Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. The Twenty-First-Century Insectiary vii
3. The Beasts xi
4. The Aerodynamically Unsound Bumble Bee 1
5. The Brain-Boring Earwig 9
6. The California Tongue Cockroach 15
7. The Domesticated Crab Louse 24
8. The Extinction-Prevention Bee 29
9. The Filter-Lens Fly 37
10. The Genetically Modified Frankenbug 44
11. The Headless Cockroach 51
12. The Iraqi Camel Spider 57
13. The Jumping Face Bug 67
14. The Kissing Bug 74
15. The “Locust” 83
16. The Mate-Eating Mantis 89
17. The Nuclear Cockroach 96
18. The Olympian Flea 102
19. The Prognosticating Woollyworm 107
20. The Queen Bee 112
21. The Right-Handed Ant 118
22. The Sex-Enhancing Spanishfly 124
23. The Toilet Spider 130
24. The Unslakable Mosquito 136
25. The Venomous Daddy longlegs 140
26. The Wing-Flapping Chaos Butterfly 146
27. The X-ray- Induced Giant Insect The Yogurt Beetle 152
28. The Zapper Bug 164
29. References 171
30. Acknowledgments 181
31. Index 185