About the Author

Jessica Walliser is co-author of Grow Organic (St. Lynn’s Press, 2007).She has a degree in ornamental horticulture and writes "The Good Earth" garden column for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. She is co-host of "The Organic Gardeners" Sunday morning show on KDKA radio, Pittsburgh (65,000 listeners in a 3-state area). Jessica is a regular contributor to many national and regional gardening publications, and lectures widely at garden clubs and botanic gardens across the country.

Reviews

"An entomological tour de force. Congratulations, Jessica Walliser, on your solid treatment of the insect denizens of the garden." Dr. Paul Reed Hepperly, Research and Training Manager, The Rodale Institute

"This exciting new field guide – from one of organic gardening's most exciting young pioneers – is practical, timely and innovative, all in one." Paul Tukey, HGTV co-host and publisher of People, Places and Plants magazine; author of The Organic Lawn Care Manual"Consider this book an important gardening tool. Whatever you do, don't leave it on the shelf!" Jeff Lowenfels, author of Teaming with Microbes: a Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

April 21, 2014... Got a new book last week called “Good Bug, Bad Bug,” by Jessica Walliser. It has pictures which are fabulous when identifying bugs. Descriptions alone just don’t cut it. Walliser describes 27 pests and 14 beneficials as well as having a glossary and a source directory. “Source directory,” you ask? Yes, because the best part of this little show-and-tell book is every pest has a picture, a description of their life cycle, what plants they like, which beneficials like to eat them (otherwise known as biological controls) and preventative actions that can be taken (or bought). Hence, the source directory. Ms. Walliser is the co-author of “Grow Organic” and her preventative actions range from cut the leaf or damaged part off to using non-caustic botanical oils and neem on the affected plants. Using this book helped me identify some pests as well as some beneficials in my own garden. Walliser is very complimentary to ladybugs as they consume most of the larvae of pests before they get to be adult problems. My ladybugs will be making their mail order appearance sometime this week.
*Good Bug, Bad Bug*