Dead Snails Leave No Trails: Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden - Softcover

Nancarrow, Loren; Taylor, Janet Hogan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898158524 ISBN 13: 9780898158526

Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 1996

Synopsis

This comprehensive guide to controlling pests in your home and garden (and even on your pets!) is packed with simple and effective ways to avoid chemical pesticides that can kill off beneficial insects and keep useful reptiles and birds from making anyone's yard their home. Let nature's balance work to your advantage with plants that attract helpful insects and repel destructive ones, all-purpose pest repellants like garlic and chile peppers, and beneficial creatures like bats, green lacewings, hummingbirds, and lizards. Includes safe methods for eliminating ants, roaches, and rodents; ways to get rid of fleas and other critters that plague pets; and even a buying guide to the beneficial organisms you want in your garden (whether you know it or not).

About this title

From the Author

Natural common-sense approaches to pest control.
How would you like a guide on nature-friendly pest control for your home and garden made from ingredients found in your own kitchen, like ammonia, baking soda and bran? Did you know that you can control aphids on your rose bushes using banana peels? Sound good but impossible? Well with "Dead Snails Leave No Trails" you will wonder why you ever put up with the smell and possible health hazards of chemical pesticides. Our book is filled with safe and practical tips that I, an entomologist and former zookeeper and my co-author, an organic gardener and garden talk-show host have used for years. In the book we offer chapters dealing with pest control of many common and troublesome creatures like ants, roaches, mice, termites and (of course) snails. We will also help you protect your pets from fleas and ticks. Sometimes people tell us it is hard to tell the good insects and animals from the bad ones, so included are illustrations and common sense explanations to make you a pretty good amateur biologist in no time. You will also learn how to use an insect's own biology against it and what plants act as natural bug repellents. We will also help you keep those four-legged intruders like gophers, deer and skunks from destroying your garden. At the end of the book there is a handy reference and buying guide to beneficial insects and suppliers. In summary if you are looking for a safe, natural alternative to pesticides and harmful chemicals, this book is worth a look. I would love to hear your best natural pest control tips or how you attract butterflies and nature to your garden. Please drop me a line at my e-mail address.

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive guide to controlling pests in the home, garden and pets, without the use of chemical pesticides. The book includes safe methods for elimiating ants, roaches and rodents; ways to get rid of fleas and other pests on pets; plants that attract helpful insects and repel destructive ones; natural pest repellents - garlic and chile peppers; and a buying guide to the organisms that people would want in the garden.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0898158524
• ISBN 13: 9780898158526
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192