Tiny Game Hunting

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Environmentally Healthy Ways to Trap and Kill the Pests in Your House and Garden

By Adrian M. Wenner and Hilary Dole Klein

Summary

Tiny Game Hunting by Adrian M. Wenner and Hilary Dole Klein offers an insightful exploration into environmentally friendly strategies for pest control. It delves into understanding the natural behaviour of insects to manage them without harmful chemicals. This practical guide combines science with nature-friendly techniques, making it an essential read for those interested in sustainable gardening and pest management.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Tiny Game Hunting

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This book may appeal to you if you're interested in environmentally friendly and non-toxic methods of pest management. It's perfect for those who care about protecting both their gardens and the surrounding ecosystem, offering science-based solutions for controlling pests without resorting to harmful chemicals.

Tiny Game Hunting

A guide to combating pests without using toxic chemicals. Illustrated with detailed drawings, the book gives more than 200 tried-and-tested ways to control or kill common household and garden pests without using toxic pesticides.

Description

Every year, Americans use a staggering five hundred million pounds of toxic pesticides in and around their homes, schools, parks, and roads—a growing health risk for people and the environment. But are these poisons really necessary?

This book, appealing to the hunter in us all, shows how to triumph in combat with pests without losing the war to toxic chemicals. Tiny Game Hunting, written in a lively and entertaining style and illustrated with detailed drawings, gives more than two hundred tried-and-true ways to control or kill common household and garden pests without using toxic pesticides.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Tiny Game Hunting offers creative and natural solutions for pest control, encouraging the use of home remedies over commercial pesticides. The authors provide detailed natural histories of various pests, combined with a humorous touch, to help readers understand and manage them effectively. The book is praised for its practical advice and commonsense approaches.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520221079

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 June 2001

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 80 line illustrations

Contributors:

Illustrated by Courtlandt Johnson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 278

Collections

Adrian M. Wenner Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Hilary Dole Klein Home & Garden Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Hilary Dole Klein is a writer living in Santa Barbara and the author of A Guide to Nonsexist Children's Books (1976) and Substituting Ingredients (third edition, 1994), among other books. Adrian M. Wenner is Professor Emeritus of Natural History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of books, articles, and a chapter in Comparative Psychology of Invertebrates: The Field and Laboratory Study of Insect Behavior (1997).