pest

These pests could extract half a liter of horse blood daily while transmitting fatal diseases that devastated domestic horses, leaving colonial powers reliant on thousands of humans to transport goods.

And that can lead to a whole lot of food being lost to pests that farmers thought couldn’t harm their crops.

Those are fish that are particularly good at consuming algae blooms and other pests.

There are several species of clothes moths that can become household pests, but all species are super into the protein-maxxing trend, and their protein of choice is fibrous keratin.

So on top of being a major disruption for the ecosystems they invade they are also a huge pest for agriculture.