Insects and animals that spread diseases or destroy crops or livestock.
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Examples for "vermin "
Examples for "vermin "
1 Hal took down the shirt from the wall; vermin crawled in it.
2 The animal was reviled as dangerous vermin and a threat to cattle.
3 Ye know the saying: 'North are the vermin ; south are the lice.
4 Then commenced a general hunt, to clear the house of the vermin .
5 The mole was draining the soil and purging it of its vermin .
1 The following list identifies animal pests that are common to vegetable gardens.
2 There is plenty of opportunity for biological control of pests and diseases.
3 The camping in the Sierras is ideal for lack of these pests .
4 Mere distance from the mainland would hardly account for the pests ' absence.
5 So they've decided to try and eradicate pests from the entire region.
1 The following list identifies animal pests that are common to vegetable gardens.
2 Next Friday our talk is on animal pests , and how to destroy them.
3 Credit: Steve Hunt Rural landowners learning about how to control animal pests at a Forest Bridge Trust workshop.
4 You don't eat animals , but how do you control animal pests like rabbits from destroying vegetables and other crops?
5 New research has found that animal pests such as possums and deer may be helping to spread wilding pines through the country.
1 Under the Environment Southland Pest Strategy, the council are obligated to actively manage pest animals .
2 One of the team at Goodnature, a company that designs and manufactures automatic traps that humanely kill pest animals .
3 Researchers made the discovery at the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for the Biological Control of Pest Animals Canberra.
1 In spots, a small ledge offered protection for varmits .
2 Too fine a man to get along with varmits !
3 "Them varmits are sure to finish him at last."
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