Word: moth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard's four major insect spraying projects, the ivy moth program has come in for particular criticism...
This small black and white moth known as the Eight-Spotted Forester ( Alypia Octomaculata ) emerges in early May, Several generations of its caterpillars fatten themselves on the University's ivy each summer...
Williams and other biologists suspect that over the past 40 years chemical sprays have killed the moth's natural parasites more thoroughly than they controlled the moths...
Frank M. Carpenter, Fisher Professor of Natural History, discovered evidence that might support this theory. He simply noticed that the unsprayed ivy on the Shannon Hall side of the Bio Labs was much less moth-eaten than the sprayed ivy on the Divinity Avenue side of the building...
...move in their sockets. And Owl, Service found, could not see his own feet, or focus on anything closer than eight or ten inches away. For all Service could tell, owls may even see double all the time. Yet in the dimmest light Owl could spot a small moth 20 feet away-if it moved, and provided he was hungry...