Synonym: blighter, cuss, gadfly, pesterer, pestilence, pestis, plague. Similar words: pesto, pester, pestle, tempest, tapestry, pestering, pestilent, pesticide. Meaning: [pest] n. 1. a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal 2. any epidemic disease with a high death rate 3. a persistently annoying person 4. any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc..
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31. Entomology was also taking on an economic role as its application to pest control became evident.
32. It is these concerns which have encouraged a move back towards biological or organic methods of pest control.
33. The pest controllers however, were confronted with an even bigger menace, in the form of a sealy dinosaur.
34. Synthetic fertilisers and pesticides are banned and soil fertility and pest control is achieved through crop rotation and mixed farming systems.
35. Rather than running the risks of using harmful pesticides in your garden, try using natural or organic methods of pest control.
36. Most viruses used in pest control programmes have been sprayed directly on to crops.
37. Payne, 30, began the hate campaign after receiving pest calls herself, and wrongly blaming the Todds.
38. However when he's not sorting out pest problems in Leeds he is treading the floorboards in many amateur theatrical productions.
39. The rational application of pesticides is stymied by ignorance of how pest attack at different stages of crop development affects yield.
40. The poor world has great potential in this respect, including some 2,000 divisions of poisonous plants which might become pest killers.
41. Two centuries later, the mongrels have found an identity of their own and have become a pest.
42. Vineyards like Napa Ridge like the idea of using low impact, natural pest control and are pleased with the preliminary results.
43. The riverside section of Pest opposite Castle Hill is the city's main shopping district.
44. This year Pest Control has prospered once again and moved forward on all fronts.
45. The mouse has always been in the public eye, although its image has changed from pest to scientific specimen.
46. This, and a closely related isolate, are now in commercial production for control of this pest.
47. And resistance to one pest can often increase susceptibility to another.
48. The first priority is to consult a good reference book to identify the pest and choose the most effective control.
49. Pest problems Greenhouse crops are susceptible to greenfly, whitefly and red spider mite which all feed on the leaves.
50. A different type of biologically engineered pest control is claimed to have been effected through a free-living soil bacteria.
51. The revival pest, he said, filled the church with confusion and the state with disorder.
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52. In classical biological control, a natural enemy is introduced to control an organism that has become a pest in its absence.
53. It houses an elegant restaurant from which the views across the Danube to the parliament building and much of Pest are magnificent.
54. Decide whether the pest is a serious threat or merely a nuisance.
55. Gardening in tomorrow's world Future pest control at a stroke?
56. The leaves go limp after this subterranean pest has nibbled at the roots.
57. A common household pest is the bed bug.
58. I was a nuisance, an incumbrance, and a pest.
59. That guy is a regular pest.
60. Pests are controlled through IPM - Integrated Pest Management.
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