pestiferous

Some experts believe other bugs and animals — including those considered pestiferous, like rats — are thriving from secondary impacts of all that H20, like increased vegetation.

William of Newburgh, a medieval English historian, recorded one account of a town devastated by such a monster, who was accused of filling “every house with disease and death by its pestiferous breath.”

When seedlings popped, I put collars around them to protect against pestiferous birds.

The program currently envisions three types of pestiferous insects as allies: aphids, leafhoppers and whiteflies.

The program envisions three types of pestiferous insects as allies: aphids, leafhoppers and whiteflies.