Wicked bugs : the louse that conquered Napoleon's army & other diabolical insects
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In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes-creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. Full description
Table of Contents:
- African bat bug
- She's just not that into you
- Asian giant hornet
- Assassin bug
- Bugs of war
- Bed bug
- Biting midge
- Black fly
- Black widow
- Stinging caterpillars
- Bombardier beetle
- Brazilian wandering spider
- Curse of the scorpion
- Brown marmorated stink bug
- Brown recluse
- Chigger mite
- Chigoe flea
- Have no fear
- Cockroach
- Colorado potato beetle
- The gardener's dirty dozen
- Corn rootworm
- Death-watch beetle
- Bookworms
- Deer tick
- Filth fly
- I've got you under my skin
- Formosan subterranean termite
- The ants go marching
- Giant centipede
- Mediterranean fruit fly
- Millipede
- Arrow poisons
- Mosquito
- Mountain pine beetle
- Nightcrawler
- The enemy within
- Oriental rat flea
- Paederus beetle
- Corpse-eaters
- Phylloxera
- Rocky Mountain locust
- Fear no weevils
- Sand fly
- Scabies mite
- What's eating you?
- Spanish fly
- Tarantula
- Tsetse fly
- Zombies.