Word: matings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experiment, reported in the February 3 issue of Science, was prompted by previous research in which the moths that wouldn't mate in the laboratory mated in cages hung in trees...
...biology team next plans to trace the reaction which causes the oak vapor to activate the female. They will remove certain endocrine glands to see if the moths will still mate without these glands...
Moths won't mate without oak leaves...
...pair made the discovery several months ago when Dr. Riddiford needed moth eggs, and learned that they had never been produced in the laboratory. She found that although males usually are attracted to female moths from as far away as two miles, they failed to mate when caged together in the laboratory...
...traveled 50 miles into the bush country to see the Royal Australian Army's Canungra jungle training center, watching Aussie "diggers" slated for Viet Nam thread an obstacle course known as "the horror stretch." On the firing range, a lieutenant offered him a burp gun, saying "Here, mate, have a go at it." "No, thank you," replied the premier, "I am in civilian clothes, so I don't shoot." Stopping at a small farming community, he gave a little speech on the schoolhouse steps, then sought out the village's old man resting near...