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

Loren Nancarrow; Janet Hogan Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607743191 ISBN 13: 9781607743194

Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 2013

Synopsis

A practical guide to repelling indoor and outdoor pests using organic methods, updated with new information on getting rid of bedbugs and dust mites, plus includes updated online resources.
 
     This comprehensive guide is a user-friendly source for anyone who wants to control pests in the home and garden without heavy-duty chemical warfare. Readers will learn how to make their own all-purpose pest repellents with simple household ingredients like chile peppers and vinegar. Gardeners will learn how to use plant pairings to attract beneficial insects and animals or repel harmful ones. Homeowners and apartment dwellers with indoor infestations will also find useful advice on safely eliminating ants, roaches, and rodents. With a full chapter on how to protect your pets from critters like ticks and fleas, and simple DIY organic pest control recipes throughout, this is the most straightforward and simple guide to indoor and outdoor natural pest solutions.

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.

About the Author

As one of the country's first environmental TV reporters, LOREN NANCARROW has seen interest and knowledge in humans' role in the natural environment grow significantly in the past three decades, and he's been awarded some of broadcast journalism's highest honors for reporting on environmental science and nature around the planet. When not covering the news, Loren has worked at improving the environment as a founding trustee of the EcoLife Foundation. The EcoLife Foundation has projects in the United States, Mexico, and Africa aimed at reducing carbon output, reforesting important habitat, and saving vulnerable species, like monarch butterflies in Mexico and mountain gorillas in Uganda. Loren makes his home in coastal Southern California. He and his wife, Susie, have three grown children. He is a passionate organic vegetable gardener.

A native Californian, JANET HOGAN TAYLOR graduated from San Jose State University with a bachelor's degree in biology with emphasis in entomology. Janet took a job with the San Diego Zoo, where she became a senior keeper in the bird department. Never forgetting her roots in entomology, Janet helped develop several natural pest control techniques at the zoo to keep the birds and animals pest free. Currently, Janet works as an environmental scientist and resides in Southern California with her husband, a black lab named Drake, and hundreds of backyard birds, reptiles, and assorted varmints. She and her husband Brian, also an entomologist, have two grown children.

Loren and Janet have written three books together: Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Dead Daisies Make Me Crazy, and The Worm Book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1607743191
• ISBN 13: 9781607743194
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160