Word: moths
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...when she got back from the hospital. Forcing the bolt of the closet, he opened the door and fell back in horror. Huddled on the floor at his feet, under thick layers of cobwebs and dust, was the shriveled body of a woman, partly covered with a moth-eaten blanket and the decayed remnants of a blue dressing gown. The skull was bare of hair, the eye sockets were hollow, and the skin was parched to the color of dark leather and hard as rock. Beside the body lay an empty bottle of disinfectant...
...gypsy moth, a European immigrant that defoliates forests in New England and is threatening the Middle West from a beachhead near Detroit, may soon be undone by synthetic sex. Martin Jacobson, Morton Beroza and William A. Jones, all of the U.S. Agricultural Research Service, tell in Science how they have isolated and synthesized the powerful chemical lure with which female gypsy moths attract their males...
...crude extract from this first step was purified and separated into fractions by treatment with various chemicals, and each fraction was tested for sex attractiveness. A slender glass rod was touched to the sample and brought near the antennae of a male moth held in wing clips. If he fluttered and made mating motions, the sample was adjudged to contain the sexual lure of the 500,000 martyred virgins...
...Bats v. Moths. Bats, owls and porpoises all navigate or find their prey by sonic devices that are much more delicate and effective than anything man can build. More delicate still is the microscopic ear of a kind of moth that is often a prey of bats. It is tuned to the ultrasonic squeaks that bats send out, so the moth can take evasive action if a bat comes close. Biologists have already used this marvelous instrument. When electrodes are attached to its nerve, it makes the best known microphone for listening to bats...
Appearing before a convention of Susan B. Anthony's suffragettes, Victoria made a magnetic impression and won unanimous endorsement. Then her moth er spoiled everything by revealing that the presidential nominee maintained her husband and her lover together under the same roof. Victoria stoutly defended her new freedom, but her political cause was lost. She spent election night 1872 in jail, charged with sending obscene material through the mails, and Ulysses S. Grant beat her - and Horace Greeley - by a considerable margin...