The most expensive pest in your house is the one you treated wrong.

Both. If you own a home and want to handle pest problems the right way — or just understand what your pest company is doing — this book walks you through it. If you’re a new technician, it’s the field manual nobody gave you on day one.

Some of it, yes — and the book tells you exactly which jobs are safe to handle yourself, which products to use, and how to use them correctly. It also tells you clearly when to stop and call a licensed professional. Chapter 4 starts with the most important rule: the label is the law.

Chapter 12 covers bed bugs in detail — how to confirm you actually have them, why most DIY treatments fail, what preparation looks like before a professional treatment, and how to avoid bringing them home in the first place. Bed bugs are one of the pests where the book will save you the most money by keeping you from wasting it on things that don’t work.

Chapter 19 is entirely about termites — how to spot the early signs, the difference between subterranean and drywood, what a real inspection looks like, and how to talk to a termite company without getting upsold. Catching termites early is one of the biggest money-savers in the book.

The complete field guide — 36 chapters across ten parts, 243 pages — on your screen the moment you pay, in two files: a PDF and an EPUB. Read it on a phone, a tablet, or a computer, send the EPUB straight to a Kindle, or print it out at home.

The field guide is digital — you download it right after you pay, no waiting on the mail. If you like paper in your hands, print any chapter, or the whole thing, on your home printer.

No. You pay once. Future editions and new chapters come to you free.

Very. Chapter 30 is specifically about apartments and multifamily housing — what’s your responsibility, what’s the landlord’s, how to document a pest problem, and what to do when management won’t act. Plus, half the pest chapters apply to any living space, rented or owned.