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

     This comprehensive guide is a user-friendly source for anyone who wants to control pests in the home and garden without heavy-duty chemical warfare. Readers will learn how to make their own all-purpose pest repellents with simple household ingredients like chile peppers and vinegar. Gardeners will learn how to use plant pairings to attract beneficial insects and animals or repel harmful ones. Homeowners and apartment dwellers with indoor infestations will also find useful advice on safely eliminating ants, roaches, and rodents. With a full chapter on how to protect your pets from critters like ticks and fleas, and simple DIY organic pest control recipes throughout, this is the most straightforward and simple guide to indoor and outdoor natural pest solutions.

Chapter One. Pesticide Savvy 

(Synthetic vs. Natural vs. Biological)        

Integrated Pest Management • Pesticide Safety • Pesticide Information Resources

Chapter Two. Home Pest Control         

Ants • Bedbugs • Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs • Cockroaches • 

Dust Mites • Mice and Rats • Termites 

Chapter Three. Garden Pest Control    

Ants in the Garden • Aphids • Cabbage Loopers • Corn Earworms • Cucumber Beetles • Cutworms • Earwigs • Fruit Flies • Grasshoppers • 

Green Fig Beetles • Gypsy Moths • Harlequin Bugs • Japanese Beetles • 

Mealybugs and Scale Insects • Mosquitoes • Rose Slugs (Sawflies) • Rose Mildew • Snails and Slugs • Sow Bugs • Spider Mites • Squash Vine Borers • Tomato Hornworms • Whiteflies • Wireworms (Click Beetles) 

Chapter Four. Pet Help     

Fleas • Flies • Ticks 

Chapter Five. Good Guys or Bad Guys?         

Blister Beetles • Centipedes • Crane Flies • Crickets • Darkling Beetles (aka Stink Beetles) • Eucalyptus Long-Horned Beetles • Jerusalem Crickets • Snakes • Spiders • Spittle Bugs (Froghoppers) • Tarantula Hawk Wasps • Yellow Jacket Wasps 

Chapter Six. Beneficial Insects and Animals  

Bats • Bees • Green Lacewings • Ground Beetles (Carabid Beetles) • Hover Flies (Syrphid Flies) • Hummingbirds • Ladybugs (Ladybird Beetles) • Lizards • Nematodes • Parasitic Wasps • Praying Mantises • Robber Flies • Toads and Frogs 

Chapter Seven. Beneficial Plants 

and All-Purpose Repellents          

Insect-Repelling Plants • Animal-Repelling Plants • All-Purpose Repellents 

Chapter Eight. Four-Legged Intruders 

Cats and Dogs • Deer • Gophers • Moles • Opossums • Rabbits • Skunks • Ground Squirrels • Tree Squirrels • Voles

Resources and Buying Guide

Glossary 

Bibliography 

About the Authors 

Index