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There is, for example, a tendency on the part of the gypsy-moth caterpillar to destroy utterly the forests of the United States.
By the Christmas Fire Samuel McChord Crothers
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What, I ask you, is the wisdom of taking steps to discourage the cutworm and abate the gypsy-moth when our government permits these two-legged varmints to go abroad freely and pollute shrines and wonderplaces with their scratchings, and give the nations over there a perverted notion of what the real human beings on this continent are like?
Europe Revised 1910
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Why they're good: A pest killer in two stages of its life cycle, this beetle enjoys snails, slugs, cutworms, gypsy-moth larvae, root maggots, tent caterpillars, Colorado potato beetle larvae and other pests that spend a stage of their life cycle in the soil.
The Seattle Times 2011
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FLATOW: Doesn't this seem to - well, I'm thinking about, I'm saying hey, here's a gypsy-moth, anti-gypsy-moth thing.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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A Jew years ago, gypsy-moth caterpillars invaded the section of northern New Jersey where the couple lives, and the homesteading duo soon realized that they had to take action or risk losing many of the beautiful trees on their 32-acre spread.
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