Sentence examples for invasive pests from inspiring English sources

Understanding these invasions will increase our understanding of how to prevent the introduction of invasive pests in the future.

Contamination of sold plants with invasive pests and disease is a potential problem for all online sales.

French winegrowers face other new invasive pests thanks to globalisation, he added.

Scientists said research should allay fears that genetic engineering per se would make plants more prone to becoming vigorous, invasive pests.

Raupp, who has been studying non-native species for forty-one years, called its arrival on our shores "one of the most productive incidents in the history of invasive pests in the United States".

Methyl bromide is a toxic gas that has been used since the 1960's to sterilize soils, fumigate grain-milling operations, and treat exports and imports to kill invasive pests.

The red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, is a major invasive pest in the Southern United States and other countries.

The toads are considered an invasive pest because they are toxic to many creatures that try to eat them, including snakes.

Even the lowly garlic mustard, now outlawed in Connecticut, where I live, as an invasive pest, gets a turn at my table.

But they also called it an invasive pest that could be dangerous, as when it took hold on highway edges and medians, obstructing drivers' views.

An invasive pest of South American origin, Tuta absoluta – a tomato pest – was reported for the first time in Senegal in 2012, and is moving south through the continent.