The pests that the standard seeks to control are typically insect pests and other pests and diseases vectored by insects.

They control pests, and they're food for animals.

You little pests! Stop! I'll wring your necks!!

(n) Prevent the introduction of noxious plants and pests

Some species are minor pests of a few commercial crops.

(d) Efforts to combat pests affecting crops and forest species

Today's best variety is tomorrow's lunch for insects or pests or disease.

Just get in, I'll get rid of these girls. Lousy pests! Out!

Without protection, they became the victims of natural decay, fire, flooding, or pests.

However, new pests have emerged in Bt cotton, leading to higher use of pesticides.

Bt cotton technology has failed to control pests or secure farmers lives and livelihoods.

Do not grieve because your beloved is far away the mosquitoes are reals pests.

it is easy and cheap to cultivate and free from any serious pests and diseases

Plant protection teams carry out surveys and, if necessary, spray areas infested by crop pests.

And even though they're used in labs to promote human lives, they're also considered pests.

It also takes into consideration both direct and indirect damage by pests, so it includes weeds.

Parties also suggested the need for measures to combat mud torrents, forest fires, pests and diseases.

Slow onset natural disasters can include drought and desertification, famine, deforestation, and pests and plant diseases.

At the start, the technology for engineering Bt genes into cotton was aimed primarily at controlling pests.

A large number of thrips species are considered pests, because they feed on plants with commercial value.

(c) Cooperation in the management and control of pests as well as of plant and animal diseases

(c) cooperation in the management and control of pests as well as of plant and animal diseases

(h) Forest fires, pests, diseases and abiotic factors affecting forests, including storm damage and the impact of climate change

We welcome the approval under that initiative of a key project on the eradication of cotton pests in Pakistan.

A pest control technology that fails to control pests might be good for seed corporations that are also agrichemical corporations.

By the 15th century, toxic chemicals such as arsenic, mercury, and lead were being applied to crops to kill pests.

For example, the potential dangers of the spread of tropical diseases and pests could adversely affect the agricultural and pastoral industries.

The African continent has benefited from the Agency's capacity building in applying SIT for the eradication of tsetse flies and other pests.

It has one research network and two technical cooperation projects on plant protection, specifically on the area wide control of insect pests.

(g) Cooperation in the management and control of pests, weeds, vectors of human and animal diseases and diseases affecting animals and plants

Furthermore, FAO and IAEA collaborate on research in tracing pesticide residues and use of the sterile insect technique for controlling some pests.

A pest control technology that fails to control pests might be good for seed corporations that are also agrichemical corporations. For farmers, it translates into suicide.

Instead, these policies have left hundreds of millions of people even more desperately poor and hungry, and even more vulnerable to drought, pests, and soil depletion.

ISPM 15 is an international standard for the treatment of solid wood packaging material to prevent the spread of forest pests, specifically those attacking standing timber.

Where tobacco is cultivated on land with minimal rotation, there is also a tendency for the soil to become exhausted and crop pests to become endemic.

I came into the discipline of biological pest control, which we actually define as the use of living organisms to reduce populations of noxious plant pests.

So biodiversity can act as a natural insurance policy against sudden environmental changes and a buffer against losses caused by them (as well as by pests and diseases).

Specifically, the Panel notes that Iran's approach does not take due account of changes in crop yields that may be due to the impacts of pests and diseases.

With regard to the emergency prevention system (EMPRES) for transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases, a meeting of donors would be held in Rome in December 1994.

We call for the intensification of international efforts to eradicate agricultural pests, introduce low cost water desalination plants, combat desertification, and reclaim lands and render them suitable for agriculture.

Storage in grain sacks is ineffective mold and pests destroy a 25 kg cloth sack of grain in a year, even if stored off the ground in a dry area.

And then within plant protection, I came into the discipline of biological pest control which we actually define as the use of living organisms to reduce populations of noxious plant pests.

Under the banner of integrated pest management, hundreds of invasive species are now successfully controlled by strategies that restrict the population growth of pests but do not attempt to eradicate them

I had never seen a cockroach before coming to Japan in my early 20s. In the cool, dry corner of Canada where I grew up, there are very few insect pests.

MBTOC analysed the results and found that for all situations and all crops tested, one or more of the alternatives proved comparable to MB for the control of target pests diseases.