The Great Gypsy Moth War: The History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890-1901
The untold story behind the importation and release of the gypsy moth in North America.
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"Urban Trees and Urban Environmental History in a Latin American City: Belo Horizonte, 1897–1964"
Regina Horta Duarte uses the unannounced leveling of 350 Ficus benjamina along the principal avenue of Belo Horizonte, Brazil in November 1963 as the starting point for discussing the relationship between nature and society in Latin American urban environments.
Winged Scourge
An animated Disney film featuring the Seven Dwarves, showing various methods of combating the transmission of malaria by Anopheles mosquitoes.
Introduction of Cactoblastis cactorum ("cactus moth") in Australia
This South American cactus moth is used to combat the spread of the prickly pear.
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