Lancet flukes aren't smart.

It learned to move and began to see. The first eyes grew on trilobites.

Well, it's because its brain had been infected with a lancet fluke that was needed to get into the belly of a sheep or a cow in order to reproduce.

I submit that the intelligence of a lancet fluke is down there somewhere between petunia and carrot.

You just twist leaves, and you see a whole new world of minute insects, or little spiders of one millimeter, one and a half, two millimeters long, and you can distinguish between the good ones and the bad ones.

Little Worm

What vermin some vermin are.

It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean.

The pests that the standard seeks to control are typically insect pests and other pests and diseases vectored by insects.

And, in places where there are worms, intestinal worms, cure the kids of their worms.

They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae.

They're just parasite hotels even their parasites have parasites.

And look, this flower is flooded with predatory bugs, with the good ones after wiping out the bad ones, the thrips.

Shimon Steinberg Natural pest control ... using bugs!

Is that so parasitic?

And it shows the Earth in a time flag on the right, in trilobites and dinosaurs and so on and over the triangle, we now get to civilization and TV and traffic jams and so on.

I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight.

Help me!

A worm?

Moths.

Ladybugs!

If you look at the first slide there, that's the temporal lobes, frontal lobes, parietal lobes, OK the lobes that constitute the brain.

And we're finding amoebas like this. This is the amoeba dubia.

Again, we'll start first with the pest the thrips.

Why not eat insects? Well first, what are insects?

Larvicides New larvicides, such as microbial products or insect development inhibitors (IDI), are now available that are more environmentally friendly.

Sort of a timeline, very non linear scale, nature rates and trilobites and dinosaurs, and eventually we saw some humans with caves ... Birds were flying overhead, after pterosaurs.

Salmon swim upstream to get to their spawning grounds, and lancet flukes commandeer a passing ant, crawl into its brain, and drive it up a blade of grass like an all terrain vehicle.

Deworming.

Leechers

Worm

Wormhole

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Worm

Wormhole

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3x3x3, Worm

Leechers

Bugfixer

Parasites!

A bug!

Contrary to insecticides which target adult vectors, there are a number of new larvicides under development.

Malaria afflicts 300 million people and is the world s biggest killer of children. Many parasites are worms hookworm (800 million people infected), roundworm (1.5 billion), schistosomes (200 million), and the worm that causes Elephantiasis (150 million).

On your right hand side you can see a cucumber leaf, and on the middle, cotton leaf, and on the left a tomato leaf with these little stipplings.

And actually one of the wormeries was a big wormery. I had a lot of worms in it.