The phrase "a range of pests" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing various types of pests that may affect a particular area, environment, or situation.
Example: "The garden was infested with a range of pests, including aphids, caterpillars, and beetles."
Alternatives: "a variety of pests" or "an assortment of pests".
But experimental efforts against a range of pests in South America, Mexico and Africa have produced promising results.
He noted that predators usually disperse widely and can attack a range of pests: "Not only can they synchronously attack different insect pests in one field, but they can also colonise different habitats in different seasons".
A range of pests with different kinds of parasitisms were observed viz., simple-, super-, multiple-, hyper-, auto-, and cleptoparasitisms.
New biofuel crops, whether derived from existing food crops such as maize or representing second-generation biomass crops, will be attacked by a range of pests despite claims that they might be immune from pests.
A range of pests attack cacti in cultivation.
These metabolites have been implicated in resistance to a range of pests and pathogens including insects, fungi, nematodes and weeds [ 43].
That kind of warming level has a really strong influence on ecosystems and influence on risks for a range of pest and disease outbreaks".
We have studied long-distance dispersal in a range of pest-controlling terrestrial spiders that are important predators within agricultural ecosystems.
However, as I have argued above, if pest genotypes exhibit a strong fitness trade-off across crop regions, mortality will be held nearly constant across a range of pest adaptation if the landscape is intercropped with contrasting plant colours (Fig. 2B).
"We are under an unprecedented level of threat from a range of exotic pests and diseases, a lot associated with the international trade in live plants," said the Forestry Commission.
Recently, anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD) methods have been studied for their effects against a range of soil pests and pathogens.
