How to Turn Bugs into Weapons

Guest: Jeffrey Lockwood, PhD, Professor of Natural Sciences and Humanities, University of Wyoming Entomological warfare. That’s a fancy word to describe using bugs as weapons. Pits full of sheep lice, swarms of diseased fleas, BEE BOMBS? exploding wasp nests. Since humans first started fighting with each other, they’ve come up with some pretty strange and awful ways to weaponize insects. But this isn’t ancient history. America had a program during the Cold War to use yellow-fever-infected mosquitoes against our enemies. The threat of a biological attack using insects to spread disease or destroy crops remains today.