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Title: Texas Bug Book : The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by C. Malcolm Beck, John Howard Garrett, Gwen Gage ISBN: 0-292-70869-6 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Worthless Reference Book
Comment: My wife and I agree this book is worthless as a reference book, but it does have some pretty pictures. Great as a coffee table book, but you will never use it as a reference book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not worthy of the trees that had to die.
Comment: This behemothian piece of excrement is a slap in the face of any ligitimate work on insects in general, or growing organic gardens specifically. The book is fraught with inaccuracies and outright misinformation. Case in point, the kissing bug did not get its name from biting people when it accidently flies into your face, it got it from its habit of biting sleeping people on the lips. This information is not critical to the book, but it exemplifies the slothful approach to gathering information the authors obviously used to write this book. The "Stories" are nothing more than opinionted drivel, although some of them are slightly humorous. The authors have no credentials in Entomology (they state that in the Introduction) and although they claim to have consulted "...many other books and research papers..." on the subject, nowhere did I find a reference to such information when something other than common fact was stated (as is necessary in REAL science books), such as aphids "...help to eliminate unfit plants." That is the single most ludicrous thing I have heard in a decade or more! Fortunately for me I didn't buy this waste of sawdust or recycled paper (whatever the case may be), but obviously some did because this "thing" is now in its fourth printing. The one good thing about this book is that the authors advocate the use non-chemical control. Believe me, save your money, you can get much better, less opinionated, advice from a simple Internet search.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bugs at their best
Comment: I never knew bugs could abe so interesting. The authors combine factual information on insects with entertaining stories of buggy encounters. This book reaches my kids on a level they can understand (they are 8 - 12 years old), yet provides me with plenty of good factual information that helps with gardening. The kids were thrilled to discover that the funny things they had seen "growing" on the fence were actually lacewing eggs. We are eagerly anticipaing their hatching. I also appreciated the recipes for home-made, natural insecticides.
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Title: Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening: The Total Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Other Edible Plants the Natural Way by J. Howard Garrett, C. Malcolm Beck, Malcolm Beck, Howard J. Garrett ISBN: 0884158551 Publisher: Gulf Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Howard Garrett's Plants for Texas by Howard Garrett ISBN: 0292727887 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: A Field Guide to Texas Snakes (Texas Monthly Field Guides) by Alan Tennant, Joseph E. Forks, Gerard T. Salmon ISBN: 0877192774 Publisher: Gulf Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Howard Garrett's Texas Organic Gardening by J. Howard Garrett, Howard Garrett ISBN: 0884155056 Publisher: Gulf Publishing Pub. Date: 27 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Howard Garrett's Texas Trees by Howard Garrett ISBN: 0891230769 Publisher: National Book Network Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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