Word: devours
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...single sitting last week Signor Benito Mussolini was observed to devour...
Boll Weevil crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in 1892, within 30 years had established itself as a permanent infestation of the whole cotton-growing South. The females lay their eggs within the unripe pods, the grubs devour the green lint and within three weeks are ready to breed themselves, In 1921, before the ravage of the weevil had been fairly discounted, the pest destroyed six million bales of cotton, cut that year's crop yield to less than eight million dollars, a disturbingly low record...
Fortnight ago from Athens, Ga., came word that Dr. H. J. Miller, professor of botany at the University of Georgia, had found an insect parasite known as bracon mellitor which he believes can be used to combat Boll Weevil. Its larvae will devour weevil larvae inside the bolls without damaging the cotton. Familiar to all entomologists is the general principle of pest control by parasites.* But before he could put his discovery into common use Dr. Miller had to hit upon a commercially practical method of spreading bracon mellitor larvae through weevil-infested cotton fields...