gypsy
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"All he wanted was to be home with me and his pet kitty, Charley, playing his gypsy guitar."
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023
The gypsy moth was renamed the spongy moth by the Entomological Society of America last year, and the former Hottentot Teal, a duck, was renamed the Blue-Billed Teal by the American Ornithological Society.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023
In 2022, for instance, the Entomological Society of America adopted spongy moth for the invasive moth Lymantria dispar, getting rid of gypsy moth.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 5, 2023
This spring, I was finally introduced to its very hungry caterpillars, the larval stage of the insect formerly known as the gypsy moth before it was renamed this year.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2022
In eastern forests of Canada and the United States bacterial insecticides may be one important answer to the problems of such forest insects as the budworms and the gypsy moth.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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