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The pest is an creature which has characteristics which humans look on injurious or even unwanted. These are imaginable for even an animate being to become the pest within of these setting however beneficial or domestic in another (for instance, European rabbits introduced to Australia caused ecological damage beyond the shell it inflicted in their natural home ground). An case of good parasites come victims parasites which vector human disease, such as rats and fleas which carry the plague disease, or mosquitoes which vector malaria. More parasites compete for even the person food supply or agricultural crops, such as coddling moth on apples, or boll weevil on cotton. Look at besides a entries for biological pest control and pesticide.
Related is pestilence, which is a microorganism which causes far flung (epidemic) disease.
Watch likewise:
List of common household pests
Rabbits as an invasive species
Invasive species
Vermin
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