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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) |  | Author: Jessica Walliser
Publisher: St. Lynn's Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 44,190
Media: Spiral-bound
Pages: 90
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0976763192
Dewey Decimal Number: 595.7163
EAN: 9780976763192
ASIN: 0976763192
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Product Description
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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 Good Bug, Bad Bug, Good Book June 28, 2008
goat girl (Nicholasville, KY)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
Finally! May 24, 2008
AS King (USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
Aphids, Bettles and Cabbageworms - Oh My! How to Handle Garden Pests Organically December 10, 2008
Victoria Klein (West Hartford, CT, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Being a gardener has never been easier and more difficult. While planting and pruning is still as simple as ever, prolific plumes of pests are commonplace. What's a dirt lover to do!?
The eco-answer has arrived with Good Bug, Bad Bug by Jessica Walliser. Printed on water-proofed, laminated pages and wire-bound, Good Bug, Bad Bug is written in easy to understand language. You can quickly identify invasive and beneficial insects. Walliser provides expert organic advice on how to attract the good guys and manage the bad guys without toxic chemicals.
From container gardens to acre-sized plots, Good Bug, Bad Bug is the perfect reference guide for every grower. Thanks to climate change, pests are invading regions they aren't native to. That means more destruction and increased confusion. Walliser's approach is simple and green: get rid of the bad ones and encourage the good ones to stick around. Color pictures, an informative introduction, glossary, and product directory round of the books' awesome qualities.
easy identifier May 11, 2008
Donald Kerr (Turtle Creek, Pa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
GREAT product, fast shipping August 22, 2008
M. kemp
This is a Great Book on bugs, a must have for all Gardeners
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