100% Natural Organic Pest Control for Home & Garden

100% Natural Organic Pest Control for Home & Garden by Tom Roberts is a fairly short paperback (coming in at just under 100 pages) put together in a sort of pamphlet style (lots of bullets and drawings instead of big chunks of text). The cover price is $10.95, a bit steep for such a short book.

There are color drawings of various pests (mostly insects) along with information for that specific pest such as its lifecycle and short pieces of information on how to control them. Each entry is fairly short, approximately three entries per two pages. If you're looking for an overview of a number of pests, Organic Pest Control may be helpful. If you only have problems with one or two pests, the book might not have enough information for you.

The book is divided into the following sections:

Introduction, Biological Insect Control, Cultural Insect Control, Acute Insect Control, Creating a Good Garden Environment, Integrated Pest Management Principles, Insect Resistance, Cockroach Integrated Pest Management for the Home, and Common Pests of Gardens and Homes. (This last section takes up the bulk of the book, about 40 pages.)

The appendix is also fairly lengthy and is worth mentioning. It touches on such topics as: The BBC Method of Insect Management, Manufacturers of Microbials (Micro-organisms), Databases for Toxicological Information, and Beneficial Insect Producers in the US and Canada.

All in all, it's an easy read, and it's fairly easy to find what you're looking for. Just don't consider Organic Pest Control an exhaustive resource.

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