Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects by Amy StewartMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Most of this short work is the Latin names of a pest, a witty paragraph of its pestilential effects that could fit on a gum wrapper and then a "Meet the Family" section with overview of related bugs. The overall feel is a compendium of trivia: unsynthesized knowledge on the Insect world and similar "bugs" from arthropods to earthworms. Longer pieces are more interesting, such as the origin of over-rated brown recluse fears, the actuality of urticating hairs in tarantulas and the most insidious of parasites and poison arrow compounds.
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