Pest (organism)
The term " pest " is a collective term for organisms that reduce the economic success of people, whether as a destroyer of crops, as a competitor for food or by destruction of structures.
The term " pest " was used in the German language for the first time about the year 1880 for the phylloxera. In general, it refers to animals, especially insects as pests. Fungi, viruses and bacteria are, however, binned by the terms pathogen or pathogens.
A figurative meaning has experienced in the past with the term " public enemy " by the Nazi propaganda of the term, which people have been devalued to the level of harmful animals.
Recently, malicious programs are called computer computer malware.
Examples
The pests are counted among other things:
Agricultural pests
- Animals codling moth
- Aphids
- Thrips ( Thrips )
- Codling
- Rabbit ( mammal, Australia)
- Potato beetle
- Cherry fruit fly
- Cockchafer
- European corn borer
- Plum fruit
- Rhododendron cicada
- Saateule
- Scale insects
- Gypsy moth
- Spider mite
- Grape
- Walnut fruit
- Whitefly
- Fungi and protists Rotpustelpilz ( Nectria )
- Phytophthora (downy mildew)
Forest pests
- Animals certain aphids
- Blue pine jewel beetle
- Bark beetle
- Oak borer
- Oak processionary moth
- Green oak
- Spruce sawfly cocoon
- , Often referred Common woodworm only as furniture beetles
- Pine sawfly
- Kieferneule
- Pine moth
- Small spruce sawfly
- Nun
- Horse chestnut leaf miner
- Gypsy moth
- Splintholzkäfer
- Fungi and protists Scorching fungal
- Armillaria
- Certain Phytophthora species
- Root sponge
- Tinder
Storage pests
- Animals German cockroach
- Grain beetle
- House mouse ( mammal)
- Clothes moth
- Grain beetle
- Flour moth
- Rats ( mammal)
Wood pests
- Animals, Often referred Common woodworm only as furniture beetles
- Longhorn, often confused with the falsely Commons Holzbock
- Splintholzkäfer
- Termites
- Mushrooms Brown cellar sponge
- True dry rot
- Zaunblättling
Further material pests
- Insects, wool, skins Larvae of the beetle Bacon