Word: purduemen
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...scientists of Purdue University pondered ways of coping with the codling moth', a mottled, foreshortened little creature whose larvae develop in apples and do U. S. agriculture $13,000,000 worth of damage each & every year. Finding that the moths preferred early evening for their egg-laying, Purduemen at that time put lights of various kinds and colors, including ultraviolet, in the apple trees and surrounded these lures with electrified grids. Last week they reported that the ultraviolet lights had accounted for by far the largest number of electrocuted codling moths...
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