ABSTRACT
As a graduate student in insect ecology, Paula Maven often referred to entomologists who studied pesticides as “nozzleheads.” She went so far as to refer to the
Journal of Economic Entomology
as
Nozzlehead News
. Her graduate research concerned development of a computer model to predict outbreaks of the black witch on broom (
Cytisus scoparius
L.). She concluded that peak population levels occur on October 31 of each calendar year; moth flights begin at dusk and continue until midnight on that night in particular. Because of the close systematic relationship between the black witch and the wicked witch of the west, Paula originally thinks that the new species can be studied easily. She is so very wrong.
