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?

Because, aren't they vermin?

They're a pest, a plague.

They knew him as irritating vermin.

Participation of women in tending to and caring for sheep

Shimon Steinberg Natural pest control ... using bugs!

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

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.

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

Just wait till I get you, little pest.

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

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

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

Grumpy, Bashful and Sleepy.

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

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

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

Some fruits get some insect damage.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A poor little fellow that never meant nobody no harm.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

ISPM 15 is an international standard for the treatment of solid wood packaging material to prevent the spread of forest pests, specifically those attacking standing timber.

That means she has 400 bad aphids to put her eggs into their body fluids.

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

But again, the question is, here you saw them on a one to one basis the pest, the natural enemy.

I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight.

You're a bug.

It's all motheaten!

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

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

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

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