Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War

Jeffery Lockwood examines the use of insects as weapons dating back to the middle ages when armies would use catapults, trebuchets, and other siege weapons to launch scorpions, bees, to create chaos among the enemy as well as failed attempts to spread plague with exposed insects. He also discusses the dangerous potential of insect based weapons in the modern war on terror and previous terrorist threats made agriculture.