These tiny insect pests seem to appear out of nowhere, and almost every kind of soft succulent leaf is to their liking.

No one had heard of tracheal mites or varroa mites - two tiny pests that have decimated hives in the past 15 years and made beekeeping much more complicated than it used to be.

To a pest-control expert, however, some of those tiny brown pests crawling around yards and kitchens are not pavement ants but pharaoh ants, which react differently than do most ant species.

Japanese ladybugs have been called in to fight off a tiny pest that threatens to kill about 10 percent of Connecticut's trees.

Thanks to these tiny pests, New Jersey was forced to invent mosquito control early this century, as development pushed out from the river cities toward the seacoast and ran smack into walls of disease-carrying, blood-sucking mosquitoes.

Slater flopped back in his chair, his hand over his mouth, his eyes scanning the desktop as if it were covered with tiny pests he wanted to squash.

A shield would easily ward off such tiny pests.

The researchers found that tiny insect pests of ponderosa pine, known as black pineleaf scale, seemed to thrive only on the tree from which they originated.

Sweat seeped into Hathcock's eyes and dripped from the tip of his nose, while an army of tiny pests crawled around his neck, inside his ears, and on his eyelids and nostrils.

But who knew a tiny pest like you could topple the whole balance?