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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

In some cases, the cost of exterminating the pests exceeds the value of the paintings.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 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

During those four weeks in Carthage, McCandless worked hard, doing dirty, tedious jobs that nobody else wanted to tackle: mucking out warehouses, exterminating vermin, painting, scything weeds.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer