‘Maid of Athens’
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‘Maid of Athens’, a poem by Lord
Byron, written 1810.
The ‘Maid’ is said to have been the 12-year-old daughter of Mrs Macri, a widow whose husband had been vice-consul in Athens.
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WEEVILS TO WAGE WAR ON WEEDS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/13/2005; ; 700+ words
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Pepper weevils: new trap aids IPM. (integrated pest management)
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CSIRO: Weevils to protect our Jurassic heritage.
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Weevil moves south
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Boll weevils near extinction in Mississippi
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What boll weevils really eat, especially in subtropical climes.
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; ...eradication of the boll weevils keen to feed on and lay...such areas. The boll weevil is a small beetle, measuring...discoveries about boll weevil feeding on fruit endocarps...been regarded as boll weevil food sources. But it...coincidence that boll weevils were first found in the...
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Boll Weevil's really cookin'; chain bores into 7 new sites. (Boll Weevil Systems Inc.)0 (Company Profile)
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weevil
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Boll Weevil
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boll weevil
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...campaign. By the end of the century the weevil had disappeared from from most of...cotton boll, or seed pod, where weevils feed on the cotton fibers. Weevils...generations occur each season. The weevil's resistance to some poisons, and...
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Weevils
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Weevils Weevils (Curculionidae...5-5 cm). A weevil is easily distinguished...their life history, weevils are of considerable...or more species of weevil. Although it is...such as the grain weevil ( Sitophilus granarius...as the cotton boll weevils ( Anthonomus barbirostris...
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Boll Weevil Infestation
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
BOLL WEEVIL INFESTATION Boll weevils, small grey-brown...money. Responses to boll weevil infestation were varied...heat killed developing weevils. Various forms of insecticides...effective in managing boll weevil infestation. During...
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