Sentence examples for foreign pests from inspiring English sources

This imported seed, critics said, could introduce foreign pests and diseases, ruining the already impoverished Indian farmer.

The UK's forests are under "unprecedented threat" from foreign pests and diseases, the Forestry Commission said last week.

The UK's forests are under "unprecedented threat" from foreign pests and diseases, according to the government department responsible for the protection of forests and woodlands.

Robert Mangan, Kika de la Garza's coordinator, said researchers often traveled to other countries to learn how outbreaks of foreign pests and diseases could affect agricultural products.

Every year, we spend well over a hundred billion dollars combatting them — about a quarter of our gross national agricultural product is lost to foreign pests and weeds — and tens of billions importing and selling exotic plants and pets.

In addition, foreign products that may carry pests dangerous only to Hawaii can enter the United States on the mainland and later be shipped to Hawaii as domestic cargo, making foreign pests difficult to detect.

The chances of bringing in a foreign pest or disease may be small, but the consequences can be enormous.

The reaction of Boeing, the European aircraft-maker's biggest rival, suggests it fears a nasty sting from this foreign pest.

Several years ago, a Cornell study group estimated costs to the US of foreign agricultural pests at $120 billion per year.

The increased detections of foreign forest pests result mainly from the use of shipping containers, direct point-to-point delivery of shipments, the increase in the volume of trade, and a broadening of trading partners, especially with the Pacific Rim and Asia.

All these pests and diseases are foreign imports often brought in on ornamental and commercial trees, along with the soil they grow in.