Look up pest or Pest in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pest or The Pest may refer to: Pest (organism), an animal or plant deemed to be detrimental to...
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PEST may refer to: PEST analysis, framework used in strategic management PEST sequence, is a peptide sequence in proteins Specialized Unit for Special...
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Pest control is the regulation or management of a species defined as a pest; such as any animal, plant or fungus that impacts adversely on human activities...
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A pest is any organism harmful to humans or human concerns. The term is particularly used for creatures that damage crops, livestock, and forestry or cause...
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Pest (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈpɛʃt]) is the eastern, mostly flat part of Budapest, Hungary, comprising about two-thirds of the city's territory. It...
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Tin pest is an autocatalytic, allotropic transformation of the element tin, which causes deterioration of tin objects at low temperatures. Tin pest has...
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In business analysis, PEST analysis ("political, economic, socio-cultural and technological") describes a framework of macro-environmental factors used...
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Integrated pest management (IPM), also known as integrated pest control (IPC) is a broad-based approach that integrates both chemical and non-chemical...
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In ice hockey, a pest is a player who attempts to antagonize opponents either by physical play or verbal incitement. Pests employ legal, illegal, or borderline...
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Rodent (redirect from Pest rodent)
particular, the brown rat, the black rat, and the house mouse, are serious pests, eating and spoiling food stored by humans and spreading diseases. Accidentally...
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Thomas Kronenes (born 16 September 1975), best known by the stage name Pest (Norwegian for "pestilence" or "plague"), is a Norwegian black metal musician...
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Pest (Hungarian: Pest vármegye, pronounced [ˈpɛʃt]; German: Komitat Pest) is a county (vármegye) in central Hungary. It covers an area of 6,393.14 square...
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Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals...
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A PEST sequence is a peptide sequence that is rich in proline (P), glutamic acid (E), serine (S) and threonine (T). It is associated with proteins that...
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Zinc pest (from German Zinkpest "zinc plague"), also known as zinc rot, mazak rot and zamak rot, is a destructive, intercrystalline corrosion process of...
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The Pest is a 1997 American black comedy film inspired by the classic 1924 Richard Connell short story "The Most Dangerous Game". Comedian John Leguizamo...
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Mechanical pest control is the management and control of pests using physical means such as fences, barriers or electronic wires. It includes also weeding...
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A pest house, plague house, pesthouse or fever shed was a type of building used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis,...
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A pest house was a type of building in which to quarantine those afflicted with communicable diseases. Pest House is the name of the following historic...
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Great Leap Forward in China from 1958 to 1962. Authorities targeted four "pests" for elimination: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. The extermination...
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Ramona the Pest, by Beverly Cleary, is the second book of the Ramona series and the first to focus on Ramona Quimby as the protagonist. This children's...
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Rice (redirect from Rice pests)
such as rice-duck farming, and modern integrated pest management seek to control damage from pests in a sustainable way. Many varieties of rice have...
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Common sunn pests Sunn pests are grain insect pests belonging to several genera of the 'shield bug' family Scutelleridae, with the species Eurygaster...
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The siege of Pest (modern city of Budapest, Hungary) occurred in 1542, when Ferdinand I attempted to recover the cities of Buda and Pest in 1542 from...
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Pesticide (section By pest type)
Pesticides are substances that are used to control pests. They include herbicides, insecticides, nematicides, fungicides, and many others (see table)...
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Gardening (redirect from Garden pest)
are considered pests. There are many ways by which unwanted pests are removed from a garden. The techniques vary depending on the pest, the gardener's...
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This is a list of common household pests – undesired animals that have a history of living, invading, causing damage, eating human foods, acting as disease...
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Rabbit (redirect from Rabbit pest)
survival. Rabbits in Australia and New Zealand are considered to be such a pest that landowners are legally obliged to control them. Rabbits are known to...
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Coconut (redirect from Coconut pests)
to cold and prefer copious precipitation and full sunlight. Many insect pests and diseases affect the species and are a nuisance for commercial production...
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