Sentences with phrase «eating gypsy moths»
In a 3 - year study described in today's Science, the researchers showed that bumper crops of acorns lead to an explosion of mice, and the mice in turn protect oak trees by eating gypsy moths.
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«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.
The shortage of sap might also come from a boom of forest tent caterpillars, gypsy moth caterpillars, and other maple pests in the area, which eat leaves and can kill the trees.
In 2016, gypsy moth caterpillars ate the leaves off 350,000 acres of forest plants in Massachusetts alone.