Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the New Edition -- Introduction -- Incredible Insects -- The Toxic Tide -- Part 1 Tiny Game Hunting in the Home -- The Folly of Pesticides -- Home, Toxic Home -- Home, Safe Home -- Quitting Pesticides for Good and Disposing of Them -- Common Pests -- Ants -- Bed Bugs -- Bees -- Clothes Moths and Carpet Beetles -- Cockroaches -- Fleas -- Flies -- Houseplant Pests -- Lice -- Mosquitoes -- Pantry Pests -- Rats and Mice -- Silverfish -- Spiders -- Termites and Wood-Boring Beetles -- Ticks, Chiggers, and Mites -- Occasional Invaders -- Asian Lady Beetles -- Boxelder Bugs -- Centipedes -- Cluster Flies -- Crickets -- Earwigs -- Moths -- Scorpions -- Part 2 Tiny Game Hunting in the Garden -- The Healthy Garden -- The Fallacy of Pesticides -- Better Soil for Stronger Plants -- Compost -- Earthworms -- Mulch -- Organic Fertilizers -- Cover Crops -- Companion Planting -- The Tactics of Tiny Game Hunting in the Garden -- Handpicking -- Hosing -- Traps -- Barriers -- Soaps -- Horticultural Oils -- Dusts -- Biological Controls -- Botanicals -- Repellents -- Allies in the Air and on the Ground -- Bats -- Birds -- Lizards -- Snakes -- Toads and Frogs -- Good Bugs -- Mail Order Mercenaries -- Green Lacewings -- Ladybugs -- Mealybug Destroyers -- Parasitic Nematodes -- Parasitic Wasps -- Parasites of Flies -- Predatory Mites -- Good Bugs Gratis -- "True" Bugs -- Beetles -- A Few Good Flies -- Distinguished Native Beneficials -- Antlions -- Damselflies -- Dragonflies -- Fireflies -- Honorably Discharged -- Praying Mantises -- Garden Pests -- Chompers -- Cabbage Loopers and Imported Cabbageworms -- Colorado Potato Beetles -- Cucumber Beetles -- Cutworms -- Fall Webworms and Eastern Tent Caterpillars -- Flea Beetles -- Grasshoppers -- Gypsy Moths -- Japanese Beetles -- Mexican Bean Beetles.

Tomato Hornworms -- Root Destroyers -- June Beetles -- Nematodes -- Root Maggots -- Wireworms -- Slimers -- Slugs and Snails -- Suckers -- Aphids -- Leafhoppers -- Mealybugs -- Scale Insects -- Spider Mites -- Thrips -- "True" Bugs -- Whiteflies -- Tunnelers -- Borers -- Codling Moths and Apple Maggots -- Corn Earworms -- Plum Curculios -- Friend or Foe? -- Centipedes and Millipedes -- Earwigs -- Opossums -- Sowbugs and Pillbugs -- Yellow Jackets and Wasps -- Critter Control -- Diggers -- Gophers -- Moles -- Foragers -- Deer -- Dogs -- Rabbits -- Raccoons -- Skunks -- Squirrels -- Resources and Mail Order -- Select Bibliography -- Index.