In my novel White Heat, the protagonist, Edie Kiglatuk, tiring of a persistent sex pest, turns around and punches him in the face.
However, most mortality results from human activities, in the form of road kills, drownings in fishnets, destruction as pests around fishing areas, or trapping for their fur.
An accelerating global trade in crops is transporting pests around the world in ever larger numbers while climate change is allowing them to prosper in previously inhospitable locations.
Having originated in Latin America and co-evolved with its host plant potato (Solanum sp ., the potato tuber moth (PTM), Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller), has become one of the most serious insect pests around the world, including in Korea.
Pyrethroid insecticides, commonly used in California to kill ants and other insect pests around the home, have been found in street runoff and in the outflow from sewage treatment plants in the Sacramento area.
Inspectors reportedly found hordes of the pest scurrying around the stadium's kitchens.
Spiders and house centipedes like the abundant supply of tasty insects to feed on, and excess moisture can also encourage pest development around the building's exterior.
We conducted a range-wide study of mitochondrial genetic diversity in the pine processionary moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa/ T. wilkinsoni complex, Notodontidae), a forest pest occurring around the Mediterranean Basin and in southern Europe.
Buckley et al. (2000) reported ORs consistently greater than unity and a nearly significant (p = 0.05) trend for maternal exposure to insecticides during pregnancy, and significant ORs for childhood exposure to pesticides (OR = 2.4; 95% CI, 1.4 4.0) and professional pest extermination around the home during pregnancy (OR = 3.0; 95% CI, 1.4 6.2).
