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

Shimon Steinberg Natural pest control ... using bugs!

What is a pest?

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

Because, aren't they vermin?

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.

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

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.

Some fruits get some insect damage.

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

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?

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

(1) The environment inside and outside any food production or marketing establishment shall be kept clean and tidy measures shall be taken to eliminate flies, rodents, cockroaches and other harmful insects and to remove conditions for their propagation and a prescribed distance shall be kept from any toxic or harmful site

In areas with cross resistance between DDT and pyrethroids, it has been demonstrated that pyrethroid treated nets remain effective in preventing malaria. In such circumstances, the use of insecticide treated nets (ITNs) is a viable alternative to the use of DDT or pyrethroids for indoor residual spraying.

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

And thanks to Deworm the World, and the effort of many country governments and foundations, 20 million school aged children got dewormed in 2009.

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.

They control mosquito larvae, among other things.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Next, more harmful chemicals are sprayed on fruits and vegetables, like pesticides and herbicides, to kill weeds and bugs.

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

Similar to Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in agriculture, IVM will also minimize the development of insecticide resistance in disease vectors.

Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.

These include, among others, Insecticide treated nets (ITNs), larvicides, and vector source reduction through environmental management.

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

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.

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.

For a majority of malaria endemic regions, the main group of alternative insecticides currently applied for indoor residual spraying are pyrethroids.

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.

About 65 percent of Napa and Sonoma counties apos vineyards are planted with a grape rootstock vulnerable to a new variety of phylloxera, an aphid like insect that kills grapevines by sucking juice from their roots.

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.

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

In Afghanistan, the Government, WFP, UNICEF and WHO collaborated on a national deworming campaign.

Parties also suggested the need for measures to combat mud torrents, forest fires, pests and diseases.

Currently, there is only 1 carbamate and less than 5 organophosphate insecticides available on the public health market for indoor residual spraying as alternatives to DDT and pyrethroids.

And you can show, just by looking at data from literature, that vector borne diseases are more harmful than non vector borne diseases.