Sentence examples for a pest on from inspiring English sources
Vardy, by his own admission, is a "pest" on the pitch.
"At the same time, they were also persecuted as a pest on pecan orchards and trapped in considerable numbers for the pet trade", said Dr Martin in email.
Nowadays, Shepard says, a mime is often considered just "a pest on the street, making a wall and asking for money".
Steve Kerr (the little circle on the upper right corner of the diagram) stood in the corner so that John Stockton, a pest on defense, couldn't help against Jordan.
Reyes will lead off when he returns, Manager Jerry Manuel said, and Luis Castillo will see a lot of pitches behind him, letting Reyes be a pest on the bases.
Although higher R. pedestris populations were not observed in the field, the possibility of R. pedestris becoming a pest on this newly developed soybean variety can't be ruled out since some of its biological attributes were positively affected by feeding on Agakong seeds.
Making a pest of himself on screen to those in power, Mr. Moore is also an expert director and polemicist, and "Sicko" is the only nominee to reach a large audience, making more than $25 million in domestic theaters.
Host plants were grouped to genus; if a pest occurs on any species in a genus, that genus was considered susceptible.
After being used as a biocontrol agent against aphids for decades without harmful consequences, the Asian harlequin ladybird Harmonia axyridis has suddenly become an invasive pest on a worldwide scale.
As aphid specialization seems to occur at the host plant family or tribe level [ 8, 45, 46], the precise tuning of population dynamics parameters on a preferred and abundant resource species may lead to a phytophagous insect species becoming a major pest on this species but less detrimental on other crops of the same family.
Instead, it is possible that the Cuban slug (Veronicella cubensis L. Pfeiffer), a seed predator that is considered a major pest on Rota but is only present in low abundance on Guam and Saipan (Robinson and Hollingsworth 2004; H. S. Rogers, unpubl. data), is responsible for this change.
