Six-Legged Soldiers Using Insects as Weapons of War

Six-Legged Soldiers reveals how insects have changed the course of warfare, from "bee bombs" in the Paleolithic period to insect weap-onization programs in World War II (including airplanes modified to drop plague-infested fleas, bombs designed to disperse cholera-coated flies, and prison camps where doctors infected inmates with disease-carrying lice). Six-Legged Soldiers paints a chilling portrait of the many weird-and ongoing-attempts to conscript insects for human combat. Book jacket.

Jeffrey A. Lockwood is Professor of Natural Sciences & Humanities at the University of Wyoming, where he teaches in the department of philosophy and in the MFA program in creative writing. His work has been included in the popular anthology Best American Science and Nature Writing, and he is winner of both a Pushcart Prize and the John Burroughs Award. He is the author of Grasshopper Dreaming: Reflections on Killing and Loving and Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier.