Ruud Kleinpaste's Backyard Battlefield
Author(s): Ruud Kleinpaste
Backyard Battlefield is every gardener's essential reference guide to bugs. This book is packed with information and advice about common insects and invertebrates in your garden. It asks 'Do you really need to get rid of them?' And if you do, Ruud tells you how - suggesting a variety of options.In his inimitable and entertaining style, Ruud Kleinpaste describes many bugs, including codling moths, aphids, monarch butterflies, cicadas, ants, spittlebugs, passionvine hoppers, mantids, weta, grass grubs, snails, slugs, caterpillars, wasps, whitefly, spiders, blowflies, roaches and mosquitoes. Ruud's clear and colourful photos provide an easy aid to identification of the bugs in your backyard and further afield.
Product Information
Ruud Kleinpaste is the charismatic presenter of many TV programmes, notably Maggie's Garden Show and Ground Rules. He will be presenting a new TV show in 2005. He also does TV programmes with Natural History NZ for Discovery Channel etc; writes for Growing Today; is a trustee of Project Crimson, Kiwi Recovery and Books in Homes.
General Fields
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- : Random House
- : Random House
- : 0.0
- : 01 March 2005
- : 198x128mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ruud Kleinpaste
- : Paperback
- : very good
- : 175
- : Colour photographs