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Introduced in Massachusetts in 1869, the European gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), is a plain-looking insect that wouldn't be noticed except in its caterpillar stage, when its markings make identification possible.
Going abroad? Avoid bringing back unintended souvenirs. 2010
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These include spruce budworm, forest tent caterpillar, jack pine budworm (Choristoneura pinus pinus), and gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar).
Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic 2009
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They are also habitat for a small indigenous fish species Aphanus dispar.
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No native freshwater fishes are known with certainty from Socotra, but populations of Aphanius dispar have been introduced to some waters as part of an anti-malaria program.
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Mors est malis, vita bonis:Vide paris sumptiónisQuam sit dispar éxitus.
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The introduction of the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), hemlock wooly adelgid (Adelges tsugae), balsam wooly-adelgid (A. piceae), as well as dogwood anthracnost fungi is altering the forest composition and habitat composition.
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She says: Every time I read a liberal post which uses language that dispar…
scattered thougths on girly-men and other gendered insults 2004
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She says: Every time I read a liberal post which uses language that dispar…
scattered thougths on girly-men and other gendered insults 2004
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Trichocephalus dispar, Ascaris lumbricoides, Oxyuris vermicularis, and eight varieties of nematodes, each of them with an awful name of its own, and unpleasant consequences to you, and, lastly, a peculiar abomination, a Filaria.
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Vbi videas quæso Lector, quomodo suo se iugulet gladio, videas inquam hic eadem de incendio Heclæ & Ætnæ opinionem & sententiam, quæ tamen lib 4. eiusdem, admodum est dispar, vt illic ad causas infernales confugiat.
biocon commented on the word dispar
Dispar means unequal, unllike (Oxford English Dictionary).
November 21, 2011
bilby commented on the word dispar
Whatt's nnot tto llike?
November 21, 2011