'kill pests' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing ways to address an infestation of pests. For example: "The best way to get rid of these ants is to kill pests that are inside the house, and then use preventive measures to keep new ones from entering."
REPORTER AT LARGE about man-made chemicals used to kill pests, which are contaminating our soil, air & water.
Technology means a lot of things: drip irrigation, no-till farming, more efficient ways to use fertilisers and kill pests.
The product differs from most commercially-produced olive oils, which largely rely on fertilisers and treatments to feed the soil, kill pests and keep weeds at bay.
And Pamela Hadad-Hurst, executive director of the New York Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, said biotech crops can kill pests as well as beneficial insects.
Biological control — the practice of strategically using organisms to kill pests — has been common in agriculture since the nineteenth century, but it is relatively new to conservation.
That strain is based on the naturally occurring soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis and mimics its production of a toxin to kill pests.
The pesticide, in use in Suffolk for about 10 years, is sprayed from trucks to kill pest mosquitoes and also to reduce the health risk of mosquito-born West Nile virus.
Using a similar principle, biological control programs use sex pheromones as an evolutionary trap to kill pest insects.
For example, pheromone traps used to attract and kill pest insects might long retain their effectiveness because reduced responses to these pheromones could reduce mating success (Witzgall et al. 2010).
"They think they can get by being a nuisance, just pests, until they meet Gene Simmons, who kills pests dead".
BT corn contains a bacterial gene that causes it to produce a toxin that kills pests that eat the plant.
