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Operation DEAD, Dunster House's full-scale blitz against its insect invasion, is under way this week, and students say they are happy to be solving a problem that has been bugging them for years...
Secondly, Bazzaz has shown in experiments that butterfly larvae that eat leaves with a higher carbon-to-nitrogen ratio than normal are more prone to death. They have a higher mortality rate and grow less than larvae that eat leaves grown from a nitrogen-rich environment. Consequently, insect populations will go down, which in turn may upset the food chain...
...takes a little longer with some bugs. They don't seem to get the picture. Last summer, as I was crawling into bed, I spotted a big, black spider on the ceiling. He was a pretty intimidating insect, but it was late, and I was tired. I didn't want to leave the room. I also didn't want the spider to crawl on me. So I kept the light on, lay awake in bed, and worked hard on the telepathy...
CLEARLY, SOME PEOPLE DERIVE PLEASURE from killing bugs. It becomes a kind of game. And there's a market for new and improved ways to wreak havoc on the insect world...
...chose a vaccine, manufactured by MicroGeneSys of Meriden, Conn., that consists of genetically engineered pieces of the virus. The vaccine makers took strands of DNA that code for the outer covering of HIV and put them into another kind of virus, one that infects only moths and butterflies. The insect virus then produced AIDS proteins in addition...