08/11/2014
Good morning to all!
Here's something interesting to know on this lovely (stay-home) Saturday morning -
WHAT IS A PEST?
A pest is, "a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns (as agriculture or livestock production)";
alternative meanings include organisms that cause nuisance and epidemic disease associated with high mortality.
In its broadest sense, a pest is a competitor of humanity. It is any living organism which is invasive or prolific, detrimental, troublesome, noxious, destructive, a nuisance to either plants or animals, human or human concerns, livestock, human structures, wild ecosystems etc. It is a loosely defined term, often overlapping with the related terms vermin, w**d, plant and animal parasites and pathogens. It is possible for an organism to be a pest in one setting but beneficial, domesticated or acceptable in another.
So, which is your least favourite Pest?
(Mines mosquitoes) - Nett
Subject extracted from Wikipedia