Good Bugs for Your Garden by Allison Mia Starcher
	List Price:   $10.95 Unit Price:   $8.76 You Save:   $2.19 (20%) ISBN-10:   156512071X ISBN-13:   9781565120716 Publisher:   Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Category:   Agriculture Pub. Date:   January 1995 Pages:   72 Format:   Trade Cloth
Awards
2004  Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award  Nominee/Honoree  2005  Volunteer State Book Award  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
BENEFICIAL INSECTS GARDEN PESTS
Description/Notes
Developed with the assistance of entomologists, Starcher's book tells gardeners which plants and habitats attract the beneficial insects and helps them recognize them when they appear. The author's ink-and-watercolor illustrations are both accurate and infused with personality and charm. Glossary. 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.