02225cam a2200301 4500 599079764 TxAuBib 20210421120000.0 110128s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011003629 9781565129603 1565129601 (OCoLC)662397834 DNAL/DLC DLC YDX BTCTA YDXCP UPZ IH7 YAM VP@ KEQ TxAuBib rda TxAuBib Stewart, Amy. Wicked bugs : the louse that conquered Napoleon's army & other diabolical insects / Amy Stewart ; etchings and drawings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011. xiii, 271 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. 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. 20210421. Arachnida. Insects. Insect pests. Morrow-Cribbs, Briony.