Wicked bugs : the louse that conquered Napoleon's army & other diabolical insects / Amy Stewart ; etchings and drawings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs.

Book

Stewart, Amy.

1st ed.

Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.

xiii, 271 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

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.

Insect pests.

Arachnida.

Morrow-Cribbs, Briony.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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