In the Northeast, a single species of parasitic fly has caused declines in the populations of two native silk moth species. |
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Silk moth cocoons are made of a layer of silk that the caterpillar exudes from glands in its mouth. |
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The tiny lime-speck pug moth is common and widespread over much of Britain. |
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For something in bloom, choose a camellia, Christmas cactus, cymbidium, kalanchoe, or moth orchid. |
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Gypsy moth egg hatch occurs at about the time of budburst of red and black oaks. |
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Included among the invertebrates are moth flies, wood gnats, midges, punkies, mosquitoes, marsh beetles, and beelike or wasplike syrphid flies. |
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Upon thawing, the head and left metathoracic femur of each moth were removed and dried. |
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A tiger moth swooped down and brushed Anna with its dusty wings before gliding off into the distance. |
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Certain orchids, such as moth and slipper orchids, also fall into this category. |
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Searching the Siberian hinterlands for a tiger moth that is surely extinct by now is his idea of fun. |
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The mahogany-coloured larvae of the goat moth attack deciduous trees and exude a strong, goatlike odour. |
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After some clicking around, I think that the goat moth may be close to that one I saw on my garage. |
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It is a ghost moth and said to be common, though it is some years since I have seen one here. |
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The damsel bug, preys on soft-bodied insects such as aphids, jassids, caterpillars and moth and butterfly eggs. |
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Even earwigs can be useful because they eat aphids, codling moth eggs and the red spider mite. |
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A pupa of the moth is discovered in a murder victim's throat, and the film posters featured a full-grown specimen superimposed on Foster's face. |
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Apple scab over-winters on fallen leaves, codling moth caterpillars live in fallen apples and pear midge grubs live in fallen fruitlets. |
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The moth is dull gray with gray wings with a white blotch near the tip of the forewings. |
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The apple small ermine moth causes more or less serious defoliation at the tips of branches of apple trees. |
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When the same bacteria are injected into the common flour moth Ephestia kuehniella, however, they simply kill the males. |
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The meter itself is in perfect condition it was only the leather case that had gone a bit moth eaten. |
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Maybe it is like a moth to a flame, fascinated by its brightness but also blinded by it. |
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In addition to beetles, moth larva eat the hair, and rodents are commonly noted as coprophagic. |
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The Io moth is a very colorful North American moth in the Saturniidae family. |
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In the wake of that success, the moth was also introduced to other islands, such as Montserrat and Antigua. |
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The title comes from an image of a moth so in love with a flame that it keeps flinging itself into a candle until it combusts. |
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The light-pink worm, or larva, of the codling moth and the white worm of the oriental fruit moth hungrily feed on fruit. |
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But for some strange reason he is drawn to this clueless, blond bimbo like a moth to a flame. |
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The clothes moth larva is the only feeding stage and therefore the only stage that damages fabrics. |
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Good housekeeping is as important in preventing clothes moth infestations as it is in clothes moth control. |
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The most common clothes moth in the U.S., they measure one half inch and are golden-brown with red-gold hairs on the head. |
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Horseshoe bats have a special kind of echolocation, which allows them to use the Doppler shift to detect the flutter of moth wings. |
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Tussock moth larvae that are not killed by parasitic wasps and predators turn into brightly marked caterpillars. |
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At least two other moths, the mottled umber moth, and the March moth have wingless females. |
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There, among the white waxy flowers, she saw a small, snow-white moth with grayish hind wings. |
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Both the webbing clothes moth and the casemaking clothes moth are similar in appearance. |
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Codling moth adults were observed on several occasions resting on the plastic egg traps. |
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Scatter moth balls about or burn sulfur candles to evict them and then seal entrances with hardware cloth to prevent re-entry. |
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The strategy is a bit like that of northern cecropia moth pupae, which do not stir unless previously chilled for a sufficiently long time. |
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A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly or moth A grub is the larva of a beetle, but this term too is used loosely. |
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The third moth is the carpet moth that I believe was lurking under my friend's carpet. |
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The moth lays eggs, and the larvae leave silvery trails as they damage the foliage. |
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The pine tree lappet moth is a major defoliator of pines and other conifers over much of its natural range. |
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Riley's lappet moth is found in southern Michigan along floodplains where its larval host plant, honey locust, grows. |
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The gypsy moth is a notorious pest that feeds on birches and other deciduous trees, and outbreaks occur cyclically across large regions of Japan. |
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The gypsy moth has a very broad host range but prefers to feed on oak species. |
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She could hear the ragged breathing of her prey, drawing her to him like a moth to the flame. |
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She felt like a moth to the flame, knowing that the more time she spent with him, the more battered her world would become. |
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The new slim line clothes moth traps use a non-toxic pheromone based sticky pad to attract and catch carpet moths and brown house moths. |
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The barberry carpet moth is now fully protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. |
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The life cycle of the carpet moth is very similar to the life cycles of other fabric moths. |
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So we have had visitors from Asia in the form of the Asian gypsy moth and Asian tiger mosquito larvae. |
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The poem's title arises from its final, extraordinary image of a female luna moth hanging in foliage outside a country church. |
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Moths are generally distinguished from butterflies by their drabness, yet the luna moth is almost flamboyant. |
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Some lovely choices for wedding flowers include azalea, calla, hydrangea, moth orchid, Oriental lily, rhododendron, and rose. |
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For yuccas, Addicott notes that the baccate species typically lose more seeds to yucca moth larvae than do the dry-fruited capsular yuccas. |
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The Small Eggar moth is another rarity found only in this part of Shropshire. |
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Her smoke curled toward the light over the table where a moth was bumping against the bulb. |
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Up close, Isobel could see moth holes, and ragged hems, and the stiff shininess that belied fabric long unworn and unhandled. |
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He once managed to net a silver-striped hawk moth and his joy was unconfined. |
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This actual moth is much larger than the sixteenth of an inch attributed to the fictional insect. |
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The larva of the mottled umber moth is a reddish brown caterpillar that eats the leaves of oak trees and shrubs. |
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Then impregnating the fibers with chemicals that resist moth larvae mothproofs it. |
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Not until spring was the box opened again, when great was my amazement to find a big moth flapping its wings! |
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Does a moth flapping its wings in Timbuktu have any effect on a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean? |
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The silver Y moth is generally distributed throughout India and the Pacific. |
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Don't allow bark around moth orchid roots to dry completely. |
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Blanche was a fragile white moth beating against the unbreakable sides of a 1000 watt bulb. |
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Away from the world of wine-and-cheese openings and quickie television interviews, Gandhy's public-spiritedness draws him to causes like a moth to a candle. |
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This small moth is completely dependent on the yucca plant for its existence, and the yucca plant is completely dependent on the yucca moth for its survival. |
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But simply by hating it, I am drawn to it like a moth to the flame. |
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Some of the atlas moths and a Noctuid moth have wingspans over 300 mm. |
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Like a moth to flame, heat scorched her flesh in his presence. |
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The Purbeck mason wasp is a large, red, black-and-yellow mason wasp which provisions its nest with the caterpillars of a tortricid moth which feeds on heathers. |
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One night, a moth flew into my mom's ear while she was washing dishes. |
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The small, nondescript moth is seldom noticed as it flies in the evening. |
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The summer fruit tortrix moth is not known to occur in North America but is a major pest of fruit crops, especially apple and pear, in countries where it occurs. |
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The carnation tortrix moth is a butterfly of the tortrix moths family. |
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For example, codling moth larvae do not consume much of the apple that they infest, but they cause great esthetic damage by their presence and can render produce unmarketable. |
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Its only taken a week for this vapourer moth larva to do one moult. |
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The first breakthrough in the development of insect cell culture was the report of maturation of testicular follicle cells to spermatocytes in a moth in an artificial medium. |
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The six-spot burnet moth is brightly coloured and is active by day. |
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As expected given low levels of wild codling moths, release of sterile males, and treatment with pheromone, there was no detectable codling moth damage in any orchard. |
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Similarly, the leek moth Acrolepiopsis assectella Zeller and the onion fly Delia antiqua Meigen are both attracted to their respective host plants by the flavour volatiles. |
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How can I tell when diamondback moth caterpillars are damaging my cabbage? |
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For example, some moth caterpillars overwinter on exposed ridges. |
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The caterpillars of the gypsy moth are destructive defoliators that feed primarily on oak trees causing growth loss, crown dieback, and tree mortality. |
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I examine how habitat patchiness influences the distribution, abundance, and spatial dynamics of the geometrid moth Itame andersoni in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska. |
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As a moth to a flame, the graffiti offenders appear to be drawn to the building used as a cricket pavilion, close by the entrance to the Tattenham Way Recreation Ground. |
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The delicate moth that emerges from the cocoon is a pale yellowish-green. |
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A moth slowly fluttered in an erratic circle around her, dancing jovially. |
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A pure cold moth landed on Peter's lips and fluttered there for a second. |
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The buff ermine moth is so called because of its buff colouring. |
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On the world scene, diamondback moth is ranked as the major insect pest of a large number of commercially grown cruciferous plants, including canola. |
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The gypsy moth is a notorious pest that feeds on birches and other deciduous trees, and outbreaks of this pest occur cyclically across large regions of Japan. |
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It is a moth with which they have long been generically grouped. |
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When the hawk moth proboscises were long compared to the length of the flower tube, the hawk moths did not efficiently pick up pollen, and the flowers did not reproduce well. |
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Green pug moth caterpillars have been found in Oxford County this month, showing that they have spread beyond their original coastal distribution. |
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As the moth leaves, the Isengard motif returns, driving itself like the machinery it represents as we see the devilry that Saruman is creating below the tower. |
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Researchers said they could not be certain if the gypsy moth caterpillars caused fetal loss in the one mare or if she would have lost the pregnancy regardless of treatment. |
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The insecticide spraying programs have wiped out dozens of native moths and butterflies, probably doing more damage than the gypsy moth would have done. |
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This kind of moth is responsible for decimating thousands of trees in our town. |
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The researchers focused on the European corn borer, a moth species in which males often mate with females from a different strain. |
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Cleaning products, automotive chemicals, like antifreeze, batteries, pennies, moth balls and glue all present issues for pets. |
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Orchids of the moth and Dendrobium varieties clear the air of toluene and xylene. |
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The moth has black and creamy-white striped markings on its forewing and a red, orange or yellow hindwing. |
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The bird-cherry ermine moth has several rows of black dots on its forewing, and a wingspan of 16-25 mm. |
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Just over a month later it hatched and the Atlas moth decorated the front room wall of their home in Gregory Springs Road, Mirfield. |
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The upper wings of the moth which Jacob held were undoubtedly marked with kidney-shaped spots of fulvous hue. |
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When tested, both tent moth caterpillars and fall webworms strongly avoided extracts taken from the bodies of other dead caterpillars. |
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It took them not only from dead thrips larvae but from infected hemlock looper pupae, and wax moth larvae set out on the forest soil as bait. |
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Additional ghoulish goodies sure to get a scream are wax moth trail mix, popcorn insect crunch, and mealworm spice cake. |
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Her Crispy Mix appetizer pairs wax moth larvae with thin, inch-long slivers of potato cooked in duck fat and sprinkled with agave worm salt. |
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Into her darkness, a churning synaesthesia, where her pain was the taste of old iron, scent of melon, wings of a moth brushing her cheek. |
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Silk is produced by several insects, but generally only the silk of moth caterpillars has been used for textile manufacturing. |
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A venom which is among the most potent defensive chemicals in any animal is produced by the South American silk moth genus Lonomia. |
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For instance, ornate moth caterpillars utilize pyrrolizidine alkaloids that they obtain from their food plants to deter predators. |
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The larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species also feed on the plant, notably the small emperor moth Saturnia pavonia. |
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However, since the early 1990s, Gypsy moth infestations have eroded the dominance of oak forests. |
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The dry wood of dead gorse stems provides food for the caterpillars of the concealer moth Batia lambdella. |
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The thought of the lovely Cinnabar moth and their attractive caterpillars losing their food source is so saddening. |
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There will still be plenty left for the cinnabar moth caterpillar which feeds on the leaves. |
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Epiphyas postvittana is a leaf rolling tortricid moth known to feed on 123 dicotyledonus plants in Australia and more than 250 in New Zealand. |
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It is frass you find at the calyx end of an apple when codling moth larvae are at work. |
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Mating behavior and reproductive potential in the turnip moth Agrotis segetum. |
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Apple maggot and codling moth damage fruit, but you can control them organically with sticky traps and Spinosad. |
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As one of pecans' major pests, the larvae of this one-third-inch-long gray moth tunnel into the small, immature nutlets, killing them. |
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Challenges in implementing spinosad diamondback moth resistance management strategies in intensive vegetable growing areas in Asia. |
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Other patented lures used in this trap are based on moth responses to odors from flowers of Oregon grape, honeysuckle, and gaura flowers. |
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As always, the show promises popular orchids such as moth orchids, cymbidiums and slipper orchids. |
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Mediterranean flour moth and Apricot Chalcid and the treatment shall be endorsed on the phytosanitary certification. |
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Case report on urinary myiasis due to the moth fly, Telmatoscopus albipunctata. |
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With the present paper, the African moth fly fauna now stands at 176 species in 29 genera. |
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Then there was a delightful moth infestation, which meant the whole house had to be boobytrapped with moth balls. |
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The council cannot come to an agreement with regard to repairs that need to be done and the theatre has been in moth balls for yonks. |
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The small number of moth balls that are not made from naphthalene are not affected by the restrictions. |
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Someone else said that they have an intense sense of smell so put moth balls around and under your house. |
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The foliage is also eaten by the larvae of some Lepidopteran insects including the moth willow beauty. |
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Thanks to their Indonesian roots phalaenopsis, or moth orchids, actually thrive in the humidity of centrally-heated rooms. |
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Entomologists at the lab test natural enemies of the gypsy moth and other pests. |
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In pines, the white pine weevil or the Zimmerman pine moth are possible culprits. |
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I came back and back to the same bad relationship, like a moth to the flame. |
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His first prize picture was of a burnet moth on ragwort and his third-placed photograph was of marsh helleborines on the island. |
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Copidosoma floridanum is an endoparasitic, polyembryonic, social wasp that can lay its eggs in the eggs of the moth host, Trichoplusia ni. |
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The main Welsh populations of the small but colourful moth Oecophora bractella are found here. |
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Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume. |
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From Chinese apple orchards and lone trees, Pemberton gathered dry, mummified remains of ermine moth caterpillars. |
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Caterpillars of the bird-cherry ermine moth colonised trees at the attraction and created the sight. |
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The image was created by bird cherry ermine moth caterpillars, which experts say are doing no harm to the trees. |
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County moth recorder Tom Tams said the caterpillars were most likely the larval stage of some of the less common ermine moths. |
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They hope to see up to 100 different moth species, plus many beetles and caddisflies. |
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She was a tiny woman, stern and unsmiling, who smelled strongly of peppermints and the camphor of moth balls. |
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Craves for sour things, chalks and eggs, fatty people with light brown spots on the face or liver spots, moth patches on forehead and cheek. |
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The most consumed larval insects were catepillars of a pyralid moth that inhabits Ashe juniper trees. |
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Larval survival, host plant preferences and developmental responses of the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella on wild brassicaceous species. |
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Chlorpyrifos is available as an alternative for leafroller and codling moth control in summer. |
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There are signs of liver affections as weakness, yellow complexion, liver spots, and moth spot like a saddle over the nose. |
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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. |
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To test that idea, Bradley and Hetz inserted their probes through two of the spiracles into airways of Atlas moth pupae. |
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However, some species of moth have exploited this, such as the tiger moths which produces aposematic ultrasound signals to warn bats that they are chemically protected. |
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It boasts more than 40 different species from as far away as South East Asia and South America, including the Atlas Moth, considered to be the biggest moth in the world. |
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In outdoor taste tests with 16 European robins, birds overall preferred uninfected wax moth caterpillars to ones that had been infected for at least three days. |
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Sugaring attracts some species of moth that do not readily come to light. |
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Other pests include gypsy moth caterpillars, gall midge, and scale. |
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Ragwort supports many species of wildlife including Common Broomrape Orobanche minor, fourteen species of fungi, moth larvae, thrips, plant bugs, flies, beetles and mites. |
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Yponomeuta Padella, or ermine moth caterpillars weave an intricate web over a roadside hawthorn hedge and speed sign in Catherington near Portsmouth yesterday. |
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The enigmatic little rare moth called Weaver's Wave can be seen again basking on the quartz-rich rocks, and the starry saxifrage and bog asphodel flower in the mossy runnels. |
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The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. |
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Other suggestions for mice repellents outdoors include Olbas Oil on old tea bags left on the surface of the pea and bean row, plus broken up moth balls. |
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Past episodes have affected tree foliage and the two main causal agents were the defoliating caterpillars of the leaf roller moth and the powdery mildew fungus. |
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The larvae of a number of species of moth use the leaves as a food source. |
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But, over recent years, the spectacle of the hen harrier sailing effortlessly through the frozen landscape like a giant, sleepy moth has become increasingly difficult to find. |
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The jumping beans are not galls, but seeds, with moth caterpillars inside. |
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Norway spruce cone scales are used as food by the caterpillars of the tortrix moth Cydia illutana, whereas Cydia duplicana feeds on the bark around injuries or canker. |
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Use moth balls or lavender moth-repelling scents in the wardrobe. |
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Other moth species can produce signals to jam bat echolocation. |
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Larval parasitism by native insects on the introduced stem-galling moth Epiblema strenuana Walker and its implications for biological control of Parthenium hysterophorus. |
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The American white moth can lay up to 3,000 eggs at a time and is capable of defoliating a tree in days, according to a story by Reuters News Service. |
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There is a variety of moth called the wax moth, which lives off the wax in bee hives, but why that variety of moth would be in someone's house I don't know. |
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Cow parsnips, yarrow, moth mullein, yellow sweet cover, meadow goat's beard, milkweed, and great mullein line the roads to Tillamook, Oregon and the ocean. |
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The upper wings of the moth which Jacob held were undoubtedly marked with kidney-shaped spots of a fulvous hue. But there was no crescent upon the underwing. |
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The GM variety is designed to produce its own insecticide against the European corn borer, a destructive moth whose caterpillars feast on corn ears and stalks. |
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Surveys across the state indicate gypsy moth populations are increasing and have the potential to cause defoliation in 2015, especially in eastern Pennsylvania. |
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By the early 2000s, the condition of Gipsy Moth IV, even though it continued to rest in a Greenwich dry dock hoist, had seriously deteriorated. |
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In 1970, Chichester attempted to sail 4,000 miles in twenty days, in Gipsy Moth V, but failed by one day. |
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A variety of aircraft were serviced including Hawker Hurricanes, de Havilland Tiger Moths, Hawker Audaxes, and a de Havilland Hornet Moth. |
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I've been in a microlite three times, in a helicopter and flown in a Tiger Moth. |
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Moth Ball might prove the best option in the DJMT Magnotherapy Horse Rug Nursery at Brighton. |
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Beck also collaborated with Philip Glass, Jack White, Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow, Jamie Lidell, Seu Jorge, Childish Gambino, and The Lonely Island. |
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Gipsy Moth IV was preserved alongside the Cutty Sark at Greenwich. |
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Some years ago, I had Greater Wax Moth appear in my beehives. |
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