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Most studies of the impact of bird predation on arthropods in agroecosystems have focused on particular pest species.
The study found detectable levels of 89 chemicals, including pesticides, phthalates, herbicides, pest repellents, and disinfectants.
Keep manure dry, since wet manure promotes fly pest breeding and inhibits beneficial insect breeding.
To combat another common pest, tent caterpillars, use a forked branch to wind up the webs and expose the caterpillars to predators.
The fruits make good outdoor Christmas ornaments or could be used as insect pest repellents in the winter.
The Australian brush-tailed possum, put simply, is a pest of epidemic proportions.
Some pesticides are sold in formulations specifically for licensed pest control operators.
Without a doubt, spider mites are the leading garden pest for causing yellowed leaves during cool wet springs and temperate falls.
Because of their voracious appetites, bats function as extremely effective and pesticide-free pest control.
This issue and the April 11 issue of CropWatch will spotlight corn production and pest management.
The shift toward more ecological means of pest control is a driving force in research and in growers' fields.
Vegetables are judged on how quick they are to produce as well as on yield, taste, quality, plant habit and pest and disease resistance.
Many calatheas have a red or purple underside to their leaves, which adds subterfuge to their pest resistance.
As a result, ministers are going to great lengths to point out that the deer is a fine animal, and must not be viewed as a pest or a nuisance.
Like we've got to get rid of our feral animals, we've got to get rid of our pest plants, and then let the land rehabilitate itself.
Use application techniques that permit direct contact with the pest weed, such as wands or paint brushes.
The peach twig borer, Anarsia lineatella, is another key pest damaging shoots and fruits of almonds and stone fruits.
This common, damaging pest likes to feed on the roots of Hawaii's colorful and exotic tropical orchids.
In the past few years, litter beetles, have become the most serious pest affecting several types of poultry production systems.
Because of its invasive nature, it often becomes a pest within an ornamental garden and readily escapes.
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He passed on unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in the street full of men.
They also saw strange birds, as well as the wild or native cat, which has been such a pest ever since in most parts of Australia.
The pertinacity of the culicid frequently renders them a most formidable pest.
The anopheles is more common in the country, while the Culex is a city pest.
It is not known when or from whence the pest was first introduced into Yunnan.
The gossip, the busybody, the scandalmonger is the worst pest that infests the average town and village.
The pest is easily discovered through the exudation from the infested part of gum mixed with borings and excreta.
There is another pest of the North Woods which the guides call the no-see-um.
This cacoethes scribendi is the pest of every local curiosity or public watering-place.
In hot countries the chigoe is a serious and troublesome pest, particularly to bare-footed people.
A ladybird beetle, which has also been imported, is the most effective agent in keeping this pest in check.
On the plus side, there is evidence the eagles have helped to thin out the population of Hooded Crows which are a pest in certain areas.
The black fly is even a more formidable pest than the mosquito.
Of late years the greatest pest has been the Mexican boll weevil.
This type of socialism is a scourge, a pest, a bubonic plague.
The jackrabbit was a pest, but the cottontail was worth getting.
What will be a wholesome remedy to extirpate the pest of these witches.
There are more skunks here than out in the country,'' said Bob Brooks of the Worcester-based pest removal company Ford's Hometown Services.
Plum curculio, Conotrachelus nenuphar, is a tiny, snout-nosed beetle and major pest of stone fruits, including peaches.
This pest is of the animal kingdom and not of the plant kingdom.
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