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DURING 1954 and 1955 we investigated an outbreak of the gypsy moth in middle Slovakia and collected material from infested oak forests. In some of the caterpillars reared from these samples the fæces were abnormally white. Examination of these under the optical microscope revealed the presence of great quantities of polyhedra-like bodies. This was unexpected, since only one type of polyhedral disease has so far been described from the gypsy moth, a nuclear polyhedrosis affecting many organs of the caterpillar but not the gut. Infected larvæ progressively lost their appetite and finally died, revealing in dissected specimens a milky white gut.
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VEBER, J. A Cytoplasmic Polyhedral Disease of the Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar L.). Nature 179, 1304–1305 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1791304b0
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