Europe's Last Dancing Bears Sheltered After Years of Abuse

...y cuddled and kissed, cried and cursed: the Stanev gypsy family parted with their three brown bears, the la... forced to 'dance' on hot metal plates while their gypsy masters played music on their rebecs. Once fully t..., beaten and often inebriated with liquor by their gypsy owners. Two bears at the park have already died of...

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Hunchback

..., several... Anthony Hopkins delivers an Emmy-nominated turn as Quasimodo, the famed hunchbacked bell ringer who falls in love with the gorgeous gypsy dancer Esmerelda (Lesley-Anne... ...

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Edge density key to controlling gypsy moth spread

Controlling population peaks on the edges of the gypsy moth range may help to slow their invasion into virgin territory, according to a team of researchers. "Slowing the spread of the gypsy moth is a priority in forest management in the U.S.," says Ottar Bjornstad, associate professor of entomolo...

Acoustical Meeting, Nov. 10-14, 2008 in Miami, Florida

... one day to listen in on faint bug whispers. In preliminary lab trials, David Swanson and his colleagues at Pennsylvania State University placed a gypsy moth in a 200 kHz ultrasonic beam. They chose this frequency because anything below about 40 kHz would scare the moth into thinking a bat was attackin...

Gypsy moth management made more efficient, cost-effective

...icient and cost-effective approach for controlling gypsy moths and other invasive pests has been created by...he University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. gypsy moths, which were introduced to North America in t...ng time and money is of the utmost importance with gypsy moths, which have by now spread throughout the nor...

Japanese beetle may help fight hemlock-killing insect

...s would not be effective, said Scott Salom, professor of entomology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and HWA project leader. Unlike the gypsy moth, which lives in tree canopies, you cannot spray pesticides over a forest in an aerial flight to kill the hemlock woolly adelgid, which lives at t...

For many insects, winter survival is in the genes

...t-shock proteins, Hsp70, in five additional insect species that aren't related to the flesh fly. Each insect is a fairly common agricultural pest: the gypsy moth, the European corn borer, the walnut husk maggot, the apple maggot and the tobacco hornworm. Collectively, these species cause millions of dollar...

Most widely used organic pesticide requires help to kill

...her insects," Broderick explains. The Wisconsin study was conducted using antibiotics to clear all of the native bacteria that colonize the gut of gypsy moth caterpillars. Exposed to Bt, the caterpillars whose intestinal tracts had been cleared of their native microbial communities showed none of the a...

Bugs, even 'bad' ones, can be educationally beneficial, new book says

...ap-sucking aphids, also are featured. The history of how many insects were spread to the United States also is discussed. For example, in 1869, the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) arrived in Medford, Mass., from Europe when the French naturalist Leopold Trouvelot brought them to use in silk culture experi...

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