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Good Bug, Bad Bug: Who's Who, What They Do, and How to Manage Them Organically (All You Need to Know about the Insects in Your Garden)

Good Bug, Bad Bug: Who's Who, What They Do, and How to Manage Them Organically (All You Need to Know about the Insects in Your Garden)
By Jessica Walliser

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Good Bug, Bad Bug lets you quickly identify the most common invasive and beneficial insects (and other tiny critters) in your garden, and gives the best organic advice on how to attract the good guys and manage the bad guyswithout reaching for the toxic chemicals. Garden expert Jessica Walliser also offers strategies for dealing with the new bugs in town, those worrisome strangers that are starting to show up as a result of climate change. Thirty-six bugs, presented in full color on laminated stock, with concealed wire binding. Sturdy enough to take into the garden for easy reference.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #328616 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-06-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Spiral-bound
  • 90 pages

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Garden writer Jessica Walliser has put together a book that begs to be taken into the backyard. -- Pittsburgh Tribune, May 24, 2008 (By Bob Karlovitz)

About the Author

Jessica Wallliser is an ornamental horticultrist and the co-host of two weekly live radio shows heard on KDKA in Pittsburgh and a national show heard on Sirius/Lime radio. She is also the co-author of Grow Organic, Over 250 Tips for Growing Flowers, Veggies, Lawns and More.

Customer Reviews

Finally!5
Finally!
A straightforward book about pests and beneficial insects for gardeners. I have looked for a book like this for twenty years!

GOOD BUG, BAD BUG has great pictures and brilliant information about each pest, including what their damage looks like, what plants they attack, how to prevent attacks, and how to control attacks organically. Better yet, it has an equally awesome section for beneficial insects, with pictures, detailed information, and tips on how to attract them and keep them in your garden.
With a great introduction and a very useful glossary, and spiral bound to last a long time, this book just plain ROCKS.

Good Bug, Bad Bug, Good Book5
I have always found Jessica Walliser's gardening books to be so useful, but this one takes the prize. The photos of the bugs--good and bad--and what their damage looks like is invaluable when trying to figure out what course of action to take in your garden. I took this book out to my garden and flipped through its pages looking for a picture that matched my plant damage--flea beetles! And again--cucumber beetles! I feel like not only am I learning to identify insects, but I am better managing my vegetable garden, organically. Jessica's advice for "Live biological controls" and "Preventive actions" and "Organic product controls" for each pest tell you exactly what to do when something is attacking your plants. I highly recommend this book for any gardener wanting to learn, before reaching for the spray bottle.

easy identifier5
Listening to Jessica Walters each weekend on her radio show has rewarded all of us gardeners, horticulturalists, naturalists and biologists with quite ample information on growing organically plants whether for ornament, food or lawn. This full-color-illustrated and short book will help one easily identify the most common insects and bugs deleterious to one's landscaping and to control them organically, in many instances with the beneficial, predatory insects or bugs. This book is not intended to be a field guide. Rather, it is a convenient guide to be used by the gardener. The pages are laminated, thereby encouraging taking this book directly into the garden without fear of water or soil damaging its pages.