What vermin some vermin are.

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

What is a pest?

Participation of women in tending to and caring for sheep

Shimon Steinberg Natural pest control ... using bugs!

At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in our quest for perfect produce.

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

Because, aren't they vermin?

Just wait till I get you, little pest.

And then I moved to the world of plant protection plant protection from insects, from bad bugs.

The system would consider climatic conditions, vegetation, locusts and pesticides.

Grumpy, Bashful and Sleepy.

They're a pest, a plague.

They knew him as irritating vermin.

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

Some fruits get some insect damage.

The strategy adopted concentrated on fighting the pest, and insufficient attention was given to mitigating the impact of the infestation on local livelihoods and the environment.

Here is a pest, devastating pest, a spider mite, because it does a lot of webbing like a spider.

Because biological control phenomenon, you can see it in your backyard.

And then within plant protection, I came into the discipline of biological pest control which we actually define as the use of living organisms to reduce populations of noxious plant pests.

A poor little fellow that never meant nobody no harm.

Improved soil fertility management and insect and pest management are also considered important adaptation options in some countries.

By the way, a meal for them for 24 hours is about five individuals of the spider mites, of the bad mites, or 15 to 20 eggs of the pest mites.

Use biotechnology where useful, particularly in pest and disease resistance.

And what is the natural enemy, the biologically controlled agent, or the good bug, that we are talking about?

So you have less waste, and the waste that you have is not as environmental malign as it is with cow dung.

Even here, there is another grower, you see, very interested in the bugs, the bad ones and the good ones, wearing this magnifier already on her head, just walking safely in her crop.

But this is a nice, slender, very bad pest.

And biological pest control, by the way, or these good bugs that we are talking about, they've existed in the world for thousands and thousands of years, for a long, long time.

The country is still coping with a locust invasion that started in December 2004, which has affected crops, including the important cashew cash crop.

Expresses its appreciation to those organizations and countries that have provided assistance to Guinea Bissau in controlling the locust invasion that is undermining its already fragile economy, and appeals to the international community to provide additional assistance

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

They control pests, and they're food for animals.

And ticks and poison ivy and snakes and skunks on his farm...

Likewise, projects aimed at raising the awareness of the toxicological and ecotoxicological risks of pesticides and pointing out ways to reduce pesticide use have been put into place.

The severity of the 1991 oil spills and the extent of the areas affected are well documented.

Today's best variety is tomorrow's lunch for insects or pests or disease.

Funny. We've got lots of insecticides today that don't hurt humans.

Each issue of the List is sent to major non governmental organizations that are active in this area, such as the Pesticide Action Network, which opposes the misuse of pesticides and supports reliance on safe and sustainable pest control methods.

FAO continues to contribute, with the use of remote sensing technology, to the development of schemes to control pest diseases.

Although some pest problems were encountered, the results were, in general, favourable.

Little Worm

And even though they're used in labs to promote human lives, they're also considered pests.

The African continent has benefited from the Agency's capacity building in applying SIT for the eradication of tsetse flies and other pests.

A drought or pest that destroys a harvest turns subsistence into starvation.