The first time I stumbled across a reference to the disease known as phthiriasis (pronounced “thuh-RY-uh-sis) I was reading Plutarch’s gleeful account of the death of the Roman tyrant Sulla.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138 – 78 BC), who had a… Read More
In 1849 and again in 1852, the U.S. imported house sparrows from Germany as a defense against caterpillars. They multiplied rapidly. Prior to 1849, the species was not found in America.