I became interested in entomopathogenic fungi fungi that kill insects.

Of the cases reported in Guatemala, 95 per cent are caused by the type of malaria known as Plasmodium vivax and 5 per cent are due to Plasmodium falciparum.

So here's an image of red blood cells, and now we can actually map where the hemozoin and where the malaria parasites are inside those red blood cells.

So we thought, Well, we've done all these things that are focused on the Plasmodium, the parasite involved.

This company, Synthetic Genomics, I'm involved with, created the first full synthetic genome for a little bug, a very primitive creature called Mycoplasma genitalium.

We also have another hemozoin oriented therapy for malaria a way, in acute cases, to actually take the malaria parasite and filter it out of the blood system.

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

It's produced by the malaria parasite and it's a very interesting crystalline substance.

We can see it because of this molecule called hemozoin.

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

And I believe, many scientists believe that pesticides are an important part of that decline.

Sort of like doing dialysis, but for relieving the parasite load.

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.

You could fly 100 Ph.D. students under the umbrella of this concept, because my supposition is that entomopathogenic fungi, prior to sporulation, attract the very insects that are otherwise repelled by those spores.

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).

In other technical areas, the International Atomic Energy Agency assisted the Palestinian Authority with agricultural pest control.

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

Although Plasmodium vivax does not cause severe illness, it has a high morbidity rate, which affects mainly young people and mature adults (42 per cent).

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.

And she's actually figuring out how to make a collision avoidance circuitry based on this very large neuron in the locust.

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

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

The reason for poor quality has been overly high pesticide and heavy metals quantities cadmium, lead and arsenic, coupled with incomplete and unharmonized declarations on the original packing of food.

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.

Well, the problem was in thinking that the insect wings function in the way that aircraft wings work. But they don't.

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

Rescue the bugs!

You're a bug.

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?