Tiny Game Hunting

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

By: Hilary Dole Klein, Adrian M. Wenner, Courtlandt Johnson (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 29 June 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"Tiny Game Hunting is the delightful name of a useful book [that tells] how to get ants to move by pouring a blended solution of lemon peel on their nest, how to repel gophers with Juicy Fruit gum, and how to confuse thrips with aluminum strips. There is some very good natural history on each pest - so you better understand what makes them tick - and it is told with a fine sense of humor. There are dozens of pests described and hundreds of clever cures in this book." - Los Angeles Times "This book advocates the rational use of alternative home remedies, rather than commercial long-lived biocidal death sprays....[The authors] present commonsense, forgotten, and little-known tactics for dealing with troublesome pests in and around the home." - Backyard Bugwatching"

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Non-Fiction Gardening Specialised Gardening Methods Organic & Sustainable Gardening Engineering & Technology Agriculture & Farming Pest Control & Plant Diseases Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning The Environment Conservation of The Environment Home & House Maintenance Nature & The Natural World

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Preface to the New Edition	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Incredible Insects
The Toxic Tide
Tiny Game Hunting in the Home
The Folly of Pesticides	p. 9
Home, Toxic Home
Home, Safe Home
Quitting Pesticides for Good and Disposing of Them
Common Pests	p. 14
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	p. 108
Asian Lady Beetles
Boxelder Bugs
Centipedes
Cluster Flies
Crickets
Earwigs
Moths
Scorpions
Tiny Game Hunting in the Garden
The Healthy Garden	p. 117
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	p. 124
Handpicking
Hosing
Traps
Barriers
Soaps
Horticultural Oils
Dusts
Biological Controls
Botanicals
Repellents
Allies in the Air and on the Ground	p. 141
Bats
Birds
Lizards
Snakes
Toads and Frogs
Good Bugs	p. 149
Mail Order Mercenaries	p. 150
Green Lacewings
Ladybugs
Mealybug Destroyers
Parasitic Nematodes
Parasitic Wasps
Parasites of Flies
Predatory Mites
Good Bugs Gratis	p. 156
"True" Bugs
Beetles
A Few Good Flies
Distinguished Native Beneficials	p. 159
Antlions
Damselflies
Dragonflies
Fireflies
Honorably Discharged	p. 161
Praying Mantises
Garden Pests	p. 162
Chompers	p. 162
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	p. 179
June Beetles
Nematodes
Root Maggots
Wireworms
Slimers	p. 184
Slugs and Snails
Suckers	p. 190
Aphids
Leafhoppers
Mealybugs
Scale Insects
Spider Mites
Thrips
"True" Bugs
Whiteflies
Tunnelers	p. 202
Borers
Codling Moths and Apple Maggots
Corn Earworms
Plum Curculios
Friend or Foe?	p. 209
Centipedes and Millipedes
Earwigs
Opossums
Sowbugs and Pillbugs
Yellow Jackets and Wasps
Critter Control	p. 219
Diggers	p. 219
Gophers
Moles
Foragers	p. 226
Deer
Dogs
Rabbits
Raccoons
Skunks
Squirrels
Resources and Mail Order	p. 235
Select Bibliography	p. 245
Index	p. 249
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Environmentally Healthy Ways to Trap and Kill the Pests in Your House and Garden

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