But those pests were, and are, among the least of its problems.

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He struggled to persuade people who lived alongside crocodilians to see them not as pests, but as friends.

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"They don't sting like fire ants do, but aside from that they are much bigger pests, " he said.

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African farmers without adequate road networks are condemned to grow not what they can eat, but what they can carry on their heads and eat quickly before pests destroy it.

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But Irena Hopkins, deputy mayor of Ammanford in Carmarthenshire, argues that pests, particularly rats, are a public health hazard for which councils should take responsibility.

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But one of the issue if you have with that is for disease and pests, if you want to have crop rotation which when you only have one place to grow something it's kind of like, am I going to take three years off growing tomatoes.

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Giuliani has always enjoyed playing the crime-fighting superhero, but he has, famously, been a cold and merciless crusader--a bane to squeegee pests, jaywalkers, homeless people, welfare moms, police-shooting victims and city-council Democrats.

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