Crop pests also tend to thrive in simplified environments that have been stripped of their predators — another legacy of monocultural farming practices.
农作物害虫也倾向于在没有捕食者的简化环境中繁衍生息——这是单一文化耕作方式的另一个遗产。
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Pest (organism)
A pest is "a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns (as agriculture or livestock production)"; alternative meanings include organisms that cause nuisance and epidemic disease associated with high mortality (specifically: plague). In its broadest sense, a pest is a competitor of humanity.