Sentence examples for mode of pest from inspiring English sources

I saw the hawk yesterday: I thought that was a nice way to get rid of them," referring to London mayor Ken Livingstone's favoured mode of pest control.

His sport in the South American jungle was blasting innocent melons to a pulp, and in Mexico City he tried out a novel mode of pest control, stringing up live mice and blowing their little heads off.

At present, chemical insecticides remain the main mode of pest control.

Each active ingredient has a specific mode of action for controlling a pest, and each active ingredient has its own possible side effects on the wildlife and humans exposed to it.

Perhaps our definition of pest will change.

They have irrevocably consigned themselves to the status of pest.

There is a quite good agreement between observed occurrence of pest and assessed occurrence of pest.

The major aspects of remote sensing are timely estimates of agriculture crop yield, prediction of pest.

Older children were also aware of pest control activities and the impacts of pests, particularly pigs and possums.  .

The chapter further discusses the registration and communication of pest sightings, pest detection and preventive measures.

Wasps are important to natural and biological pest control because they are predators or parasitoids of pest arthropods.