One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.
New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.
Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.
I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.
How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.
Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.
The pest of society is egotists.
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.