infestation

infest | American Dictionary

infest
verb[ T ]
us/ɪnˈfest/
(of insects and some animals) to be present in large numbers, sometimes causing disease or damage:
When we first moved in, the apartment was infested with cockroaches.

Examples of infest

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The number of visits is given according to the abundance of trees, infested trees and mistletoes.
The stems were prepared as described above, and infested with prey as for the mixed prey density treatment (iv) previously described.
The cane-cutters preferred the twelve-month cane; the 24-month cane was reported to be harder to cut, had lodged and was infested with weeds.
Most species do not infest fruits and are economically harmless.
However, it is still unknown if the fly infests mangoes grown at such elevations.
The family lived in conditions of extreme social disadvantage, including currently having a council house infested with rats.
Five infested and three uninfested control plants were available to estimate biomass loss at maturity for each accession.
Quantitative differences were apparent for tridecane which was released in larger amounts from infested seeds.
Some planters do not realise the disastrous effects which follow when cane-tops infested with borers are planted.
Taken together they were infested by adults of five species of ticks and immature ticks belonging to four genera (147 records in all).
Regardless, additional studies on previously infested plants documenting psyllid growth and development as well as potential changes in plant chemistry would be beneficial.
Open circles and the dashed line represent individuals with light liana loads (0-25% of the crown infested).
However, reversing this sequence, by planting either proso millet or sun-ower before corn, is not effective because of extensive volunteer crop plants infesting corn.
The impact of aphids on wheat seedlings was estimated as the difference in biomass between infested plants and means for control plants (plant biomass lost).
Possibly, rodents are unable to determine whether endocarps are infested or not through the thick stony endocarp wall.
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