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!

I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight.

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

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?

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).

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

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

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.

They've created a kind of insect bot, or bugbot.

Here you can see the adult, black, and two young ones.

Deworming.

A lethal dose of the insecticide is absorbed by insects which come into contact with the surface.

Unfortunately, this group of insecticides are also heavily relied on in agriculture, animal husbandry, space spraying, and for household pest control.

By the way, with aphids you have only females, like Amazons.

Rescue the bugs!

You're a bug.

I became interested in entomopathogenic fungi fungi that kill insects.

These infections are known as the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). They are unfamiliar to the developed world, and their names are often difficult to pronounce filariasis (elephantiasis), onchocerciasis (river blindness), schistosomiasis (bilharzia), and others, particularly intestinal worms.

What is a pest?

Who likes insects?

Are you afraid of insects?

Are you afraid of bugs?

And I would like to know what the audience is, and so who of you ever ate insects?

If you produce insects, you have less manure per kilogram of meat that you produce.

We're not used to it, and we see insects as these organisms that are very different from us.

It may turn out to be something that looks a little like that amoeba.

Small animals eat insects.

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Americans spent, in 2001 11 percent of all pesticide use was done on lawns.

This beetle, unlike this chip bag here, this beetle uses one material, chitin.

Sometimes the whole plant mimics an insect, even to us.

Insecticides (adulticides) There is no new insecticide available or in the pipeline that could be used for residual spraying, and none is expected for the foreseeable future unless urgent action is taken.

Theses larvicides can be used to treat well identified and accessible larval breeding sites, especially within urban environments (mostly man made).

Because, aren't they vermin?

On the right, that's a radiolara.

Why good bugs?

What do they do?