Sentence examples for public pest from inspiring English sources

In an 1878 essay in The North American Review, the eminent historian Francis Parkman declared universal suffrage a failure: when a man "cares not a farthing for the general good, and will sell his vote for a dollar," Parkman insisted, "his vote becomes a public pest".

What unites these disparate groups under the rubric of the "local" is that they stand apart from the two groups that have traditionally played the main roles in public pest and disease management: (1) large-scale federal or state government agencies and (2) academic scientists housed in institutions with national or statewide reach.

Pyrethroid insecticides have been extensively used in China and worldwide for public health pest control.

However, it has only recently started to receive the scientific attention such an important public health pest deserves.

The mosquito Anopheles funestus is a major vector of malaria throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, but because it is a relatively intractable species to work with, it has only recently started to receive the scientific attention such an important public health pest deserves.

Without the expansion of these different aspects of bedbug management, further escalation of this public health pest is expected, and the demand for information about effective control tactics will rise.

There is an urgent need to explore and utilize naturally occurring products for combating harmful agricultural and public health pests.

The long term use of insecticides for controlling public health pests, beginning with the extensive use of DDT in the 1950's and 1960's, the more recent dramatic expansion in use of pyrethroid impregnated LLINs and extensive agricultural use of the same insecticides in and around mosquito breeding habitats, has led to widespread insecticide resistance in mosquito vector populations [ 20, 21].

Finally, our results, based on calls to public health and pest control operators, reflect self-initiated complaints from affected locations and therefore do not provide population-based data on the prevalence of bed bug infestations.

Genetic insect control, such as self-limiting RIDL2 (Release of Insects Carrying a Dominant Lethal) technology, is a development of the sterile insect technique which is proposed to suppress wild populations of a number of major agricultural and public health insect pests.

Their laboratory was in Detroit, where, as in many other cities, public housing suffered from pest infestation.