Sentence examples for devastating pest from inspiring English sources

The rabbit went on to become a devastating pest.

These are a devastating pest, and controlling an infestation is costly.

The seeds, known as MON810, are modified so that the corn produces a chemical that kills the larvae of the corn borer, a devastating pest.

Brown planthopper (BPH) is the most devastating pest of rice.

The combined effect of the two types makes BPH an internationally explosive and devastating pest of rice.

BPH is the most devastating pest of the rice crop and severe infestation causes "hopper burn" symptom in rice fields, resulting in complete death of rice plants.

That makes it at least possible to envisage a day when gene-drive technology will be deployed to vanquish diseases that have killed billions of people, deter devastating pests, and protect endangered species like the black-footed ferret.

Now we're being overrun by Asian longhorn beetle, hemlock wooly adelgid, white pine blister rust and other devastating pests coming to the U.S. on imports," Dr. Liebhold said.

Molluscan herbivores, such as slugs and snails, are devastating pests in agriculture and small gardens.

A few broomrape species (e.g., P. aegyptiaca, P. ramosa, O. cernua, O. crenata, and O. minor) have become devastating pests of important crop plants, affecting their growth and resource allocation and imparting significant losses in yield [ 43].

In planta insect bioassay on F1 hybrid progenies exhibited detrimental effect on the performance of devastating target pest, Lipaphis erysimi.