Sentence examples for most devastating pest from inspiring English sources

Brown planthopper (BPH) is the most devastating pest of rice.

BPH is the most devastating pest of the rice crop and severe infestation causes "hopper burn" symptom in rice fields, resulting in complete death of rice plants.

In this paper, we report the first detailed analysis on the potential effects of climate change on the bionomics of H. hampei, the most devastating pest of coffee throughout the world.

We determined the thermal tolerance of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei, the most devastating pest of coffee worldwide, and make inferences on the possible effects of climate change using climatic data from Colombia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia.

The cotton boll weevil is undoubtedly the most devastating pest [ 5, 6].

The olive fly, Bactrocera oleae, is the most devastating pest of cultivated olives.

Aphids are the largest group of phloem-feeding insects and their enormous reproductive potential makes them some of the most devastating pests to crop production (Davis, 2012).

Lepidoptera represents more than 160,000 insect species which include some of the most devastating pests of crops, forests, and stored products.

Lepidoptera, the second most biodiverse group of insect species after Coleoptera, represents more than 160,000 species including many of the most devastating pests of crops, forests and stored products [ 13].

The brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens Stål (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) is a typical phloem sap feeder and is considered to be one of the most devastating pests for rice throughout Asia.

Alfalfa weevil, Hypera postica (Gyllenhall) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), is the most devastating insect pest of alfalfa, and a few closely related legumes which feeding terminals and new crown shoots thereby lowering crop yield and quality (Reddy et al. 2016).