Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War

Author/Contributor(s):	Lockwood, Jeffrey A
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	05/13/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Six-Legged Soldiers offers a brilliant portrait of the many weirdly creative, truly frightening, and ultimately powerful ways in which insects have been used as weapons of war, terror, and torture. Beginning in prehistoric times and building toward a near and disturbing future, the reader is taken on a journey of innovation and depravity. Award-winning science writer Jeffrey A. Lockwood begins with the development of "bee bombs" in the ancient world and ranges up to the recent threat by ecoterrorists to release the notorious Medfly into California's crops.