Word: beese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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(4 of 10) its playtime purposeful. On the prairie, leisure hours consisted of quilting bees and barn raisings. In New England, a relaxed weekend in the late 1800s was a practice muster of local fire companies. The country has always blended its fun with self-improvement and dreaming up gimmicks...
Ranging from the carefree chirit, a long-bodied squirrel that moves by hunching its body inchworm-style, to the flooer, whose large pinkish ears mimic a flower to attract edible bees, Dixon's future zoo may suggest an imagination gone wild. But he is talking about a period 50...
Entomologists agree that the moths can never be entirely eliminated. But containment may be possible. Early in the larval stage, when the caterpillars are still small and vulnerable, shorter-lived, milder pesticides like Sevin are useful, though Sevin also kills bees, which are needed for pollinating many fruits and flowers...
Birds do it, and so do bees and even educated fleas. But human beings are the only ones who make money writing about it, and it is the Wallaces of course - father, daughter, mother and son-who have reduced the practice to its final and most lucrative essence: an encyclopedia...
Animals are also reappearing. Pocket gophers, once regarded as pests because they eat young conifers, may prove to be man's allies: their labyrinthine burrowing improves soil aeration and helps water flow through the compacted ash. Elk and deer have been spotted around water sources in the blowdown area...