What Is a Pest?

This episode comes with a free worksheet over on the website, the BritishEnglish podcast. So grab that and you can listen along whilst using it. A pest is some kind of insect or animal, which is either annoying to humans, like a mouse or a rat,. Or it's something, an insect or animal that is destructive to plants, livestock, things on a farm. That's what my ex used to call me an undesirable animal. I wonder why are we talking you're an ex?