legged Intruders
Cats and Dogs • Deer • Gophers • Moles • Opossums • Rabbits • Skunks • Ground Squirrels • Tree Squirrels • Voles
Resources and Buying Guide
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index
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