Word: preys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the awe Macbeth inspires in a playgoer is that of watching a voracious bird of prey. Sworn in honor to be a trusted host to Duncan, the King, Macbeth swoops on his sleeping sovereign and murders him. As the new King, he wheels on his best friend, Banquo. When a mettlesome foe, Macduff, threatens him, Macbeth's talons are unsheathed to mortally savage Macduff s wife and her entire brood. Finally, all Scotland falls bleeding prey to his gashing beak...
...what happens after Tx. rutilus does in large numbers of the prey mosquitoes? Does it turn, in its adult stage, to bigger meals?like man? Fortunately, the bug's proboscis cannot penetrate the skin of animal or human, and the adult depends for food only on flower nectar and plant detritus. Thus for mosquito control, as Focks puts it, "the Toxorhynchites is a neat package...
...There are minutes, days, weeks when I feel totally ineffectual through no fault of my own," she says. "Harvard's a huge corporation and it suffers from all the doubletalk that big corporations fall prey to. Some of it can be avoided but some things are just crazy," she adds...
...nesting sites of the birds were given some legal protection when the land was officially recognized as a natural area by the Interior Department in 1971. But the raptors' prey base-the lands necessary to furnish the far-ranging predators with the ground squirrels, rabbits and other small animals necessary to their survival-was not. Now, expanded farming has reduced the amount of small game in the lands on either side of the canyon rim. Private holdings along the river increase the likelihood of speculation and development. Together, these growing threats could push the birds to the brink...
...major effort is being made by the Nature Conservancy. The organization has identified five parcels of private land, covering almost 900 acres and including more than a dozen known nesting sites as well as springs and marsh lands, that it considers essential to the integrity of the Birds of Prey Natural Area...