There is always a mix of germs, good and bad, and breaching the protective lining can let in a life-threatening bug.
The first episodes give way to lovely B-plots that involve Poussey making prison hooch, bed bugs threatening Litchfield's existence, Daya's impending motherhood, Lorna scamming suitors who write to her and Nicky wanting to sell (or perhaps use) the batch of heroin that once belonged to Vee.
The cover art, by Emsh, Earle K. Bergey, and Walter Popp, was stereotypical, with Emsh's cover for the February 1953 issue including what sf historian Wendy Bousfield describes as the three stereotypes of sf art: "the spaceman, the voluptuous blonde, and the threatening bug-eyed monster".
But some space scientists are suggesting that a new menace might soon join the pantheon of pandemics threatening your bodily wellbeing: bugs from space.
But a nasty bug threatens to tarnish this politically vital achievement.MRSA methicillin-resistant stA methicillin-resistanta common germ that hastaphylococcussistaureus isost antibioticommon
In 1940, the bugs threatened to destroy the entire potato crop of France.
Obviously one doesn't have to be among "Stone Age warriors" to be mortally threatened, attacked by bugs or lack a proper coffee maker.
Leaf beetle larvae, when threatened by stink bugs, do exactly the same; the only difference is that they face inward and can keep on eating while their armored rears protect them.
Federal grants will fund study of food system, environment [Cornell Chronicle 10/29/2012] – How can farmers battle marmorated stink bugs in vineyards or late blight threatening a tomato crop?
On the ground, the bugs are causing agricultural damage and are threatening to pose a significant ecological problem.
True bugs, or heteroptera, all have scent glands, which can release a volatile, acrid fluid when the bug is threatened or aroused.
