Sentence examples for a pest that from inspiring English sources

This cornfield might need more water, perhaps, or that orchard could be suffering from a pest that needs tackling immediately.

Like other European vineyards, these were decimated by successive plagues of phylloxera, a pest that feeds on grape vines.

They argue that fox hunting is necessary to control a pest that kills livestock and that the ban will end thousands of jobs in already depressed rural areas.

(Picture book; ages 3 to 5) "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" is like a pest that refuses to go away.

The Agriculture Department said the corn met the statutory requirements for approval, in that it was not a pest that would harm plants.

A related, cyst-forming species, the sugar beet nematode (H. schachtii), is a pest that has restricted acreage of sugar beets in Europe, Asia, and America.

To date, there is yet to be an effector from an insect pest that is known to directly interfere with the host UPS.

Peridroma saucia (Hubner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a polyphagous pest that attacks nearly all vegetable fields in Turkey.

Drosophila suzukii, the spotted wing drosophila (SWD), is currently a major pest that causes severe economic losses to thin-skinned, small fruit growers in North America and Europe.

The bio-oil also killed 100% of Colorado potato beetles, a resistant pest that can destroy potato crops.

And vineyards have hired Dr. Pieschel to aim her goats at thickets of wild blackberry, which can harbor sharpshooters, an insect pest that also attacks grapes.