Sentence examples for household pests from inspiring English sources

The Oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis) is considered one of the filthiest of household pests.

Regardless of their identity, household pests can have us crawling the walls in short order.

Very few household pests destroy crops; fleas and bedbugs are nightmarish, but not if you're a field of corn.

Insects also figure in small paintings by Tazeen Qayyum, who renders cockroaches and other household pests with extraordinary delicacy.

Ensign wasps are beneficial to humans because all species are parasites of cockroaches, which are common household pests.

They are common household pests and can spoil the taste of some fruits (e.g., raspberries contaminated by stinkbugs).

The German cockroach (Blattella germanica), a common household pest sometimes erroneously called a waterbug, is light brown with two dark stripes on the prothoracic region.

In the New York premiere of "The Particulars" Mr. Silliman plays Gordon, a persnickety young crank frustrated by the limits of household pest control.

The diminutive household pest offers a surprising variety of open questions that the undergraduates address working in pairs throughout the course.

Argentine ants have been introduced by humans to many of the world's Mediterranean-type ecosystems, where they disrupt ecosystems by displacing native species, cause indirect damage to crops by tending parasitic homoptera (such as aphids and scale insects), and are a common household pest.

Eavesdropping on microbe-cockroach conversations could lead to better ways to control this common household pest.