1. 17 These days, gypsy moth experts are more interested in the various ways the moths control themselves.

2. The crucial datum is this: the rate of gypsy-moth spread is now much more rapid than before.

3. Now, a team of scientists thinks it has discovered how the Baculovirus takes control of gypsy moth caterpillars

4. Spermatogenesis in the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L.), involves the differentiation of two sperm types, Apyrene and eupyrene

5. 15 After two years, the Gypsy Moth Commission decided to go back to a version of their original plan.

6. 5 With a perversity that the pest has become known for, the gypsy moth came roaring back a couple of years later.

7. 21 With a perversity that the pest has become known for, the gypsy moth came roaring back a couple of years later.

8. 23 In those optimistic times, the commission thought that if they just kept at it they could eventually eradicate the gypsy moth.

9. The gypsy moth is a notorious pest that feeds on birches and other deciduous trees, and outbreaks occur Cyclically across large regions of Japan

10. As an insecticide, it was first used against the gypsy moth in Massachusetts, as a less soluble and less toxic alternative to then-used Paris Green.

11. The dichotomous meiotic programs (eupyrene and Apyrene) of male gypsy moth have enormous potential as a tool for studying mechanisms responsible for chromosome pairing, synapsis, and segregation

12. The moth was accidentally introduced to America in 1869 when a windstorm upset a cage of gypsy moth caterpillars imported by a French naturalist working in Medford, Massachusetts.