Bug Busters Poison-Free Pest Controls For Your House & Garden Bernice Lifton

ISBN: 0-7570-0095-9 Length: 304 Pages Size: 6 X 9-inch Format: Quality Paperback Category: House & Home / Gardening / Pest Control Price: $14.95 US / $22.50 CAN Availability: In Print   Contents Reviews

Are bugs and rodents becoming a real problem in your home and garden? Wouldn't it be great if you could find a way to get rid of those pesky critters without endangering your health and that of your family and pets through the use of chemical pesticides?

Well, now you can. Bug Busters was specially designed to offer sensible solutions for people who want better alternatives. Now in its third edition, Bug Busters provides dozens of easy, environmentally safe methods--using inexpensive equipment and supplies commonly found in most homes--for keeping your household free of pests.

Written in easy-to-understand language, this book combines traditional time-proven pest controls with the latest findings of the National Centers for Disease Control, university research, and the U.S. Government. Also included are some new and innovative techniques for safely eradicating vermin. The ecologically sound methods described are more effective than chemical pesticides in the long run because they kill or repel only the pest they are designed to work against--leaving natural predators unharmed--and because insects cannot build up an immunity to them.

Even when a chemical pesticide or exterminator may be your only recourse, as with termite infestation, Bug Busters tells you how to find a competent professional and how to properly handle and dispose of chemical pesticides. At a time when literally thousands of adults and children are treated yearly for pesticide mishaps, Bug Busters provides important information for those individuals concerned with safe and intelligent pest control.

Bernice Lifton is a professional writer-editor-researcher. She is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. As a journalist, her articles have appeared in numerous national magazines, including Parents and This Week. As an editor, she has developed, rewritten, and edited several dozen college textbooks. For the last fifteen years, Ms. Lifton has studied and researched environmentally safe and effective methods of pest control. She and her husband currently live in Pasadena, California.

Contents

Foreword

Preface

How to Use This Book

Part 1: No Pests, No Poisons

1. Controls, Not Chemicals

2. Is Your Problem Really Insect Pests?

Part 2: Pests of Food

3. Outsmarting the Cagey Cockroach

4. Critters in the Crackers, Pests in the Pantry

5. Rats and Mice: There's No Pied Piper

6. The Fearsome Fly

Part 3: Pests of the Body

7. The Mosquito--A Deadly Nuisance

8. The Mighty Flea, the Insidious Tick

9. Lice and Bedbugs: The Unmentionables

Part 4: Pests of Property

10. Clothes Moths, Carpet Beetles, Silverfish, Firebrats, and Crickets

11. Termites and Carpenter Ants: The Hidden Vandals

12. Garden Pests--Part of the Landscape

Part 5: Controlling the Controllers

13. Ants, Spiders, and Wasps--Useful but Unwelcome

14. Pesticides: Only as a Last Resort

References

Index

Reviews

"Dozens of environmentally safe, easy methods are provided."

The Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 2, 2005

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