Sentence examples for destructive pests from inspiring English sources

They are destructive pests.

Fruit flies are one of the most destructive pests worldwide.

The pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella) is one of the most destructive pests of cotton.

And with good reason: They eat a number of environmentally destructive pests, including aphids.

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.

Locusts are the most destructive pest.

In areas where it has been introduced, primarily Australia, its ecological role is as a 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.

Radopholus similis is a migratory endoparasitic nematode that is known to be a destructive pest of bananas, peppers, coffee, citrus crops and many other agronomic and horticultural crops1,2,3,4.