Sentence examples for destructive pest from inspiring English sources
Locusts are the most destructive pest.
"The agricultural people have the New World screwworm" — a particularly destructive pest also known as the blowfly — "they'd love to get rid of in South America.
The city has been battling the destructive pest since it was first detected in the United States in 1996 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
The grapefruit-sized pika (Ochotona curzoniae) has long been considered a destructive pest.
One of Colombia's main coffee producing regions is seeing its harvest threatened by a tiny but destructive pest.
The confused flour beetle Tribolium confusum Jacquelin du Val (Coleopteran: Tenebrionidae) is the most destructive pest of stored products worldwide.
They are destructive pests.
The pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella) is one of the most destructive pests of cotton.
The corn, which is known as Bt corn, is engineered to produce the pesticide bacillus thuringiensis, which protects growing plants from destructive pests.
The department said less than 1percentt of the nation's corn seed supply for spring planting was tainted with traces of the component in StarLink that protects young plants from destructive pests.
At other times, spraying has been reasonably effective against the target insect but has let loose a Pandora's box of destructive pests that had never before been abundant enough to cause trouble.
