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Book SynopsisKilling Bugs for Business and Beauty chronicles Canada's remarkable program in the wake of the First World War to kill forest pests using poison dropped from aircraft.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: “The natural question is what can be done to destroy them?” 1. “Airplane dusting offers the only present hope”: Preparing to Take Canada’s War on Forest Insects to the Sky, 1886–1926 2. “One of the first aerial applications of an insecticide in forestry”: The Politics of Battling the Spruce Budworm in Nova Scotia, 1925–1927 3. “Fighting insect plagues is something new”: Aerial Dusting for Industrial Forestry in Ontario and Quebec, 1928–1929 4. “For the sake of this beautiful playground”: Killing the Hemlock Looper in Muskoka, 1927–1929 5. “You cannot control an infestation such as this with toys”: Poisoning Forest Pests in British Columbia, 1914–1929 6. “Carrying out this work, of a protective nature”: Combatting Forest Insects from the Air in Seymour Canyon and Stanley Park, British Columbia, 1929–1930 Conclusion: “We feel that the technique of airplane dusting has now been perfected”: Our Enigmatic View of Nature and the Lessons to be Drawn
