Sentences with phrase «as gypsy moth»

Not exact matches

«Food webs, such as those connecting mouse, acorn, and gypsy moth, do not merely describe who eats whom, but trace the outlines of their very being,» Barash writes.

But plants such as purple loosestrife; invertebrates like the zebra mussels and gypsy moths; mammals, including rats, feral cats and pigs; and microbes like the AIDS virus are hardly so benign.

The secret ingredient is a compound known as 2 - pyrrolidinone, which is also made by gypsy - moth caterpillars to ward off predatory ants.

re Dan H. 541 — that's what I meant by human population dynamics being «fortunately complex» — that it helps to control our population growth by being nice to each other (in specific ways), as opposed to how we would control deer or lady bugs (or aphids) or gypsy moths, etc. (would that change if deer reached a stage part - way between subsistence and affluence?

There are other natural antagonists of the gypsy moth, although during a big outbreak they tend to be overwhelmed, as the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources explains.