pest

This article is the target link of the Pest lemma . For the short film of the same name, see pests (film) .

The term “ pest ” is a collective name for organisms that diminish the economic success of humans, be it as destroyers of cultivated plants , as food competitors or through the destruction of buildings .

The term "pest" was first used in the German-speaking area around 1880 for phylloxera . Animals, especially insects, are generally referred to as pests. Fungi, viruses and bacteria, on the other hand, are grouped together under the terms pathogens or pathogens .

In the past, the term acquired a transposed meaning with the expression “ pest of the people ” through Nazi propaganda , with which people were devalued to the level of harmful animals.

Malware programs for computers are also called computer malware .

Examples

The pests include:

Agricultural pests

Fruits of a plum tree with plum moth infestation (one week after flowering)

• Animals
  • Bean beetle
  • Codling moth
  • Aphids
  • Scarab beetle
  • Fringed winged thrips
  • Fruit peel curlers
  • Rabbit (mammal, australia)
  • Colorado potato beetle
  • Cherry fruit fly
  • Cockchafer
  • European corn borer
  • Plum moth
  • Rhododendron - cicada
  • Seed owl
  • Scale insects
  • Gypsy moth
  • Spider mite
  • Grape moth
  • Walnut fruit fly
  • Whitefly
  • Western corn rootworm

• Mushrooms and protists
  • Red pustel mushroom ( Nectria )
  • Phytophthora (downy mildew)

Forest pests

→ Main article : Forest pest

• Animals
  • certain aphids
  • Blue pine jewel beetle
  • Bark beetle
  • Oak splendor beetle
  • Oak processionary moth
  • Oak curlers
  • Spruce sawfly
  • Common woodworm , often only as furniture beetles referred
  • Large brown bark eater
  • Pine bushhorn sawfly
  • Pine owl
  • Jaw tensioner
  • Small spruce sawfly
  • nun
  • Horse chestnut leaf miner
  • Gypsy moth
  • Sapwood beetle

• Mushrooms and protists
  • Burn crust fungus
  • Hallimasch
  • certain Phytophthora species
  • Root sponge
  • Tinder sponge

Storage pests

Eating damage by mice

Rat as a pest

→ Main article : Storage pest

• Animals
  • German cockroach
  • Grain beetle
  • House mouse (mammal)
  • Clothes moth
  • Grain beetle
  • Flour moth
  • Rats (mammal)

Wood pests

→ Main article : Wood pest

• Animals
  • Common rodent beetle , colloquially often referred to as "wood worm"
  • Longhorn , often mistaken with the commons Holzbock confused
  • Sapwood beetle
  • Termites

• Mushrooms
  • Brown cellar sponge
  • Real dry rot
  • Fence leaf

See also : Wood-destroying marine animals

Further material pests

• Insects, wool, furs
  • Larvae of the bacon beetle
• Insects, plasterboard , polystyrene ,
  • Brown garden ant

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lukas Straumann: Useful pests . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0695-0 , p. 326.
2. ↑ Wolfram Scheiding, Peter Grabes, Tilo Haustein, Vera Haustein, Norbert Nieke, Harald Urban, Björn Weiß Wood preservation: wood science - fungi and insects - constructive and chemical measures - technical rules - practical knowledge, Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH Co KG 2016 - 296 pages, ISBN 978-3-446-44844-5 , p. 160
3. ↑ Paths and nests created by ants in wood and insulation boards

literature

• Sarah Jansen: "Pest": History of a Scientific and Political Construct, 1840–1920 . Frankfurt / Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-36307-0 .

See also

• calamity
• weed

• Annoyance

• Beneficial organism
• vermin
• Pest Control
• Biological pest control
• Biological plant protection
• Quarantine pathogens

Web links

Wiktionary: Pest  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wikiquote: Pest  Quotes