infested

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Infested trees can die with three to five years, while white fir withstand infestation with no apparent ill effects.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2024

Infested, she means, by an invasive insect called the emerald ash borer, which for years has been munching its way across North America, leaving huge patches of dead forest in its wake.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

Infested areas are rife with ants that stream up and down tree trunks, says Edward LeBrun, an ecologist at the University of Texas, Austin’s Brackenridge Field Laboratory and an author of the new paper.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 27, 2022

Infested moose often host tens of thousands of ticks, which burrow into their skin to suck their blood.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2021

Infested by every description of vagabond and miscreant, it was, perhaps, a few degrees worse than the rookery near Saint Giles's and the desperate neighbourhood of Saffron Hill in our own time.

From Jack Sheppard A Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison