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Showing 1 to 20 of 204 for “"moth"”.
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Role of bats as natural pest control agents of moth pests (false codling moth and carob moth) on citrus orchard
… pest outbreaks, especially that of false codling moth (FCM) and carob moth (CM), important pests of citrus. The study first gives a general introduction of the importance of landscape heterogeneity within agricultural landscapes, beneficial effects that insectivorous bats have in agricultural …
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Bioeconomics Of Invasive Species: The Gypsy Moth
… management of an invasive species. It uses gypsy moth as an example to examine the optimal control of invasive species. This dissertation is composed of five chapters. Chapter one provides an overview of the current bioeconomic research and the main questions I want to address in this …
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Sonar Jamming in the Bat-Moth Arms Race
Bats and moths are an example of a diffuse evolutionary arms race - a situation where groups of prey and predator species evolve increasingly sophisticated means to out-compete the other. Chapter one provides an overview of this arms race. Bats capture night-flying insects using highly …
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An Ethnographic Study of The Moth Detroit StorySLAM
<p>The Moth Detroit StorySLAM is one of many storytelling events staged in urban bar environments. Unlike the increasingly aged audiences attending the National Storytelling Festival and similar story festivals, the Detroit StorySLAM consistently yields <q>at capacity</q> crowds of college students …
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Chemoreceptors From the Hawk Moth Manduca Sexta L
In this study I cloned and characterized four M. sexta chemoreceptors. Differential screening of a male antennal cDNA library before the publication of the Drosophila melanogaster genome yielded one G coupled-protein receptor that had no matches in Genbank databases and the results of RT-PCR and …
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Mating Success in Low-Density Gypsy Moth Populations
… disruption on the mating success of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L), in low-density populations. The gypsy moth is an insect pest of hardwood forests in many regions of the world. The discovery of the sex pheromone disparlure (cis-7,8-epoxy-2-methyloctadecane) produced by females marked …
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Some aspects of the life history and bionomics of the Fig moth, Ephestia cautella (Wlk.), and some comparisons with the mediterranean flour moth, E. kuhniella (Zell) and the tobacco moth, E. elutella (Hb.)
In this paper, the morphological differences among the three common species of Ephestia have been confirmed by the present author, so that they may be easily identified. The life history of E. cautella has also been worked out, as well as some aspects of the life history of E. elutelle. and E. …
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Experimental work with bait traps for the control of the codling moth, Carpocapsa pomonella, and the oriental fruit moth, Grapholitha molesta
… the most effective bait for the oriental fruit moth. Goulac 1 part, brown sugar 1 part, and water 40 parts was a very effective codling moth bait. Quart oil cans when not painted lasted only one season. Less than 50 percent of the eggs had been deposited when the female moths were captured. Data …
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The killing effect of vegetable, animal, and mineral oils on the eggs of the codling moth and the oriental fruit moth
… supplementary method of control for the codling moth and the oriental fruit moth. The reasons for undertaking this problem are twofold: first, the codling moth has become exceedingly difficult to hold in check; and, second, in the case of the oriental fruit moth there is no satisfactory method of …
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Welfare Impacts Of False Codling Moth Threatening California Oranges
… pest management strategies of False Codling Moth (FCM) threatening California's oranges are examined. Different economic agents along the supply chain of fresh oranges and orange products in the United States are considered, including consumers, retailers, wholesalers, and growers. A partial …
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Gypsy moth egg development: a model of phenological events
A phenological model of gypsy moth egg development is proposed that distinguishes three phases of egg development, prediapause, diapause and postdiapause. A technique of measuring respiration rates of individual eggs was developed and respiration rate was used as a physiological variable to …
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Egg mass sampling plans for gypsy moth management programs
The goal of this research was to develop gypsy moth egg mass sampling plans that reflect the influence of habitat, changes in egg mass distribution, and provide populations densities or density categories for making control decisions. Sequential egg mass sampling plans for gypsy moth management …
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Moth: a hybrid threat model for improving software security testing
… Hybrid Threat Modeling framework and tool called MOTH (Modeling Threats using Hybrid techniques). Using the MOTH tool developed using Eclipse rich client platform, experimental results with an e-commerce web application downloaded from GitHub namely BodgeIt store shows an improved SQL injection …
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Nantucket pine tip moth infestations in relation to stand type
The Nantucket pine tip moth, Rhyacionis frustrana (Comstock) Is a common pest of young pines. In the eastern United States all species of yellow pines are attacked to some degree except longleaf pine, Pinus palustrla Mill. (Yates 1960). Chemical control of the tip moth has been demonstrated to be …
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Ecological niche responses of small mammals to gypsy moth disturbance
… sites at four different stages of gypsy moth disturbance: a high tree mortality site, a disturbance in process site, a disturbance recovery site, and an undisturbed reference site. More specifically, the study was designed to identify changes in habitat structure that would influence …
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Forest edges enhance mate-finding in the European gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar
… in an invasive defoliator, the European gypsy moth. Adult European gypsy moth males locate mates by following pheromones released by flightless females. Reduced mate-finding was expected in fields and near forest edges based on geographic variation in invasion rates and pheromone plume …
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Like a Moth to the Flame: Modernity and Mary Wigman 1886-1973
From her birth in 1886 to her death in 1973, the life of German dancer Mary Wigman spanned the Wilhelmine Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the post-war years. She stands as a seminal figure in what has come to be known as the modern dance. Her Ausdruckstanz or dance of expression …
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A 1-mW vibration energy harvesting system for moth flight-control applications
… to build a 1-mW energy-harvesting system for moth flight control applications. The crepuscular hawk moth Manduca sexta is the chosen test subject. This project is part of the Hybrid Insect MEMS (HI-MEMS) program. The objective of the program is to establish an interface between adult insect …
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