Sentence examples for for a pest from inspiring English sources

The work is perhaps less glamorous than conducting displays at bird of prey centres or on the circuit of county shows, but it pays a lot better: "Working for a pest control company means you can live," says Bishop.

Lineatin can act as a lure for mass trapping of the ambrosia beetle; therefore, AMVL is being studied as a possible precursor for a pest control reagent.

After his mother died when he was 11, he helped raise his younger sister, supporting her financially with many different occupations: stocking food in the grocery store, hanging up fliers for a pest control company, checking IDs at the door of a now defunct downtown club.

Of the 350 700 possible host pest combinations in the database, 15 328 (4.37%) were confirmed host records for a pest; we assumed (conservatively) that the rest were incompatible interactions.

The number of known hosts of a pest or pathogen is a good indicator of the expected overall breadth of hosts for a pest or pathogen, which, when combined with the phylogenetic signal in host range, presents a simple predictor of which hosts a particular pest or pathogen is likely to attack.

You can apply cockroach repellant tablets and ant repellant powder to your cabinet or you can go for a pest control treatment once in every 6 months.

Shaw is best known for being a pest and an agitator.

And so we'll be collecting readers' questions about how to evict their unwanted roommates for Gary Braness, a pest management consultant and owner of Yosemite Environmental Services, to answer.

Second, coconut palms provide shelter and food for rats, a pest unintentionally introduced to the islands by humans.

"The name of the game is prevention," said Jerry Quinlan, an entomologist for Assured Environments, a pest control company in Manhattan.

For instance, ads for "Rough on Rats," a pest control product, featured a picture of a pigtailed Chinese man with his head tilted back, devouring a live rodent.