Word: moth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...More DDT. Chief defoliator is the two-inch-long larva of the gypsy moth, a fuzzy brown caterpillar with blue and red spots that daily consumes one square foot of tree leaves (but not farm crops). Almost any kind of tree leaf from maple and pine to magnolia is meat for its mandibles. What makes the gluttonous insect so Jiard to control is that it has lacked natural enemies. It was imported from Europe to Massachusetts in 1869 by Leopold Trouvelot, a misguided naturalist who hoped to crossbreed the hardy moths with silkworms and start a new textile industry. Instead...
...hands of the Communist bloc. While the world awaits the sordid outcome in Viet Nam, the Communists are hunting with both the hare and the hounds. So before this friendship becomes a courtship, make doubly sure that your great space secrets are buried safely where "no rust, or moth can consume, or thieves steal...
...primary danger to Harvard's ivy is from the larvae of a small black and white moth. This moth, known as the Eight Spotted Forester (Alypia Octomaculata). emerges in early May and its caterpillars feed on the ivy for several months...
Buildings and Grounds has been spraying the ivy to combat this normally rare pest for some 40 years. Several biologists thought that the insecticides had been killing the moth's parasites more than the moths themselves. The biologists then asked B and G to test their hypothesis by leaving several buildings unsprayed...
That's the way it is with Four on a Garden. All comedy is human comedy. One must be able to sympathize, recognize or identify with the person or the situation behind the gag. That was true in Cactus Flower, where one wanted the prim moth of a nurse to be transformed into a seductive butterfly. It was also true in Forty Carats, where one somehow cared whether or not the 40-year-old matron became the bride of her ardent 22-year-old lover...