9781487539429

1487539428

9781487539436

1487539436

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 12, 2022).

Issued also in print format.

Print version: Kuhlberg, Mark, 1966- Killing bugs for business and beauty. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021

Introduction: "The natural question is what can be done to destroy them?"

"Airplane dusting offers the only present hope": Preparing to Take Canada's Campaign against Forest Insects to the Sky, 1884-1926

"One of the first aerial applications of an insecticide in forestry": The Politics of Battling the Spruce Budworm in Nova Scotia, 1925-1927

"Fighting insect plagues is something new": Aerial Dusting for Industrial Forestry in Ontario and Quebec, 1928-1929

"For the sake of this beautiful playground": Killing the Hemlock Looper in Muskoka, 1927-1929

"You cannot control an infestation such as this with toys": Poisoning Forest Pests in British Columbia, 1913-1929

"Carrying out this work, of a protective nature": Combatting Insects 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.

Aerial spraying and dusting in forestry > Canada > History > 20th century.

Insect pests > Control > Canada > History > 20th century.

Environmental policy > Canada > History > 20th century.