Tiny Game Hunting

Environmentally Healthy Ways to Trap and Kill the Pests in Your House and Garden
1. Auflage, New Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-520-22107-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klein, Hilary Dole

Wenner, Adrian M

Weitere Mitwirkende

Johnson, Courtlandt

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Technologie der land- und forstwirtschaftlichen Chemikalien
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Schädlingsbekämpfung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS
Preface to the New Edition
Introduction
'Incredible Insects': The Toxic Tide

PART ONE: Tiny Game Hunting in the Home

The Folly of Pesticides

Home, Toxic Home
Home, Safe Home
Quitting Pesticides for Good and Disposing of Them

Common Pests:

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:

Asian Lady Beetles

Boxelder Bugs

Centipedes
Cluster Flies
Crickets
Earwigs

Moths
Scorpions

PART TWO: Tiny Game Hunting in the Garden
The Healthy Garden
The Fallacy of Pesticides

Compost

Earthworms

Mulch

Organic Fertilizers

Cover Crops

Companion Planting

The Tactics of Tiny Game Hunting in the Garden:

Handpicking

Hosing
Traps

Barriers

Soaps

Horticultural Oils

Dusts

Biological Controls

Botanicals

Repellents

Allies in the Air and on the Ground:

Bats
Birds Lizards

Snakes

Toads and Frogs

Good Bugs
Mail Order Mercenaries
Green Lacewings

Ladybugs

Mealybug Destroyers

Parasitic Nematodes
Parasitic Wasps

Parasites of Flies

Predatory Mites

Good Bugs Gratis
"True" Bugs

Beetles

A Few Good Flies

Distinguished Native Beneficials
Dragon Flies
Damselflies
Antlions
Fireflies

Honorably Discharged
Praying Mantises

Garden Pests
Chompers

Cabbage Loopers and Imported Cabbageworms
Colorado Potato Beetles

Cucumber Beetles
Cutworms

Fall Webworms and Eastern Tent Caterpillars

Flea Beetles

Grasshoppers

Gypsy Moths

Japanese Beetles

Leafhoppers

Mexican Bean Beetles

Tomato Hornworms

Root Destroyers

June Beetles

Nematodes
Root Maggots

Wireworms (Click Beetles)

Slimers
Slugs and Snails

Suckers
Aphids

Mealybugs

Scale Insects

Spider Mites
Thrips

"True" Bugs
Whiteflies

Tunnelers

Borers

Codling Moths
Corn Earworms
Plum Curculios

Friend or Foe?

Centipedes and Millipedes

Earwigs

Opossums

Sowbugs and Pillbugs

Yellow Jackets and Wasps

Critter Control
Diggers

Gophers

Moles
Foragers

Deer

Dogs

Rabbits

Raccoons

Skunks
Squirrels

Resources and Mail Order
Select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hilary Dole Klein is a writer living in Santa Barbara and the author of A Guide to Nonsexist Children's Books (1976) and Substituting Ingredients (third edition, 1994), among other books. Adrian M. Wenner is Professor Emeritus of Natural History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of books, articles, and a chapter in Comparative Psychology of Invertebrates: The Field and Laboratory Study of Insect Behavior (1997).