1.   The advice often given is to dip heavily-populated rocks in boiling water to eradicate the pest.

2.   And other nations are relying more and more on irradiation to preserve fruits, eradicate pests from crops and ensure the safety of meat.

3.   Buchanan-Roth has carefully applied predator insects such as green lacewings and special mites to eradicate pests such as aphids and persea mites.

4.   He urged every citizen to join Operation Miconia to help eradicate the pest.

5.   While he offers a money-back guarantee, Leitzel stressed that homeowners should be extremely wary of trying to eradicate pests themselves.

6.   Work is being done to eradicate the pest elsewhere in the world.

7.   Queensland Primary Industries Minister Henry Palaszczuk said officials were confident of eradicating the pest, despite failures in other countries.

8.   The department has no plans yet to eradicate the pest.

9.   The issuing of gun licences to estate owners, farmers and smallholders to eradicate pests will only encourage them to be trigger-happy hunters.

10.   The newspaper did not say how Vietnam was planning now to eradicate the pest.