Readers will find this book honest, friendly, humorous, concise, practical, and environmentally sensitive. It will help them solve most common household pest problems with an absolute minimum amount of insecticides and entertain them with anecdotes about the secret lives of these sometimes all too ubiquitous co-inhabitants of the planet. Common pests covered are: carpenter ants, carpet beetles, clothes moths, cockroaches, fleas, fruit flies, head lice, house flies, indian meal moths, mice and rats, silverfish, spiders, sugar ants, termites, wasps and yellow jackets.