That fiddler could be the perfect pesticide, luring pests to their deaths while improving the environment for everyone else.
Pesticides kill insects, weeds, fungi, rodents and other unwanted organisms.
They have given us control over such once-fearful diseases as typhus, malaria and yellow fever. Atlantic Canadians continue to use them to protect potato fields, forests, rosebushes and Fido. If they are not used carefully and conservatively, they can seriously damage the environment. It also suggests some alternatives you can use around your own home garden. This publication deals only with the environmental aspects of pesticides.