Word: bios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moth's enemies, including a parasitic wasp that lays its eggs on the caterpillars, have apparently staged a comeback. And many biologists suspect that the new ivy around the Bio Labs is less moth-eaten than the sprayed ivy in the Yard and Business School areas...
INSECTICIDES have created a particular problem for entomologists at the Bio Labs. When an organic phosphate insecticide was sprayed in the Laboratory's greenhouse last year, it drified into a ventilation fan and wiped out a colony of silk moths in another room. Ironically, these moths were part of a study on moth development and hormones-a project that may lead to a safer class of insecticides...
Williams's group has raised its moths in Medford during the summer toavoid pesticide fogs that may drift into the Bio Labs from nearby areas...
Several years ago, Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, noticed robins in similar convulsions outside the Bio Labs after an insecticide spra...
...other discovery was essentially an accident. Williams' group found that a European bug would grow fairly well in the Bio Labs up until the last larval stage. Then instead of becoming an adult, it would become a giant larva and eventually die without reproducing...