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Climate change itself will undermine the ability of forests to suck up and store carbon dioxide, as the risks of droughts, wildfires, and insect infestations grow with rising temperatures.

Fires, droughts, insect infestations, and shifting climate conditions will convert major parts of California’s forests into shrublands, according to a modeling study published in AGU Advances last week.

In 1953, a major California effort started to stamp out infestations of Khapra beetles and eventually preserved crop marketability.

So for these microbe infestations, Nicastro says, “Now we have to consider the balance between positive and negative effects.”

Another option for controlling roaches is sticky traps, which will probably put only a small dent in a moderate or large infestation.

Sure, water filter makers put a bit of bactericide in their products to tamp down the infestation.

In addition to this mess, there was also an infestation of maggots.

While covering a bird infestation, a reporter gets pooped on.

Some American evangelicals export teen exorcists to the UK to fight the Harry Potter induced demonic infestation there.

The apartment she was assigned to there had an infestation of cockroaches.

On the Klamath National Forest some years ago about 900 acres were treated for insect infestation.

There are many administrative measures which are practiced on the National Forests, which aim to prevent insect infestation.

Only a few weeks ago we found a rather bad infestation in the vicinity of Tivoli.

No infestation had been noted in previous years, although in 1945 the crop was not harvested at all.

Superparasitism, sū-pėr-par′a-sīt-izm, n. the infestation of parasites by other parasites.