Though pest damage can result in little or no edible fruit, actually only a few pests cause most of the damage.

Farm consultants can look at aerial images and see signs of pest damage, then apply pesticides where they are needed.

Weather varies, price fluctuates, soil degrades, pest damages, and, even climate changes.

Among rice cultivars, there are differences in the responses to, and recovery from, pest damage.

Widespread usage of pesticides garnered much public and political support due to the resulting post war food surplus made possible by higher crop yield from significantly lower pest damage.

Augmentative control includes the periodic introduction of naturally occurring predators in sufficient numbers to keep pest damage below economoic damaging levels.

In Berlin, J. L. Frisch started using tightly enclosed glass jars for every mount to prevent pest damage.

These are used to test the beneficial insect's ability to reduce pest damage.

The standard requires produce to be intact, clean, sufficiently mature, free from rot and free from pests and pest damage.

In the valley, a swarm of people moved among the rows of plants, bent over, searching for weeds and pest damage.