Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terms of the well-made suburban novel. Panic equals the rattle of father's ice cube in one-too-many martinis. Despair equals the hundred small ways a Christmas Day falls apart, even when the keys to a new Le Mans for Conrad lie under the tree. Loneliness gets spelled out in the instructions on a frozen TV dinner...
Desperate for a defense against insects, man began to develop chemical controls. During the late Middle Ages, people attempted to control tree-destroying insects by exposing the roots of afflicted trees, pouring in old wine lees and then closing the hole. Infusions of tobacco were used in France as early as 1690 to fight lace bugs on pear trees. Pyrethrum, a compound obtained from the chrysanthemum family, was used as far back as 1800 to kill fleas. Rotenone, which can be extracted from various plants, was introduced in 1848 to attack leaf-eating caterpillars. Synthetic insecticides were introduced during...
...other work, scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research isolated frontalin, a pheromone released by the female western pine beetle to attract other beetles when it finds a tree suitable for feeding and nesting. They also isolated verbenome, a pheromone given off by the males to stop the influx of beetles to the tree after the proper balance of males and females is achieved. After synthesizing both pheromones, the researchers applied both of them to several trees. Approaching beetles were so confused that they lost their nesting and mating instincts and dispersed into the forest. Capitalizing...
...prairie with my father, who was 80 years old. It was undulating land between the great rivers Mississippi and Missouri. We looked for an old friend of his-a red-tailed hawk with one of his tail feathers missing. He had perched for years as a sentinel on a tree on a far hill, crying his protest to intruders who entered his domain. Gone, mused my father, who had once carried me on his shoulders through these fields (now he needed my hand). Another friend swallowed by time, my father said. But the old rascal's progeny were...
...boats and cruised up one of the more than 30 rivers that feed into the Bayano Dam reservoir. Far upstream in what he called an "ecologically secure area," he released them, taking care, for example, to place a two-toed sloth safely on a low-hanging branch of a tree...