All rights reserved. Many a medieval army catapulted beehives or hornets' nests over a castle's ramparts to drive out the defenders. 49 b&w illus. The Romans' siege of a desert fortress ended abruptly when buckets of scorpions were dumped on their heads. . Lockwood tells how the Japanese used
- Title : Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
- Author : Jeffrey A. Lockwood
- Rating : 4.52 (489 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-10-29
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 400 Pages
- Asin : 0199733538
- Language : English
All rights reserved. Many a medieval army catapulted beehives or hornets' nests over a castle's ramparts to drive out the defenders. 49 b&w illus. The Romans' siege of a desert fortress ended abruptly when buckets of scorpions were dumped on their heads. . Lockwood tells how the Japanese used Chinese civilians as human guinea pigs in their program to weaponize plague and other diseases. And Lockwood explores charges by the North Koreans and Fidel Castro that America has called out insect troops on occasion as well. From Publishers Weekly Few people think of flies, scorpions or potato bugs as weapons of war, but entomologist Lockwood (Grasshopper Dreaming), winner of a Pushcart Prize and a James Burroughs Award, details in this fascinating study how creepy crawlies have been used against the enemy since antiquity. Fortunately, as the author points out, insects aren't very cooperative soldiers, and using them to deliver diseases is much easier said than done. The Vietcong used a version of this trick, setting off small explosives near huge beehives when American soldiers walked by. Both sDespite the title, many of the people are not cancer survivors -- some currently have cancer (or a recurrence), some are people who were close to someone who died of cancer, some are caregivers, etc. :-). Zhang!. I had never heard of many of these stories, or only saw them in passing. It does contain useful advice for collecting and applying cultural information about your users.. There is also an overview of some radical solutions that communities have resorted to in the past to address plumbing problems. If you're a fan of all three topics like I am, this book is a compelling review of insects as weapons.. In "The Quickening" one finds priceless instructions on how to sharpen your inner knowing, the intuitiveness that will guide you at every moment of your existence, how to avoid being sucked into another's negative reality and build a life and a you that pleases you. That it was an acquihire with multi-million dollar payouts for the three founders shows just how overheated the tech market is. Just focus on how the situation makes you feel and turn your energy from draining to collecting.Would I buy this book for myself? Yes I would. But I don't want to give anything away for anyone who wants to read this book, so I will say no more.If you are a fan of Nicholas Sparks you will probably love this. Many of the evasion techniques are themselves alertable!Apart from thaThe Cold War saw secret government operations involving the mass release of specially developed strains of mosquitoes on an unsuspecting American public--along with the alleged use of disease-carrying and crop-eating pests against North Korea and Cuba. He explores the horrific programs of insect weaponization during World War II: airplanes designed to drop plague-infested fleas, facilities rearing tens of millions of crop-devouring beetles, and prison camps where doctors tested disease-carrying lice on inmates. Lockwood reveals how easy it would be to use insects in warfare and terrorism today, pointing to how domestic eco-terrorists in 1989 extorted government officials and wreaked economic and political havoc by threatening to release the notorious Medfly into California's crops.
A remarkable story of human ingenuity--and brutality--Six-Legged Soldiers is the first comprehensive look at the use of insects as weapons of war, from ancient times to the present day.
. Lockwood, an award-winning science
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