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unusual facts about The Pest



Brazil nut

They can be seen being sold in a market under this name in a scene from the 1922 Stan Laurel film The Pest.


see also

Encarsia perplexa

Amitus hesperidum is another citrus blackfly parasitoid that has been used alongside E. perplexa to control the pest.

Hemlock woolly adelgid

According to Science Daily, the pest could kill most of the region's hemlock trees within the next decade.

József Kármán

He was generally known as the Pest Alcibiades, and was especially at home in the salons of the Protestant magnates.

Platanus occidentalis

The American sycamore is a favored food plant of the pest sycamore leaf beetle.