PEST MANAGEMENT
AND CONTROL OVERVIEW
Table of Contents
Chapters 1-10
of
"The Best Control"
by Stephen Tvedten

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Table of Contents

CANCER PREVENTION

Why 99% is Not Good Enough

Chapters 1-10 OVERVIEW 

Chapter 11 - Things Grandma Probably Used for Pests

Chapter 12-13 - Synthetic Pesticide Poisons

Chapter 14 - Nothing but Ants

Chapter 15-17 - Lice, bed bugs and more

Chapter 18 - Fleas.

Chapter 19 - Ticks and Mites?

Chapter 20-21 - Bees, Wasps, Hornets and more

Chapter 22 - MOSQUITOES 

Chapter 23 - Spiders

Chapter 24-25 - SCORPIONS

Chapter 26 - Help!  Roaches

Chapter 27 - Help!  Something is eating my clothes!

Chapter 28 - So What's hiding in your stored food ?

Chapter 29 - Crickets

Chapter 30 - Flies

Chapter 31 - Beetles, Mites and more

Chapter 32 - Rodents and other Vertebrate Pests 

Chapter 33 - Bats

Chapter 34 -  Birds

Chapter 35 - Termites

Chapter 36- Safe Lawn and Garden Maintenance
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

CHAPTER 1
EARTH DAY - April 22, 1994 Page 2
ADDENDUM Page 6
TOXICOLOGY Page 10

CHAPTER 2 
              PEST MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OVERVIEW Page 12 
              WHAT ARE PESTS? Page 12 
              METHODS OF PEST CONTROL Page 12 
              STYLES OF PEST CONTROL Page 13 
              INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS Page 15 
              JUST ONE CASE FOR IPM: RESISTANCE Page 16 
              THE MAIN REASON FOR IPM: HEALTH PROBLEMS Page 17 
              SUMMARY AND SOS Page 18 
CHAPTER 3 
              WHAT IS IT? Page 19 
              METAMORPHOSIS Page 24 
              DAMAGES Page 26 
CHAPTER 4 
              ARTHROPODS OF PUBLIC HEALTH IMPORTANCE Page 27 
              PICTORIAL KEYS Page 27 
CHAPTER 5 
              INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT Page 189 
              EQUIPMENT OVERVIEW Page 192 
              VACUUMS Page 192 
              HAND-HELD COMPRESSED AIR SPRAYERS Page 193 
              CANNED INSECTICIDES Page 194 
              CANNED AEROSOL PESTICIDES Page 194 
              CANNED PRESSURIZED LIQUID SPRAYS Page 195 
              DUSTERS Page 195 
              POWER DUSTERS Page 195 
              TRAPS AND BAIT STATIONS Page 196 
              EQUIPMENT SUMMARY Page 196 
              IPM SUMMARY Page 197 
              FINAL IPM COMMENT Page 198 
              A RECENT NCAMP EVALUATION OF FEDERAL 
                       "IPM" PRACTICES Page 198 
CHAPTER 6
              THE INSPECTION Page 199 
              LOCATING AND MONITORING PESTS Page 200 
              TOOLS FOR INSPECTION Page 200 
              EXTERIOR INSPECTION Page 200 
              SOME WATER SOURCES Page 201 
              SOME FOOD SOURCES Page 202 
              INTERIOR INSPECTION Page 203 
              ATTIC INSPECTION Page 204 
              CRAWLSPACE/BASEMENT INSPECTION Page 204 
              SHED AND GARAGE INSPECTIONS Page 205 
              SOME SPECIFIC INSPECTION HINTS Page 206 
              BUILDING EXTERIOR ABOVE GROUND LEVEL Page 206 
              INSIDE THE LIVING AREA AND ATTIC Page 209 
              INSPECTION VS. MONITORING Page 218 
              MORE PESTICIDE POISON CONTAMINATION PROBLEMS Page 220 
CHAPTER 7 
              TYPICAL PLAN & INSPECTION REPORTS Page 221 
              PTA PESTICIDE POSITION STATEMENT Page 236 
              AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY PESTICIDE WARNING Page 236 
CHAPTER 8 
              DETECTION, MONITORING DEVICES & THRESHOLD LIMITS Page 237 
              PESTICIDE CONTROL SERVICES CAUTION Page 244 
CHAPTER 9 
              HABITAT MODIFICATION & INCOMING GOODS INSPECTION Page 245 
              HOW TO BEGIN TO CHANGE THE CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE Page 247 
              VACUUMING NOTES Page 250 
              EXCLUSION Page 251 
              PEST EXCLUSION MATERIALS Page 251 
              INCOMING MATERIAL INSPECTIONS Page 253 
              WAYS SOME PESTS GAIN ENTRY INTO BUILDINGS Page 254 
CHAPTER 10 
              LAWS AND REGULATIONS Page 255
              APPLICATOR CERTIFICATION Page 256 
              CLASSIFICATIONS Page 256 
              FEDERAL PESTICIDE LAWS Page 257 
              THE FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND 
                      RODENTICIDE ACT (FIFRA) Page 257 
              STATE, TRIBAL AND LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS Page 258
              SUMMARY Page 258 
              PESTICIDE POISON NOTE Page 259 
              MORE ON THE HEALTH PROBLEMS/RISKS OF 
                     SYNTHETIC PESTICIDE POISONS 
 

 

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