How To Use gypsy moth In A Sentence
- 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.
- These range from Gypsy moths to invasive plants and exotic diseases like West Nile virus and Monkey pox.
- In those optimistic times, the commission thought that if they just kept at it they could eventually eradicate the gypsy moth.
- The orange, purple and silver butterfly vanished in the 1990s, possibly aided by man's use of parasitic wasps and flies brought in to combat the gypsy moth - another whopping human error.
- Researchers at some locations focus on beneficial insects like wasps to control insect pests such as alfalfa weevils or gypsy moths.
- The caterpillars of the gypsy moth are destructive defoliators that feed primarily on oak trees causing growth loss, crown dieback, and tree mortality.
- Now a team of scientists thinks they have discovered how the baculovirus takes control of gypsy moth caterpillars. NPR Topics: News
- The introduction of the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), hemlock wooly adelgid (Adelges tsugae), balsam wooly-adelgid (A. piceae), as well as dogwood anthracnost fungi is altering the forest composition and habitat composition. Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
- The caterpillars of the gypsy moth are destructive defoliators that feed primarily on oak trees causing growth loss, crown dieback, and tree mortality.
- Gypsy moth egg hatch occurs at about the time of budburst of red and black oaks.