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Index
Acalymma, 98
acarophobia, 83
acetic acid, 63
Acharia stimulea, 51
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain), 108
African bat bugs, 1–3
African bombardier beetle, 55
African lice, 226
African millipede, 157
Afrocimex constrictus, 1–3
Aleut people, 159
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 233
Ampulex compressa, 242
anaphylactic shock, 88, 140
Anascorp, 61
Anastrepha striata, 153
Androctonus crassicauda, 62
anemia, 27, 29
Anobium punctatum, 114
Anopheles, 163–65
Anthonomus grandis, 211–12
Antommarchi, Dr. Francesco Carlo, 219
ants, 137–43
Apache tribe, 160
aphids, 95, 97, 143
Aphis nerii, 95
aphrodisiac, 229–30
apiphobia, 83
Apis cerana japonica, 10–11
apophallation, 5
arachnophobia, 83
archduke caterpillar, 50
Archispirostreptus gigas, 157
Argentine ant, 142–43
Ariolimax californicus, 4–5
Aristotle, 113, 226
Arizona bark scorpion, 62
arrow poisons, 158–60
ascariasis, 179
Ascaris lumbricoides, 178–79
Asian giant hornet, 9–12
asp moth, 50
asparagus beetle, 93, 105
assassin bug, 15–19, 22, 30
Atkins, John, 237–38
Auchmeromyia senegalensis, 130
Automeris io, 51
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), 179
israelensis, 40
Backshall, Steve, 141
Bactrocera oleae, 153
Baghdad boil, 217
bald-faced hornet, 137
banana slug, 4–5
banana spider, 59
Barbary Plague, 185
bat bugs, 1–3
bed bugs, 1, 2, 3, 27–30
bees, 21–22
bilharzia, 178
biting midge, 33–35, 217
Black Death, 183–86
black fly, 37–41
black sooty mold, 101
black vine weevil, 212
black widow, 43–46
blacklegged tick, 117–19
Blattella germanica, 85–89
blister beetle, 229–31
blocking, 184
blow flies, 194–95, 196
blue stain fungi, 168
bluetongue, 35
Bodleian Library, 108
body lice, 222–26
boll weevil, 211–12
bombardier beetle, 53–55, 159
book louse, 112
book scorpion, 113–14
bookworm, 110–14
Borrelia burgdorferi, 119
Brazilian wandering spider, 57–59
Brothers, Vincent, 192–93
Brown, Jerry, 151–52
brown garden snail, 96
brown marmorated stink bug, 65–67
Brugia malayi, 176–77
bubonic plague, 23
bug pits, 22
bugs, xiii–xiv
Bulkley, L. D., 226
bullet ant, xiii, 138, 141–42
bullhorn acacia ant, 137
Burns, Robert, 110
burying beetles, 195–96
butterflies of love, 227
calcium arsenate, 212
cantharidin, 230–31
carabid, 159
cardiac glycosides, 95
Carmelitos Housing Project, 85–86
carrion flies, 194–95
Carter, Jimmy, 124, 179–80
Carter Center, 124
castor bean tick, 119
cat flea, 186
caterpillars, 47–51, 243
Centers for Disease Control, 177
centipede, 30, 155
Centruroides sculpturatus, 62
suffuses, 62
Chagas disease, 16–19, 22
Chelifer cancroides, 113–14
Cherry Blossoms at Night, 24
Chicago Daily Tribune, xi–xii
chigger mites, 73–75
chigoe flea, 77–79
Chlamydia trachomatis, 122
Chrysomya bezziana, 128
cigarette beetle, 109
Cimex lectularius, 27–30
Civil War, 209
cnidophobia, 83
cobweb spiders, 46
cocaine, 194–95
Cochliomyia hominivorax, 127–28
cockroach, 85–89, 242
coddling moth, 100
Colorado potato beetle, 91–93, 105
Columbus, Christopher, 77
common housefly, 123, 124
Congo floor maggot, 130
Conolly, Arthur, 22
copepod, 180
Coptotermes formosanus, 133–36
Cordylobia anthropophaga, 128–29
corn rootworm, 103–5
Cornell University, 231
Cornu aspersum, 96
corpse-eaters, 192–96
cosmopolitan species, 113
Coulson, Robert, 80
crab spider, 7
crabs, 227
crop rotation, 104–5
Ctenocephalides canis, 186
felis, 186
Ctesias, 191
cucumber beetles, 93, 98
Culicoides, 33–35
impunctatus, 34
Curculio caryae, 212
cutworms, 97
cyanide, 66
Cymothoa exigua, 243
Dacus ciliatus, 153
Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, 199–202
Darwin, Charles, 15–16, 19, 53, 54–55
DDT, 40, 212
dead insect syndrome, 80
deathstalker, 63
death-watch beetle, 107–9
decollate snail, 96
deer tick, 117–19
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 20
delusional parasitosis, 83
Dendroctonus frontalis, 169
ponderosae, 167–69
Dermatobia hominis, 126–27
Dermestes lardarius, 112
vulpinus, 112
determined feeders, 38
detritivores, 155
devil’s coach-horse beetle, 191
Diabrotica, 98
barberi, 103–5
virgifera virgifera, 103–5
Diamphidia, 158–59
dog flea, 186
Dorylus, 140–41
dracunculiasis, 180
Dracunculus medinensis, 179–81
Dri-die, 85–86
driver ants, 140–41
drugstore beetle, 109, 113
Durango scorpion, 62
earthworms, 171–73
earwigs, 97
eflornithine, 239–40
Einstein, Albert, 114
Eisenia fetida, 173
Eisner, Thomas, 231
elephantiasis, 176–77
emerald cockroach wasp, 242
Encarsia formosa, 96
English car drivers, 81
entomophobia, 80–81, 83
environmental response, 80
Erasmus, Desiderius, 111
ergot poisoning, 235
erythema migrans, 119
European black millipede, 156
European hornet, 12, 138
European spruce bark beetle, 169
extended diapause, 105
fattail scorpion, 62
Field Museum, 112
filth fly, 121–24
fire ant, 137, 139–40, 244
fire caterpillar, 48–49
firefly, 5–6
flannel moth, 50
flatworm, 243–44
flea beetle, 99
fleas, 23–24
Fogle, Ben, 215, 216–17
forensic entomology, 192–93
Formosan subterranean termite, 133–36
Fraser, Thomas R., 159
furniture beetle, 114
galls, 200
gamasid mites, 196
garden pests, 94–101
geraniums, 98
giant centipede, 145–49
Glomeris marginata, 157
Glossina, 237–40
Glyptapanteles, 243
Goff, M. Lee, 194
golden orb-weaver, 7
gorilla lice, 224
granary weevil, 211
grasshoppers, 205–8, 231, 244
grayanotoxin poisoning, 22
Greeks, ancient, 21–22, 111, 113, 191
green-banded broodsac, 243–44
Grose, Francis, 107–8
ground beetle, 159
guava fruit fly, 153
Guinea worm, 179–81
gypsy moth caterpillar, 49
hairworm, 244
Hale, Cindy, 171, 172–73
Halyomorpha halys, 65–67
ham beetles, 196
Haplotrema vancouverense, 96
hardtack, 209–10, 211
Hargis, Carole, 233–34
Hargis, David, 233–34
Harper’s, 109
Havasupai tribe, 159–60
harvest mites, 75
head lice, 223–24, 226–27
helminthophobia, 83
hematophagy, 3
hemolymph, 158
Henderson, Gregg, 134–35
hepatits A, 85–86
hermaphrodites, 4–5
Herodian of Antioch, 23
hexanol, 29
Highland midge, 34
Historia Animaliun (Aristotle), 113
honey intoxication, 138
honeydew, 100, 143
Hooke, Robert, 113
hornet juice, 11–12
hornets, 9–12
house centipede, 30, 147
human bot fly, 126–27
Hunter, Mark, 133
Huntington Library, 113
Hurricane Katrina, 133–36
Hybrid Insect Micro-ElectroMechanical System (HI-MEMS), 20–21
hydrogen cyanide, 157
hydrogen peroxide, 54, 55
hydroquinones, 54, 55
“If Bugs Were the Size of Men,” xi–xii
insect phobias, 80–83
insecticides, 40, 67, 80, 85–86, 89, 104, 105, 140, 151–52, 153, 212
insects, xiv
International Atomic Energy Agency, 239
io moth caterpillar, 51
Ips typographus, 169
isopterophobia, 83
ivermectin, 40
Ixodes ricinus, 119
scapularis, 117–19
Japanese beetles, 98
Japanese honeybee, 10–11
Japan’s Unit 731, 23–24
jewel wasp, 242
Jewish National and University Library, 114
Jova tribe, 160
Justinian’s Plague, 185
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, 118
katsaridaphobia, 83
Kettle, D. S., 33
Kimsey, Lynn, 192–93
kissing bug, 17
Krauth, Steven, 245
Küchenmeister, Friedrich, 174
LaFage, Jeffery, 134
lancetooth snail, 96
larder beetle, 112
Lasioderma serricorne, 109
Latrodectus hasselti, 45
hesperus, 43–46
leaf beetle, 93, 158–59
leaf-footed bugs, 67
leather beetle, 112
Lebistina, 159
leishmaniasis, 216–17
Leiurus quinquestriatus, 63
Lenin, V. I., 223
lepidopterophobia, 83
Lepisma saccharina, 113
Leptinotarsa decemlineata, 91–93
Leptotrombidium, 73–75
lesser pumpkin fly, 153
Leucochloridium paradoxum, 243–44
Lexias, 50
Liarsky, Stephen, 43
lice, 209, 222–27
Lichtenstein, Jules, 202
lidocaine, 88
Linepithema humile, 142–43
Livingstone, David, 239
Lockwood, Jeffrey, 21
locusts, 205–8
London Zoo, 44
Lonomia achelous, 48–49
obliqua, 48–49
lousy disease, 226
Loxosc
eles reclusa, 69–71
LSD, 234, 235
Lucian of Samosata, 111
Lumbricus rubellus, 172, 173
terrestris, 171–73
Lymantria dispar, 49
Lyme disease, 117–19
Lymphatic filariasis, 176–77
Lytta vesicatoria, 229–31
maggots, 125–30
Malacosoma, 101
malaria, 163–65, 209
malathion, 151–52
mandaratoxin, 9
Manduca quinquemaculata, 99
sexta, 99
Mansonella, 35
Mastigoproctus giganteus, 63
mating lek, 215–16
mating practices, aggressive, 2–7
Mayans, 21
Mectizan, 177
Mediterranean fruit fly, 151–53
Megalopyge opercularis, 50
Megaselia scalaris, 129
Melanoplus spretus, 205–8
Merck, 40
microfilariae, 38–39, 40
millipedes, 147, 155–57
mites, 196
mold mites, 196
mosquitoes, 163–65, 176–77, 209
mountain pine beetle, 167–69
Murray, Polly, 117–18
Musca domestica, 124
sorbens, 121–24
myrmecophobia, 83
Nairobi eye, 189–90
Nairobi flies, 189–91
Napoleon I, 219–22
nematodes, 35, 38–39
Neopyrochroa flabellata, 230–31
Nephila plumipes, 7
neurotoxins, 22
New Orleans, 133–36
New York Times, 151, 167–68
Nicrophorus, 195
nightcrawlers, 171–73
no-see-ums, 33–35
northern corn rootworm, 103–5
octenol, 29
Ocypus olens, 191
oleander aphid, 95
olive fruit fly, 153
Olympics, 12
Ommatoiulus moreletii, 156
Onchocerca volvulus, 37–39
onchocerciasis, 37
Ono, Masato, 9, 10
Oriental rat fleas, 183–86
Oropouche fever, 35
Orthoporus dorsovittatus, 157
Otiorhynchus sulcatus, 212
Oviedo, Francisco de, 77, 78
Paederus beetle, 189–91
Palmetto bug, 89
paper wasp, 138
Paraponera clavata, 141–42
parasitic wasps, 96, 99, 101
parasitoid wasp, 243
parasitophobia, 83
parthenogenetic insects, 95
pathogens, 87–88
pecan weevil, 212
pederin, 189, 191
pediculophobia, 83
pediculosis corporis, 225
Pediculus humanus capitis, 226
humanus humanus, 224–27
Pelargonium zonale, 98
penicillin, 165
perfect leaf syndrome, 80
Periplaneta americana, 89
pheromones, 9, 10, 30, 100
Phlebotomus, 215–17
phobias, 80–83
Phoenix Children’s Hospital, 61
Phoneutria, 57–59
phorid fly, 244
Photinus ignites, 5–6