Sentence examples for pest by from inspiring English sources

The area also suffers from an infestation of wild boar, who sound quaint but are regarded as a pest by homeowners whose fences, dustbins and gardens are attacked.

Local authorities have all but eliminated the pest by releasing an enormous amount of dragonflies, which devour the pests at an alarming rate.

The invasive species has the potential to be a serious agricultural pest by stripping fruit crops – if it can successfully expand into rural areas from the urban strongholds it has colonised.

For Wevill (who cannot have been given the name of a ravenous pest by accident), the attempt to seduce the daughter of his Hawaiian housekeeper will grant him a measure of satisfaction -- before it exacts the same price that sexual "knowing" did in the Bible: eviction from paradise.

The story is mysterious and paradoxical, encapsulating some of the most arresting current phenomena: the person who sits alone talking to unseen hordes; the brilliant student regarded as a pest by his teacher; the way in which the 21st century despises privacy but advocates anonymity.

The aim is to combat this olive crop pest by releasing male flies that have a "female-killing gene".

Plants turn into pests by several methods.

They are vegetarian and in cultivated areas sometimes become pests by eating melons, grain, and squash.

The check exerted upon insect pests by other insects is an important mechanism of natural control of populations.

Many, like the seven-spot and two-spot ladybirds, primarily feed on aphids (the greenfly and blackfly that are seen as pests by farmers and gardeners).

Despite the pet show judges mocking Buzz's tiny pet and being up against a giraffe and an octopus, Fly Guy proves that flies should be appreciated as pets and not pests by so brilliantly demonstrating his incredible dive-bombing aerobatics.