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Wicked bugs : the louse that conquered Napoleon's army & other diabolical insects
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Wicked bugs : the louse that conquered Napoleon's army & other diabolical insects

Author: Amy Stewart; Briony Morrow-Cribbs
Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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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.
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Amy Stewart; Briony Morrow-Cribbs
ISBN: 9781565129603 1565129601 9781616200633 1616200634
OCLC Number: 662397834
Description: xiii, 271 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Details: Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 6646 KB).
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.
Responsibility: Amy Stewart ; etchings and drawings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs.

Abstract:

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.

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