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...with sticks, stones, vegetation or anything else in the vicinity. However they react, they are seldom able to find the available females; they soon become so accustomed to the scent that they no longer respond to it. The result: a sharp drop in the population of caterpillar young -and crop damage. In field tests near Blythe, Calif., last year, only 10% of cotton crops treated with Gossyplure were damaged, compared with 80% in unsprayed areas...
Gossyplure won EPA approval after laboratory tests showed that it was harmless to humans, wildlife and vegetation and had no effect on other species of insects. (Standard chemical sprays used on cotton fields also kill insects that are beneficial to the crop.) It is conceivable, so to speak, that the bollworm could evolve immunity to its own sex pheromone-for example, by producing a different scent. But scientists could then synthesize the new pheromone and continue to control the frustrated moths...
...small colony of new tents, down sleeping bags and gas stoves, a lone voice lilted to one tired guitar, singing, "Tenting Tonight." Eastern Mountain Sports must be celebrating tonight, I thought. I read somewhere that wherever, and whenever, a strong wave of student activism surges forth, camping stores crop up like picnic ants at a State Fair...
STARBOARD SPLINTERS: Rumor around Newell that Washington's lights, the cream of the Western crew crop, may come East for the Sprints. Crimson squad drooling for Huskie match-up and crack at mythical national title...
Last year's crop of sad-eyed Niemans warned back in September that the decompression had been painful, even for those headed back to the hometown Boston Globe. And although at least two fellows per class are catapulted to instant fame, others long bear the scars of re-entry: getting slapped with night re-write in Detroit, punishment weather stories in Texas...