Their studies helped determine that while compounds like borax, hydrated sodium borate, are effective at cleaning, adding minerals to the soil, repealing pests and manufacturing glass and porcelain, they`re less savory as a food preservative.

他们的研究结果显示，尽管硼砂和水合硼酸钠这样的复合物在，清洁，给土壤增肥，驱除害虫，制作玻璃和陶瓷方面有很好的效果，但是作为食品添是不妥的。

If disease or pests killed one type, there were others to fall back on.

如果疾病或害虫杀死了一种类型，有其他类型可以依靠。

It's like a gated community for vermin of every sort.

就像是个繁衍各种害虫的封闭空间。

Desert locusts are the world's oldest and most destructive migratory pest.

沙漠蝗虫是世界上最古老和最具破坏性的迁徙害虫。

Next, the researchers will see if the sweetener kills other bugs, like cockroaches or ants.

研究员们接下来将继续研究这种甜味是否可以杀死像蟑螂，蚂蚁类的其他害虫。

The project has been organised by the Forest Health Initiative (FHI), a quango set up to look into the idea of using genetic engineering to rescue species of tree whose populations have been devastated by fungal diseases or insect pests.

该项目由一个半官方机构—森林健康组织（FHI）发起，该机构的创立是为了观察用基因工程来拯救被真菌病或害虫摧毁的树木种群的可行性。

There is a class of people who are the pest of every community, workmen who do not know their trade, men of business ignorant of the first principles of business.

有一种是所有群里的害虫，工不懂业，不了解业第一法则。

Plants create special chemicals to protect themselves from pests and diseases and many of these same chemicals can help us too.

植物会产生特殊的化学物质来保护自己免受害虫和疾病的侵害，而这些同样的化学物质也可以帮助我们治疗疾病。

With the bare change in labels from pet to pest, the kitchen mice obtained a totally different moral status.

标签从宠物到害虫，厨房里的老鼠得到的是完全不同的道德地位。

Well, obviously they want to protect Australia from diseases that might come in with imported goods, but they also want to prevent insect pests from being introduced into the country, and that's where I have a part to play.

显然，他们要保护澳洲不受进口食物所带来的疾病侵扰，但是他们也要防止害虫被引入国内，而这就是我的工作。

So that explains why the pesky pests always come back in the summer and when they do, why do they always seem to bite some people more often than others?

所以，这就是为什么这些讨厌的害虫总是在夏天卷土重来。而当它们回来后，为什么它们好像更喜欢叮咬某一部分？

And non-native insects have been used to control pathogens and invasive pests.

外来昆虫已被用于控制病原体和入侵性害虫。

Most people think of them as pests and they don't really like them.

大多数认为它们是害虫，大家并不喜欢它们。

We have to get rid of pests in the garden.

我们必须除去花园里的害虫。

They use other chemicals to kill the insect pests that attack the plants.

他们会用其他化学物质杀死攻击作物的害虫。

So while neonicotinoids could help keep pests off the crops people grow, the study suggests they could have negative side effects on bees and pollination.

因此，尽管新烟碱可以帮助们种植的作物远离害虫，但研究表明，它们可能会对蜜蜂和授粉产生负面影响。

Yeah, we keep them with us to hunt, you know, pests like mice.

对，我们让猫跟我们一起捕措，比如老鼠等害虫。

Again, not such a great idea, sorry! That's because bug zappers aren't really that amazing at killing mosquitoes, but they do end up killing a bunch of beneficial insects and that aren't seen as pests.

这个点子也不好，抱歉，这是因为灭虫器的杀蚊效果并不是很好，但是它们会杀死很多并不被视为害虫的有益昆虫。

The seeds are more resistant to insects and other pests.

该种子对昆虫和其它害虫有更强的抵抗力。

In the world of pests, bedbugs may be the greatest invaders in all of history.

在世界范围内的害虫里，床虱或许是史上最强的侵略者。