Rodale's Color Handbook of Garden Insects

by Anna Carr

Book Overview

Hundreds of annotated color photographs aid in the identification of common North American insects and describe their life cycles, feeding habits, host plants, and natural predators. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878574603
• ISBN13: 9780878574605
• Release Date: June 1983
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Good reference book

This book is a great reference! However the are some caveats... it has been awhile since it was last published... lighting gasoline in a trench or pouring creosote in the trench for control of armyworms is effective but not recommended (nor good for the environment), but at least she gives other options for control than to spray every caterpillar with Bt as so many other organic gardening books do. I love her recommendations using a molases/bran slurry. Control measures like those can be effective and for the most part have been lost. The pictures are so very helpful,too. She has the egg, immature and adult stage for almost every pest she lists. Very good reference.