No, they are not. Parasitic animals are the ones such as tapeworms, ringworms, fleas, ticks, etc. etc. that feed and reproduce in or on another living organism. An internal parasite will generally stay with the same host until either the parasite is erradicated or the host itself dies.
Historically locusts have swarmed and devoured countless acres of crops, causing famine.
Some common examples of pests are rodents, snails, slugs, locusts, cabbage butterfly and many more.
The idea is that they kill pests, usually farm pests such as locusts, weevils, wasps, flies, aphids and so on. The problem is that they also injure or kill wild animals, farm animals, farmers and other people. Check out herbicide, insecticide, biocide, and vermicide.
bollworm, pink bollworm, lygus bug
In the early days of farming in America, crops were not sprayed with chemicals to kill pests. That is what made them so susceptible to insect pests. Locusts and corn borers are the most destructive of plant pests for corn and wheat.
A parasite. These could include insects and pests like fleas and ticks, or things like tapeworms. I also believe that certain types of ivy and mistletoe are parasitic as well.
Scavengers such as catfish, eat pests.
The classifications of animal and pest are not mutually exclusive. Many animals are pests. Snakes are animals, but are not usually counted as pests.
yes they are!Answer:Plants, insects and animals are only "pests" when they are where people find them inconvenient. Ants at picnic or in your larder are pests. Ants removing dead animals in the forest are parts of an active and healthy ecosystem.
Pests like caterpillars increase in number quickly when conditions are right. Large numbers of pests indicate that there is a lack of beneficial insects like parasitic wasps or other predators in the area.
Insect pests are insects that cause diseases like mosquitoes or tsetse flies, famines like swarms of crop-eating locusts and nuisances like wasps at picnics.
they kill pests