...Betsy Mendelsohn The Great Gypsy Moth War: A History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890–1901 . Robert J. Spear . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring the most important ways that indigenous people crafted...

..., as this reviewer sees it, is will anyone really listen to her advice? James A. Vlasich Southern Utah University The Great Gypsy Moth War: A History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890-1901. By Robert J. Spear. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. 336 pp., $34.95...

... Entomologists—Address by the President..." Science 94 (Oct. 16, 1896): 544 Rosenberg, No Other Gods, 153-72. 10 A. S. Packard Jr., "The Mode of Extrication of Silk-Worm Moths from their Cocoons," American Naturalist 12 (June 1878): 379 L. Trouvelot, "The American Silk Worm (Concluded)," American...

... to DDT ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2008 ), 108 , 95 – 96 ; Arkansas Industrial University Experiment Station , The Peach Tree Borer and the Codling Moth , Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 3 ( Little Rock : Press Printing , 1888 ), 3 – 5 . McWilliams identifies...

... is fascinating. Perhaps the best article is David Dendy's ac? count of the constantly shifting battle between Okanagan apple growers and the apple-devouring codling moth. Lacking the preachiness of many eco? logical histories, it is a thorough, balanced, and thoughtful model of how environmental history should...

... for white settlement. The codling moth, soil salinization, and market competition stymied commercial orcharding prior to World War II but not the significance of the apple in shaping New Mexico's cultural landscapes. Protecting the old Spanish orchard in Manzano, New Mexico, for tourism also reinforced...

... exponentially the danger of introducing unwanted organisms to New Zealand. McLean and Shoebridge highlight the major and very expensive breaches of New Zealand s biosecurity in recent years such as the introduction of the Varroa destructor bee mite, the Painted Apple Moth, and the freshwater algae didymo. Yet...

... and the apple-devouring codling moth. Lacking the preachiness of many eco? logical histories, it is a thorough, balanced, and thoughtful model of how environmental history should be done. If one is seeking a broad introduction to the agricultural or rural history of British Columbia, this collection...

... , #x0201C;Spruce Budworm in the Eastern United States,” USDA Forest Service Northeastern Area, http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/fidls/sbw/budworm.htm (accessed Oct. 12, 2012); W. Cranshaw et al., “Douglas-fir Tussock Moths,” Colorado State University Extension, http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs...

... forced companies to install scrub stacks to recover arsenic from the flues of copper-roasting ovens. What to do with the growing piles of toxic pollution? Spread it on the crops! By the 1920s, arsenic dusts laced the apple groves of the western United States as a cheap pesticide for codling moths...

... in Lawrence County contracted by nearly 40 percent by 1919. A year later, the codling moth transcended the barriers of geographic isolation in numbers enough to damage the Spearfish Valley apple crop during the 1920s, but still, there were a few good apple years left prior to World War II. Afflicted...

..., the orchards at Moses Cone were sprayed heavily with lead arsenate to reduce pests, most notably the codling moth. Unfortunately, these chemicals had a residual effect, and over one hundred years later, Moses Cone soils are still affected. The legacy effect of the contaminated soils on the park's surrounding...

... of the Codling Moth, Progress Report No. 12 (Agricultural Experiment Station , University of California , Davis , 1929 ). 86. “Electric Plow Kills All Pests,” Popular Science Monthly 111 , no. 5 (Nov. 1927 ): 41 ; “Electricity Speeds Up Crops; Electro-Cultivation Raises Plants in Record Time...

... H. Maxwell Lefroy , "Moth Borer in Sugar-Cane," West Indian Bulletin1 ( 1900 ): 327 -53 Howard, A History of Applied Entomology, 446-51 Paolo Pallidino , Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture . The Making of Scientific Careers in North America, 1885–1985 (London: Harwood...

... bollworm. They discovered that the lar- val stage was the most injurious because the larvae burrowed into the bolls and penetrated into the cotton seeds. Having found that the larvae could sur? vive in cotton seeds for two years and that the adult moth could not fly far, entomologists concluded that human...

..., supported, and especially fed with great care for an entire month until it is safely cocooned. Then the vast majority of metamorphosing moths (save a lucky few selected for breeding future crops) need to be destroyed to prevent them from breaking through the filaments of their valuable cocoons. This ending...

... Castonguay, "Naturalizing Federalism," 1-34; Pauly, "The Beauty and Menace of the Japanese Cherry Trees," 51-73. On the brown-tail moth, see, Castonguay, Protection des cultures, construction de la nature, 30-31, 45-48; C. Lee Campbell et al., The Formative Years of Plant Pathology in the United States...

..., no apple growers go on holiday over Easter! After picking time we could have a break except of course we had to go back to school. They used to tie cardboard around the bottom of the trees and collect the codling moth grubs, which earned them a shilling for every dozen of them. The work never stopped...

.... Talekar, who initiated the pest control program on diamondback moth ( Plutella xylostella ), a major pest of cruciferous vegetables like cabbages, and S. Shanmugasundaram, who contributed to the center's legume program by introducing AVRDC's mung bean accessions to South Asia and by improving the texture...

... . Robinson A. S. . “ Influence of Anoxia during Gamma Irradiation on the Fertility and Competitiveness of the Adult Male Codling Moth, Laspeyresia pomonella (L.) .” Radiation Research 61 ( 1975 ): 526 – 34 . Scruggs Charles G. The Peaceful Atom and the Deadly Fly . Austin : Pemberton...