{"product_id":"killing-bugs-for-business-and-beauty-9781487508975","title":"Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKilling 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: “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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409146880343,"sku":"9781487508975","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487508975.jpg?v=1730505613","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/killing-bugs-for-business-and-beauty-9781487508975","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}