Best Agricultural Insecticides & Pesticides Books of 2025

The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: 9 Books in 1 is the ultimate guide for anyone looking to start a vegetable garden or take their gardening to the next level. This comprehensive guide includes nine individual books covering all aspects of vegetable gardening, from soil management to pest control to companion planting and more. It also includes bonus resources, such as "Creating Your Own Complete Organic Fertilizer," "Growing Hydroponic Vegetable Garden at Home," and "Seed Saving Guide." This book is a valuable resource for both beginner and experienced gardeners alike, offering practical tips and techniques that are easy to understand and apply. Overall, it's a must-read for anyone interested in creating a beautiful and bountiful garden.

Deer-Resistant Design by Karen Chapman offers a creative and practical solution for gardeners who are struggling with deer problems. The book showcases real gardens across North America that have succeeded in coexisting with wildlife through intentional design choices. The author also shares a list of deer-resistant plants that are perfect for a deer-challenged garden. The book is lushly illustrated and filled with inspiring design ideas and practical advice. It is a must-read for anyone who is gardening in deer country. Overall, Deer-Resistant Design is an excellent resource for gardeners who want to create beautiful gardens that thrive despite the presence of deer.

The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook by Susan Mulvihill is an essential resource for both new and experienced gardeners who want to manage common pests without using synthetic chemical pesticides. Mulvihill provides easy-to-use charts for identifying pests based on the damage they cause and their physical appearance. The book offers DIY pest-control projects, up-to-date information on the best natural products, physical pest-control tricks, and tips for managing pests with traps and barriers. Overall, this book is an excellent guide for gardeners who want to preserve beneficial insects and pollinators while keeping pest populations in check.

The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook is an essential guide for any gardener looking to identify and manage diseases and other common problems on edible plants. The author, Susan Mulvihill, provides all-natural solutions to gardening woes in an organized, problem-by-problem manner. This book is a quick and useful reference for both beginner and expert gardeners, featuring solutions to bacterial and fungal diseases, animal pests, and physiological disorders common to the veggie garden. The extensive quick-reference chart included in the book is particularly helpful for identification and solutions. Overall, this book is an excellent companion for Susan’s previous book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, and a must-have for any organic gardener.

The Safe and Effective Use of Pesticides is a comprehensive guidebook that provides detailed information on selecting, using, handling, storing, and disposing of pesticides. It emphasizes worker protection, prevention of groundwater contamination, protection of endangered species and wildlife, and reduction of environmental problems. The book contains new formats that make it easier to study for the DPR exams and updated information on nematodes, vertebrates, and pathogens. The book is a recommended study material for all categories of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation's exams. Overall, this revised edition is a significant update to the 2nd Edition and a valuable reference guide for anyone involved in pest control.

This textbook, Population Health and Its Integration into Advanced Nursing Practice, provides a comprehensive overview of population health theory and practical tools for implementing principles into practice. The book is divided into three parts, covering global population health, key issues and populations, and care providers and techniques. The editors have brought together nationally known experts on their respective topics to contribute to the chapters. The book is a valuable resource for advanced practice students in population and public health, and those in the nursing profession seeking to expand their knowledge. Overall, this book is an excellent guide to understanding and implementing population health concepts into nursing practice.

Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 2: Cultivation techniques is a comprehensive guide that focuses on improving the cultivation of wheat at each step in the value chain. With contributions from top scientists, this book reviews research on variety selection, seed and root growth, water and nutrient management, sustainable intensification, and organic cultivation. The final part covers ways of improving wheat cultivation in the developing world. This book is a standard reference for cereal scientists in universities, government, research centers, and companies involved in wheat cultivation. Overall, these volumes promise to be a standard reference for wheat scientists worldwide, thanks to their breadth of coverage, distinguished editor, and international expertise of the contributing authors.

Texas Bug Book is a comprehensive guide to identifying and controlling insects in Texas. The book offers detailed instructions on how to identify and understand the life cycle of different insects, mites, snails, slugs, nematodes, and other critters. The authors, Howard Garrett and Malcolm Beck, also provide organic remedies for infestations of pest insects. The book includes striking color photos and black-and-white drawings to help you identify each bug. Overall, this book is a must-have for gardeners and anyone interested in organic gardening practices.

The book "Tortricid Pests: Their Biology, Natural Enemies and Control" is a comprehensive guide to understanding the Tortricidae family and its impact on agriculture and forestry. The book covers everything from taxonomy and physiology to chemical and biological control methods. It is an essential resource for scientists in research institutions, universities, and experimental stations. The inclusion of entries for synonyms referring to the species names used in this volume makes it easier to navigate the scientific literature on Tortricidae. Overall, this book is a valuable addition to the field of agricultural insecticides and pesticides literature.

This book is a field and laboratory guide to diagnosing hemp and cannabis diseases and pest problems. It presents real disease cases encountered during production and explains methods of diagnosis, both in the field and in the lab, in order to find out the cause(s). The book provides over 300 color photographs accompanied by a wealth of disease information, including field observations, unique symptoms, microscopic details, and molecular data. It's an essential read for anyone interested in learning about Cannabis crop diseases, for crops grown in the field, and in indoor production facilities.