Infested : how the bed bug infiltrated our bedrooms and took over the world /
Borel, Brooke,
Infested : how the bed bug infiltrated our bedrooms and took over the world / Brooke Borel. - xiv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cryptic insect -- Meet the bed bug -- The fall: DDT and the slaying of the beast -- The forgotten era: out of sight, out of mind -- The return: a pyrethroid paradox -- Annihilation: by any means necessary -- Fear: when things go bite in the night -- Money: the Wild West of the bed bug economy -- Mysterious rash: the psychological toll of travel -- The origin of a species: the bed bug's beginning -- Epilogue -- Horror, curiosity, and joy.
9780226041933
2014035967
Bedbugs--History.
QL523.C6 / B67 2015
595.7/54
Infested : how the bed bug infiltrated our bedrooms and took over the world / Brooke Borel. - xiv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cryptic insect -- Meet the bed bug -- The fall: DDT and the slaying of the beast -- The forgotten era: out of sight, out of mind -- The return: a pyrethroid paradox -- Annihilation: by any means necessary -- Fear: when things go bite in the night -- Money: the Wild West of the bed bug economy -- Mysterious rash: the psychological toll of travel -- The origin of a species: the bed bug's beginning -- Epilogue -- Horror, curiosity, and joy.
9780226041933
2014035967
Bedbugs--History.
QL523.C6 / B67 2015
595.7/54