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| Date: | 06 21 1934 |
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| Description: | Charles Fluke, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, examines a tray of insect specimens. |
| Date: | 03 20 1977 |
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| Description: | A mural painted on the side of the Red Caboose Day Care Center at 654 Williamson Street. Images in the mural include children playing, grasshoppers, a turt... |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
| Date: | 04 27 1949 |
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| Description: | At left, Billy Powers of 306 Norris Court shows his butterfly collection to classmate Dennis Rose, 1028 Clymer Place. The butterfly collection won first p... |
| Date: | 10 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Bob West has discovered that life in the underground ant colony consists of building homes, storing food and caring for babies. The ant colony has been a p... |
| Date: | 05 1925 |
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| Description: | Man showing pest damage to a tree. Original caption reads: "Showing where tree had been girdled by pitch moth larvae, and later grew larger above and below... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bulletin urging farmers to kill grasshoppers with poisoned bran bait, featuring an illustration of a hand spreading bait for grasshoppers to eat. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Illustration made for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to demonstrate the danger of pests, including diseases carried by insects... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A cecropia moth, Hylophora Cecropia, on a potted geranium. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A profile view of a cecropia moth, Hylophora Cecropia, on a potted geranium. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A student is using a pointer to direct the attention of seated students toward a poster labeled "Life Cycle of a Fly" during a lesson on the dangers of hou... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden. |
| Date: | 01 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Problems of insect and plant disease control are discussed at the 13th annual Insect Control Conference at the Hotel Loraine. About 120 representatives of ... |
| Date: | 01 06 1959 |
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| Description: | Problems of insect and plant disease control were discussed at the 13th annual Insect Control Conference at the Hotel Loraine. About 120 representatives of... |
| Date: | 01 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Problems of insect and plant disease control are discussed at the 13th annual Insect Control Conference at the Hotel Loraine. Talks were delivered at morni... |
| Date: | 01 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Problems of insect and plant disease control are discussed at the 13th annual Insect Control conference at the Hotel Loraine. About 120 representatives of ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wil-Kil Pest Control building at 705 Williamson Street. The sign above the entrance features a rat and a cockroach depicted in neon. |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Flat sculpture or sign of a monarch butterfly attached to the side of a brick wall. Leaves are hanging from branches of a tree from the upper right and par... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Bill Marr swatting at wasps in the great outdoors. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Bill Marr smiling as he is swatting at wasps. |
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