Over time, repeated application increases pest resistance, while its effects on other species can facilitate the pest's resurgence.

That epidemic was the result of a similar overuse of elms in urban environments, leading to a monoculture that lacked any disease or pest resistance.

Hardness, as well as its moisture, weathering and pest resistance makes it useful for construction and carpentry.

Certain varieties contain more than others, and some selective breeding and genetic modification studies have focused on using this trait to identify and produce commercial varieties with increased pest resistance.

New biotechnology tools will be used to transfer the perennial characters into cultivated rice, and new knowledge of genetic diversity will be applied to develop pest resistance.

I removed those malicious pest species that every farmer despises.

Urban areas are becoming vast reservoirs of predators and pest species.

Historically, the wolf has officially been considered a pest species and so it was hunted throughout the year without any limits.

The category of synanthrope includes a large number of what humans regard as pest species.

Several cyprinids have been introduced to waters outside their natural ranges to provide food, sport, or biological control for some pest species.