Truman's Scientific Guide to Pest Control Operations

Truman's Scientific Guide to Pest Control Operations, fifth edition, is known as "The Bible of the Industry" -- it provides comprehensive information on the business of controlling insects, other arthropods and vertebrate pests in homes, business establishments, industrial plants and municipal buildings, as well as in outdoor areas frequented by man. It also provides resource material for those employed in urban and industrial pest control. For more than 50 years, pest control operators and students of entomology have relied on this book for its basic sceintific information as well as its guidelines for practical solutions to pest control problems. It serves as an indispensable guide to acquiring knowledge and meeting the legal, social, and economic challenges and opportunities that affect the manner in which the task of pest control is performed. Fully illustrated and indexed, it provides specific information about pesticides, regulations and new techniques.

The three authors of the fifth edition represent industry, academia, and the private sector. Dr. John M. Owens is senior associate in the Research, Development, and Engineering Division of S.C. Johnson and Son; Dr. Gary W. Bennett is a professor of entomology in the Center for Urban and Industrial Pest Management at Purdue University; and Dr. Robert M. Corrigan is owner of RMC Pest Management Consultants.