Dealing with Pests at Home

Pesticides on your food

Pocket Guide to Dietary Pesticide Exposure from the Organic Center (Help with PDF files) 

Ants

Solving Ant Problems Nonchemically from Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (Help with PDF files)

Least Toxic Control of Carpenter Ants from Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (Help with PDF files)

Got Ants? from the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District

Bees and wasps

Yellowjackets from Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (Help with PDF files)

Cockroaches

Sane Cockroach Management from Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (Help with PDF files)

Fleas

Fleas from the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District

Least Toxic Control of Fleas from Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (Help with PDF files)

Fleas from the University of California at Davis

Flies

Fruit flies from Iowa State University

House Flies from Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (Help with PDF files)

Rats and mice

Rats and Mice: A Rat and Mouse-free House from Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (Help with PDF files)

Spiders

Spiders from the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District

Termites

Drywood Termites from Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (Help with PDF files)

Subterranean Termites from Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (Help with PDF files)

General household alternatives

Our Water - Our World Website to assist consumers in managing home and garden pests without hazardous materials

Ask the Bugman! Environmentally Safe Ways to Control Household Pests (Book) by Richard Fagerlund

50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth (New 2008 edition: Issue #36: What's Bugging You? - PAN's chapter on ecological pest management at home and local action)