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PMG Bookshelf: Insects and Pest Management
Virginia Cooperative Extension
2007 Pest Management Guides
Virginia Cooperative Extension offers three pest management guides, available online or by mail order. For more details, visit the links below. The three guides cover: Field Crops; Home Grounds and Animals; and Horticultural and Forest Crops.
Click here to access VCE's 2007 Pest Management Guides online in .pdf format or to find ordering information.
Click here to go to Virginia Cooperative Extension at Virginia Tech.
Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs
Whitney Cranshaw
Princeton University Press, 2004
“Here's a sobering statistic: there are more than 100,000 species of insects and related garden pests in North America, and to gardeners it must often seem that the vast majority of them are eating, crawling, and flitting their way through treasured plants and flowers. Knowing what's doing the damage is more than half the battle in winning the pest-control war, and to that end Cranshaw has developed an impressive, encyclopedic guide to identifying everything from acorn weevils to zebra caterpillars. Understanding the way gardeners think, Cranshaw has logically organized the information according to the type of damage inflicted. . . Methods of controlling insect populations, in-depth discussions of beneficial insects, a comprehensive at-a-glance appendix of common plant-insect associations, and more than 1,400 color photos make this a marvel among insect identification manuals.” (Booklist)
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