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

by Loren Nancarrow, Janet Hogan Taylor

This comprehensive guide to controlling pests in your home and garden (and even on your pets!) is packed with simple and effective ways to avoid chemical pesticides that can kill off beneficial insects and keep useful reptiles and birds from making anyone's yard their home. Let nature's balance work to your advantage with plants that attract helpful insects and repel destructive ones, all-purpose pest repellants like garlic and chile peppers, and beneficial creatures like bats, green lacewings, hummingbirds, and lizards. Includes safe methods for eliminating ants, roaches, and rodents; ways to get rid of fleas and other critters that plague pets; and even a buying guide to the beneficial organisms you want in your garden (whether you know it or not).

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Reference

160 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1996

Reviews

[Brittany (Bentley) · Rating 1 out of 5]

Old book. Please dont feed garlic to your dogs to prevent ticks. The ingestion of garlic for dogs causes conditions called hemolytic anemia, Heinz body anemia, and methemoglobinemia which are all manifestation of damage to red blood cells.

[Lynne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book very informative.

[Kathy (McDowell) Miller · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book failed to mention in what regions these pests are found. They also failed to mention birds as a natural predator of many insects, larvae, and caterpillars. I would not recommend.

[Denise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good info.

[Ksrugel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Certainly not a literary tome but when I learn stuff and actually use it, getting the ants out of my petunias, it is always a thumbs up.

[Tracey · Rating 1 out of 5]

Gardening/organic pest control. I would expect a lot more from a revised reprint. While it was well organized, fairly comprehensive, and contained some interesting facts (legless lizards are distinguishable from snakes by their moveable eyelids!), it was not all that helpful with diagnosis--only one small drawing of an adult specimen was given per pest and no pictures of what the damage might look like or what the bug looks like in its other stages (larvae, eggs, etc.). The remedies for controlling each pest were OK (I appreciate the warnings for the less-safe measures) but I feel like if I knew what the bug was I could easily look up natural remedies online anyway.

Also, the book stated that the smallest lizard was a 3-inch-long gecko, and I believe it's a pygmy chameleon (tinier than your fingertip).

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Better for those who have homes rather than apartment dwellers but there is a part to deal with things like mice and roaches.

[Caroline Muir · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unfortunately, this very short book didn't include much that I didn't already know. It relies heavily on providing lists of internet links, many of which I was already familiar with.