While the use of pesticides has resulted in a wide range of benefits to control weeds, insects and other pests, including increased food production and reduction of insect-borne disease, their use also raises questions about possible effects on the environment, including water quality.
Quotes about pests (8 Quotes)
What if we do go to some other planet, discover it has life, and then not be able to get the baby snakes, or whatever they are, deathworms probably, out of the capsule, and then rather than sacrificing themselves and not coming back, the astronauts bring back the ultimate in irritating apartment pests. In 2106, people will be complaining about having deathworms in their bread.
How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.
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.
It is very different from anything we have seen before. For the first time, we have a computing monoculture. Monocultures in the natural world are extremely vulnerable to pests such as viruses.
Often, we don't realize we miss infectious diseases until we have invasive species that become pests without their natural enemies. Parasites act like thermostats - when a species becomes abundant it is more susceptible to infectious diseases. The disease
A piece of fruit, something as simple as an orange may have all kinds of potential pests, ... Medfly, for example, is one that has been a major problem for us here in the United States in both California and Florida. In 1979 we had an outbreak of medfly in California -- in 1997 we had one in Florida. This was brought in by someone inadvertently on a piece of fruit and cost literally hundreds of millions of dollars for us to eradicate.
Pests destroy our food supply and threaten public health by spreading deadly diseases. We must use pesticides to control these pests and our industry has a moral and ethical obligation, as well as a government mandate, to know how these products impact humans.