Dealing with Pests at Home

Pesticides on your food

What's On My Food? PAN's easily searchable database linking USDA pesticide residue data on 87 foods with the toxicology for each chemical.  

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)

Controlling Ants in Your House from the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District

Bees and wasps

Yellowjackets from Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides; and

Yellowjackets 101 from Our Water Our World (Help with PDF files)

Cockroaches

Cockroaches from University of CA "Pest Notes" (Help with PDF files)

Fleas

Keeping Fleas Off Your Pets and Out of Your Yard from the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District

Managing Fleas Without Poisons from Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (Help with PDF files)

Fleas from University of California IPM Online

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: The Helpful Hunters from the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District

Termites

Dampwood 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)