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

Loren Nancarrow; Janet Hogan Taylor

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

Review:

No, this isn't a slimy murder mystery! Here's a guide to natural pest control in your home and garden (and even on your pets). It offers simple techniques to help you avoid the use of toxic pesticides and chemicals around the house, and is a welcome alternative to the old "Kills Them Dead" mentality of poison sprays and powders common in the past (which is where they should be--the past). Here's the guide you've been waiting for!

About the Author:

LOREN NANCARROW is a veteran TV journalist who has forged new ground in the field of environmentalism as one of this country's first eco-reporters.
JANET HOGAN TAYLOR is an entymologist and former zookeeper who now works as a community environmentalist on issues of conservation, ecology, and land use.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0898158524
• ISBN 13: 9780898158526
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160