Good Bugs for Your Garden

Good Bugs for Your Garden
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Publisher : Algonquin Books
Total Pages : 73
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ISBN-10 : 9781565127470
ISBN-13 : 1565127471
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Good Bugs for Your Garden by : Allison Mia Starcher

Download or read book Good Bugs for Your Garden written by Allison Mia Starcher and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1995-01-05 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who gardens knows how snails, aphids, scale insects, and caterpillars can damage vegetables, flowers, shrubs, and trees. But not many of us know that ground beetles eat caterpillars, not plants; that dragonflies feed on mosquitoes; that parasitic wasps prey on tomato hornworms. In this delightful guide to the world of beneficial insects, Starcher, an artist and avid gardener, shows us how to identify the "good guys" and encourage them to reside in our gardens. "Altogether delightful."--Newark Star-Ledger; "A fact-filled, charmingly illustrated guide."--American Bookseller. A GARDEN BOOK CLUB selection.


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