A pest is any organism harmful to humans or human concerns. The term is particularly used for creatures that damage crops, livestock, and forestry or cause...

Look up pest or Pest in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pest or The Pest may refer to: Pest (organism), an animal or plant deemed to be detrimental to...

Home-stored product entomology List of notifiable diseases Noxious weed Pest (organism) Hewitt, C. Gordon (1914), The House-fly, Cambridge University Press...

parasites. In homes and urban environments, the pests are the rodents, birds, insects and other organisms that share the habitat with humans, and that feed...

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invasiveness). Some species have been introduced intentionally to combat pests. They are called biocontrols and may be regarded as beneficial as an alternative...

naturally relatively unmolested by arthropod pests. Nonetheless, there are 24 insect taxa known to be pest (organism)s in North America, the worst in New Jersey...

controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals or plants by using other organisms. It relies...

Vermin (colloquially varmint(s) or varmit(s)) are pests or nuisance animals that spread diseases and destroy crops, livestock, and property. Since the...

is the state of being invaded or overrun by pests or parasites. It can also refer to the actual organisms living on or within a host. In general, the...

decreased susceptibility of a pest population to a pesticide that was previously effective at controlling the pest. Pest species evolve pesticide resistance...

nematode control agents) are delivered to their biological targets (e.g. pest organism, crop or other plant). Public concern about the use of pesticides has...

Benefits include pest control, pollination, and maintenance of soil health. The opposite of beneficial organisms are pests, which are organisms deemed detrimental...

or other scientific and economic evidence to determine whether an organism is a pest, whether it should be regulated, and the strength of any phytosanitary...

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. The exact definition...

biological pest control. This uses one organism to reduce the population density of a pest organism; it is a key element of integrated pest management...

the barriers against biological dispersal of pest organisms through the crop. There are several ways pests, typically herbivorous insects, can be controlled...

experiments. Release of other organisms that fight the pest is another example of an alternative to pesticide use. These organisms can include natural predators...

biopesticide is a biological substance or organism that damages, kills, or repels organisms seen as pests. Biological pest management intervention involves predatory...

reform of the laws relating to pests and other unwanted organisms. It was a world first. In the Act an "unwanted organism" is defined as one that "is capable...

English Dictionary's earliest citation of this usage is from 1611. Pest (organism) Use of DNA in forensic entomology de Moya, Robert S; Yoshizawa, Kazunori;...

magpies are not classified as a pest organism at a national level (NZ Biosecurity – direct communication via email). Any pest classification and subsequent...

was repealed by the Biosecurity Act 1993, which used words such as "pest", "organism" and "species", rather than "noxious". Consequently, the term "noxious...

threat to the continued usefulness of pyrethroids in the control of many pest species. Research since 1990 has provided a wealth of new information on...

reduced inexpensively by placing bird netting over the plants to keep the pests away. On the other hand, fencing out deer from a lawn or garden can be more...

Lepidiota stigma, also known as sugarcane white grub, is a species of insect native to Southeast Asia. The species is known to attack sugarcane fields...

such as rice-duck farming, and modern integrated pest management seek to control damage from pests in a sustainable way. Many varieties of rice have...

Organization (EPPO), in a system designed to uniquely identify organisms – namely plants, pests and pathogens – that are important to agriculture and crop...

They have a relatively large geographical distribution and are a known pest of many agricultural “cash” crops such as cocoa, cashew, and tea. Subsequently...

distribution and abundance of species by studying interactions of individual organisms with their environments. An autecological approach differs from ecosystem...