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.