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Liias — who is a self-proclaimed pollinator champion — recently sponsored Senate Bill 5972 to restrict neonicotinoids, or a particularly harmful class of pesticides that kill indiscriminately, exterminating not only pests but also countless pollinators.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2024

"They are called weeds by gardeners, but they have value, and we should be celebrating the dandelions not exterminating them," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2023

“Why did he do that? Because the culture was exterminating too. He just went along with what the outer world was telling him.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2023

Managers could consider adding artificial salt licks to places that lack them, for example, or exterminating goats in areas where they were introduced.

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2022

Kuru was on its way to exterminating New Guinea’s Foré tribe of 20,000 people, until the establishment of Australian government control around 1959 ended cannibalism and thereby the transmission of kuru.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond