Sentence examples for become pest from inspiring English sources

The NYCHA recruited, hired, and trained nine public housing residents to become pest control technicians in a dedicated unit to carry out IPM in intervention buildings.

Only a few species have become pests.

When insects that break down dead trees invade structural timbers in buildings, they become pests.

They are vegetarian and in cultivated areas sometimes become pests by eating melons, grain, and squash.

This has happened in a number of communities up north that suddenly find themselves with black vultures and turkey vultures that become pests".

Immigrant species could become pests or disrupt ecosystems in their new homes, they could become victims of predators and they may bring new diseases or parasites.

White-tailed deer, normally a cherished North American game animal, have even become pests in suburbs and cities in the United States and Canada.

In Australia and southeastern South Africa, they have become pests and are controlled largely by larvae of moth species from Opuntia's original native habitat.

Numerous rodents, including marmots, jerboas, hamsters, and field mice, have increased in numbers to become pests, now that nearly all the steppes are under cultivation.

In the early 20th century, Himalayan tahrs were introduced for hunting purposes to New Zealand, where their numbers have grown to tens of thousands and they have become pests to indigenous vegetation.

Mr. Kintisch makes the same point, in a way, beginning many of his chapters with tales of well-meaning efforts gone awry (species brought in to control pests that themselves become pests, irrigation projects that end up poisoning the soil and so on).