Originally published in 1972 under the title "Project 40" in Galaxy Magazine.
America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects. When the Agency discovers that Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40 is a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents is dispatched to discover its true purpose. What they discover is a nightmare more horrific and hideous than even their paranoid government minds could devise.