1.   We regard them as unnecessary creatures that do more harm than good.

2.   We continually wage war on them, for they contaminate our food, carry diseases, or devour our crops.

3.   Millions of ravenous rats in Thai Binh have been devouring rice crops by the acre.

4.   One villager committed suicide after discovering that the locusts had devoured her crops, the officials said.

5.   The Kazak locusts have spread north into neighboring Russia, and south into another Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan, devouring crops.

6.   The pest had recently devoured crops in Iraq and Iran, he said.

7.   Cuba accused the United States Wednesday of unleashing a plague of insects to devour crops and undermine its food supply.

8.   Cuba charged the United States Wednesday with unleashing a literal plague of insects to devour crops and undermine its food supply.