Word: caterpillar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...More DDT. Chief defoliator is the two-inch-long larva of the gypsy moth, a fuzzy brown caterpillar with blue and red spots that daily consumes one square foot of tree leaves (but not farm crops). Almost any kind of tree leaf from maple and pine to magnolia is meat for its mandibles. What makes the gluttonous insect so Jiard to control is that it has lacked natural enemies. It was imported from Europe to Massachusetts in 1869 by Leopold Trouvelot, a misguided naturalist who hoped to crossbreed the hardy moths with silkworms and start a new textile industry. Instead...
...Manhattan town house are covered with antique game boards. (Between shows, he used to concoct the tantalizing puzzles on the back pages of New York magazine.) Thanks to the theatrical interests of his mother, an interior decorator known to friends as "Foxy," Stephen easily became a social caterpillar on the Manhattan show-biz party circuit. At one affair he met Playwright Arthur Laurents, who was reworking Romeo and Juliet in modern dress. Lenny Bernstein was doing the music, said Laurents. The lyricist? There was none at present...
...government and 26% by B.F. Goodrich Co. At Kharg Island, a $45 million sulfur plant, built by Iran and a subsidiary of Indiana Standard Oil Co., recently began operations. Reynolds Metals Co. is putting up a $45 million aluminum plant at Arak in western Iran. In Teheran, Caterpillar Tractor Co. this week will open a $10 million parts and service headquarters, the largest in the Middle East, to maintain its big yellow tractors and graders as they change the face of the country...
...years after the spraying stopped north of the Yard, the caterpillar population skyrocketed...
However, the ivy caterpillar population has the nasty habit of peaking in June-just about the time when the old grad population peaks in the Yard. A year or two without spraying there could defoliate the ivy for several Commencements...