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Gahukar, Ruparao
Galaga (arcade game)
Gallai, Nicola
Gates, Bill and Melinda
Geisel, Theodore (Dr. Seuss)
Geoponika (agricultural practices book series)
giant water bug
Girault, Alexandre Arsène
Gmelin, Friedrich
God of Insects. See also Forcella, Lawrence (Lorenzo)
Goff, Lee
Goldin, Ryan
Goodyear, Dana
Gordon, David George
Gordon, Deborah
Gore, Al
Gorgas, William
Gorongosa National Park (Mozambique)
Gracer, David
Grammostola rosea (Chilean rose tarantula)
grasshoppers
Brachystola magna (pink grasshopper, aka plains lubber)
as food
long-horned grasshopper
protein content of
Great French Wine Blight
Greenberg, Bernard
ground-penetrating radar (GPR)
Gunma Prefecture (Japan)
Gunma-chan (prefecture mascot)
Gunma Insect World
Gutierrez, Nick
Hackenberg, Dave
Hall, Robert
Hamlet
Harlan, Harold
Harman, Jay
Harris, P. F.
Haskell, Neal
Hayes, Jerry
Heaven Is for Real (film)
Hebert, Paul
Heitkam, Patrick
Heliconius (butterflies genus). See also butterflies
Hellraiser (film)
Herodotus
Hesse-Honegger, Cornelia
Hicks, Edward
Hirst, Damien
Historia Insectorum (book, Ray)
History of Entomology (Smith, Mittler, and Smith)
Hoffman, Hunter
Hölldobler, Bert
Holt, Vincent M.
honey. See also bees
hornets
Hornets from Hell (documentary)
Howard, L. O.
Hoyt, Erich
Huber, François
Huntington, Timothy
infestations and insect epidemics
bedbugs
cockroach
mountain pine beetles
Infested Mind, The (Lockwood)
Insect Diversity (Samways)
insecticide. See pest control
Insectopedia (Raffles)
Introduction to Entomology, An (Kirby and Spence)
Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV)
James, Anthony
Jefferson, Thomas
Jiang, Wenxiao
June bugs
Justinian’s Flea (Rosen)
Kaiser, Frederick
Kaisinger, Julia
Kamen Rider (television series)
Kawahara, Akito
Kawecki, Tad
Kennedy, Michael
Kerria lacca (lac insect)
Kew Gardens
Kinnear, Greg
Klee, W. G.
Kobayashi, Noboyuki
Kochilas, Yannis
Koebele, Albert
konchu shonen (insect-loving kids)
Koppler, Sven
Krell, Frank
“La Cucaracha” (song)
lac insects
ladybugs
LaFayette, Carol
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste
Langstroth, Lorenzo
Latif, Tahmid
Latreille, Pierre André
Lazarus effect
Lazear, Jesse
leeches
Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van
Lepidoptera (insect order)
Life of the Bee, The (Maeterlinck)
Lindroth, Carl
Linnaeus, Carl
Lloyd, J. E.
Lockwood, Jeffrey
locusts
as food
plagues
Rocky Mountain locust
swarms
wing inertia
Logan, Jesse
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Losey, John
Lubbock, John
Macleay’s Spectre stick insect
Madsen, David
Maeterlinck, Maurice
maggots
malaria
Malpighi, Marcello
Marchalina hellenica (scale insect)
Markoe, Peter
Marrone, Pam
Martin, Daniella
Martinez, Gabriel
mating. See reproduction and mating
Mayhew, Henry
mealworms
Meckel, Lauren
Mecynorhina oberthuri (beetle). See also beetles
Mégnin, J. P.
Menzel, Peter
Merian, Maria Sibylla
Mermel, Elliot
Metarrhizium anisopliae (fungus)
Metchnikoff, Elie
micro air vehicles (MAVs)
milkweed
Millar, Constance
Miller, Henry
millipedes
Miyazaki, Hayao
Møller, Anders
Monk and the Honey Bee, The (documentary)
Monsanto
mosquitoes
Aedes aegypti (yellow fever mosquito)
Anopheles gambiae (African malaria mosquito)
and biomimetics
control of
and dengue fever
and malaria
OX513A (GM mosquito)
and slave trade
and West Nile virus
and yellow fever
and Yellow Fever Commission
and Zika virus
mothballs
Mothra (film)
moths
Agrius
bagworm moth
clingy moths
clothes moths
European corn borer
flour moths
as food
GM diamondback moth
Great Gray Dart moths
gypsy moths
Luna moths
nun moths
silk moths
tobacco hornworm moths
Motuweta isolate (tusked wetas)
mountain pine beetle
Mousseau, Timothy
Müller, Paul
Müllerian mimicry
Murphy, Jim
mushi (bug or insect)
Mushi-King (arcade/trading card game)
Mushimoiselle Giriko
Mushi-sha (Japanese beetle pet store)
myrmecology
Nabokov’s Butterflies (Boyd and Pyle)
namesake insects
Nan-Yao Su
Napoleon Bonaparte
National Health Surveillance Agency (Brazil)
National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS, Japan)
National Museum of Natural History (France)
Natural History Museum (London)
Natural History Museum (Los Angeles)
Naturalist’s Directory, The
Neduba extincta (Antioch Dunes shieldback katydid)
Neotrogla aurora (barklice)
neuroscience
New Observations on the Bee (Huber)
Niño, Elina
Nordhaus, Hannah
Nothomyrmecia macrops (primitive ant species)
Obama, Barack
Ohya, Eiji
Okochi, Jun
Olson, Jim
orders, insect
Coleoptera
Diptera
Hymenoptera
Lepidoptera
Ortus Sanitatis (natural history encyclopedia)
OX513A (GM mosquito). See also mosquitoes
Oxitec
Pachygnatha zappa (Frank Zappa spider) . See also spiders
paradichlorobenzene,
Paris green
Parke, Fred
Partridge, Amber
Payne, Jerry
Perry, Matthew
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pest control
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)
Cryonite
DDT
EcoVia
fumigation
government policy
history of
hydrocyanic acid gas (HCN)
insecticide resistance
integrated pest management (IPM)
Paris green
sterile insect technique (SIT)
Peucetia viridans (green lynx spider). See also spiders
Phaenicia sericata (green bottle fly). See also flies
Phase IV (film)
pheromones
ants
bees
beetles
cockroaches
tarantulas
Philip, Cornelius
pink bollworm
pinning insects
plagues
bubonic plague (Black Death)
crickets
locusts
Plague of Athens
Plague of Justinian
See also viruses and disease
Planet Ant (documentary)
Pliny the Elder
Pokémon (video game)
pollination
Poly-PEDAL Lab
Portia labiata (jumping spiders)
potato leafhoppers
Potter, Michael
praying mantises
Project Milkweed
Purchas, Samuel
Psuedomyrmex triplarinus (fire ants). See also ants
Pteroptyx (fireflies)
pyrethroid
pyrethrum
radio-frequency identification (RFID)
Raffles, Hugh
Ramaswamy, Sonny
Ramos-Elorduy, Julieta
Ratnieks, Francis
Rats, Lice and History (Zinsser)
Ray, John
Redi, Francesco
Redzepi, René
Reed, Walter
Renaissance
reproduction and mating
barklice
bedbugs
beetles
cockroaches
and conservation
crickets
dance flies
dragonflies
and evolution and mutation
Ex-situ (breed-and-release program)
and extinction
firebugs
fireflies
formicophilia
froghoppers
fruit flies
honeybees
ice worms
moths
praying mantises
spiders
STD
stick insects
tarantulas
wetas
Riley, C. V.,
RiSE (Robot in Scansorial Environments)
roaches. See cockroaches
RoboBee
RoboRoach
Rockefeller, David
Roltair, Henry
Rosen, William
Rossellini, Isabella
Rothschild, Miriam
Royal Entomological Society
royal jelly
Rozeboom, Lloyd
Sackville-West, Victoria
Saint-Vincent, Bory de
Salmonella (bacterium)
Samways, Michael
Sanford, Michelle
sandfly
Sasayama, Eri
Saturday Night Live: “Bug Off” skit
scaphism (ancient torture method)
Scaptia beyonceae (horse fly named for Beyoncé)
Schiffer, Claudia
Schmidt, Jason
Schmidt, Justin O.
Scholtz, Gerhard
Schultz, Ted
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Scientific Revolution
scorpions
Secoy, Diane
senses
sex. See reproduction and mating
Sex on Six Legs (Zuk)
Shain, Dan
Shannon, Raymond
Shark’s Paintbrush, The (Harman)
Shepardson, Daniel
Shockley, Marianne
Silent Spring (Carson)
silkworms
as food
and silk industry
Simandoa cave roaches. See also cockroaches
Six, Diana
Six-Legged Sex (Wangberg)
Slade, Glen
Smith, Adam
Smith, Allan
Smith, John B.
Snetsinger, Robert
Snowpiercer (film)
Sorkin, Lou
Southall, John
Souza, Paulo de
Specter, Michael
Spence, William
spiders
as food
Pachygnatha zappa (Frank Zappa spider)
Peucetia viridans (green lynx spider)
smuggling
wolf spider
See also tarantulas
Spilman, T. J.
Splat! (board game)
Stenos, Giorgos
sterile insect technique (SIT)
stick insects
Sting of the Wild, The (Schmidt)
stink bug
Strausfeld, Nicholas
Stylops kirbyi (twisted wing parasite named for William Kirby)
Styrofoam
Sun Tzu
Sung Tz’u
Swammerdam, Jan
Sweetness & Light (Ellis)
Tabashnik, Bruce
tarantulas
cost
curly-haired tarantulas
eradication and extinction
as food
Mexican redknee tarantulas
pinktoe tarantulas
reproduction and mating
and taxidermy
taxidermy. See also pinning insects
taxonomy
Taylor, Ronald
TechJect
Teleogryllus oceanicus (Oceanic field crickets). See also crickets
Tenebrio molitor (mealworm beetle). See also beetles
Tepedino, Karla
termites
control of
eusociality
as food
infestations
magnetic field sensitivity
thermoregulation
Thompson, F. Christian
Thucydides
ticks
Timema (stick insects). See also stick insects
Tokyo Bug-Eating Club
Tokoyo no Mushi (caterpillar)
Tomberlin, Jeff
Tomioka Silk Mill
transmission-control protocol (TCP)
Treatise of Buggs, A (Southall)
Trivellato, Guilherme
Tschinkel, Walter
Tsingerlioti, Lina
Tumor Paint
Turell, Mike
Ulke, Henry
Unger, Katharina
US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
US Forest Service
Van Huis, Arnold
vanEngelsdorp, Dennis
Varroa destructor (Varroa mite)
Vaughan, Mace
viruses and disease
arboviral diseases
arbovirus (arthropod-borne virus)
dengue fever
malaria
typhus
West Nile virus
Yellow Fever
Zika virus
See also epidemics
Von Eschen, Shannon
Waldbauer, Gilbert
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Wang, Rose
Wangberg, James
War on Bugs. See also pest control
Washington, George
wasps
chalcid wasps
cynipid wasps
encyrtid wasps
as food
Watanabe, Satoru
waxworms
Weis-Fogh, Torkel
West, Julian
West Nile virus
What Good Are Bugs? (Waldbauer)
Whitcomb, W. H.
Whittier, John Gre
enleaf
Wolbachia
Woman in the Dunes (film)
World Health Organization
Worms
Xenopsylla cheopis (Oriental rat flea). See also fleas
Xerces Society
Yellow Fever
Yellow Fever Commission
Yersinia pestis (cause of bubonic plague). See also plagues
Zappa, Frank
ziconotide
Zinsser, Hans
Zuk, Marlene
About the Author
DAVID MACNEAL is a journalist orbiting the fringes of science, technology, and culture. His articles have appeared in Wired, Outside, 5280, and other publications. Aside from geeking out over comic books, he bakes exquisite pies (especially blueberry) and drinks an array of whiskeys. Sometimes the glass contains bugs. He currently lives in Denver. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraphs
Introduction
1: A Cabinet of Curiosity
2: Buried Cities
3: “Even Educated Fleas Do It”
4: The On-Flying Things
5: Vámonos Pest!
6: First Responders
7: You Just Squashed the Cure for Cancer
8: Executives of Big Bug Biz
9: Dining with Crickets
10: Tracing the Collapse
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Copyright
BUGGED. Copyright © 2017 by David MacNeal. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: MacNeal, David, 1985-
Title: Bugged: the insects who rule the world and the people obsessed with them / David MacNeal; with illustrations by Michael Kennedy.
Description: First edition. | New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017006880 | ISBN 9781250095503 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250095510 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Insects. | Entomology.
Classification: LCC QL463 .M1988 2017 | DDC 595.7—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017006880
e-ISBN 9781250095510
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First Edition: July 2017
Cover photographs: beetle © 507 Collection/Alamy Stock Photo; insect © 507 Collection/Alamy Stock Photo; paper © Paladin12/Shutterstock.com; texture © jamessnazell/iStock; pins © Mr Morton/Getty Images