American pests : the losing war on insects from colonial times to DDT / James E. McWilliams.

From the Publisher: The world of insects is one we only dimly understand. Yet from using arsenic, cobalt, and quicksilver to kill household infiltrators to employing the sophisticated tools of the Orkin Man, Americans have fought to eradicate the "bugs" they have learned to hate. Inspired...

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Main Author: McWilliams, James E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
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