Wicked bugs : the louse that conquered Napoleon's army & other diabolical insects / Amy Stewart ; etchings and drawings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 271 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN: 9781565129603; 1565129601; 9781616200633 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions); 1616200634 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)Subject(s): Insect pests | ArachnidaGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 632/.7 LOC classification: SB931 | .S83 2011Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 632 Ste (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844500027111 |
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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.
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.
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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