Sentences with phrase «in gypsy moth»

«Fungal spore «death clouds» key in gypsy moth fight.»

The lighting is sometimes lovely, but the settings are spare, even grubby, like the women's club hall full of folding chairs and the half - heartedly psychedelic strip joint in The Gypsy Moths.

Not exact matches

For instance, a fungus has been used to tamp down gypsy moth incursions in the northeastern United States.

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 mothIn 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 mothin 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 mothin turn protect oak trees by eating gypsy moths.

But the study also highlights the challenge of managing ecosystems, because in this case trying to cut down on Lyme disease by, say, trapping mice could send gypsy moth numbers soaring.

To tease out these links, Clive Jones and Richard Ostfeld's team at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, and Jerry Wolff of Oregon State University in Corvallis first showed by trapping mice in experimental forest plots that fewer mice means much greater survival rates for gypsy moth pupae.

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 eastern U.S. oak forests, defoliation by gypsy moths and the risk of Lyme disease are determined by interactions among acorns, white - footed mice, moths, deer, and ticks.

Better understanding of the distances these killer spores travel could help researchers correlate the fungus» range with weather patterns to better predict how bad gypsy moth damage will be in a given year.

In 2016, gypsy moth caterpillars ate the leaves off 350,000 acres of forest plants in Massachusetts alonIn 2016, gypsy moth caterpillars ate the leaves off 350,000 acres of forest plants in Massachusetts alonin Massachusetts alone.

In the US, they have been directed against the gypsy moth, which destroys oak trees, while in Brazil and Nicaragua, they are sprayed on soya bean plantationIn the US, they have been directed against the gypsy moth, which destroys oak trees, while in Brazil and Nicaragua, they are sprayed on soya bean plantationin Brazil and Nicaragua, they are sprayed on soya bean plantations.

Frankenheimer's reverence for the work of Wyler and Welles links him to the classicism of the late studio era, and yet in retrospect The Gypsy Moths and I Walk the Line anticipate the style and the concerns of the American New Wave.

The Gypsy Moths «title is explained in a silent long shot in which Rettig (Burt Lancaster), the self - destructive parachutist, pauses to examine moths immolating themselves on a lamp on the Brandons» front Moths «title is explained in a silent long shot in which Rettig (Burt Lancaster), the self - destructive parachutist, pauses to examine moths immolating themselves on a lamp on the Brandons» front moths immolating themselves on a lamp on the Brandons» front lawn.

«The container ship had probably 500 of those railroad cars on them and Infinity was in there, but one of the other containers on the ship contained Asian gypsy moths,» explained Disney Interactive's vice president of production John Vignocchi.

«The container ship had probably 500 of those railroad cars on them and Infinity was in there, but one of the other containers on the ship contained Asian gypsy moths,» explained Disney Interactive's vice president of production John Vignocchi.

A French artist with a fascination for silkworms, Etienne Leopold Trouvelot, brought European gypsy moths to his Massachusetts home in the 1860s.

Most residents of the Northeast know at least some of the story of the French - American artist and silkworm enthusiast Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, who brought gypsy moths from Europe to his Massachusetts home in the 1860s for an ill - fated interbreeding effort.

This was clearly a bad outbreak of the gypsy moth, an invasive species whose occasional arboreal ravages were familiar to me from childhood days in Rhode Island long ago.

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?

Since then, the fungus has spread through much of the gypsy moth's range, and — at least in spots where weather is wet enough at the right time — appears to be restoring some semblance of control.

Learn more about the gypsy moth problem in Kirby Stafford's 2016 fact sheet on gypsy moths and much more about the E. maimaiga fungus in a great post on a Cornell mycology blog.

Entomophaga maimaiga, a fungal antagonist of the Asian gypsy moth variant that scientists tried to use against Trouvelot's European imports several times starting in 1910.