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

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

They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae.

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

The first way is that you use larvicides.

The larvae have to develop very quickly.

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

Little larvae hatch out in fresh water.

They control mosquito larvae, among other things.

They feed on other little things. They feed on mosquito larvae.

And what they're doing is very interesting they're digging through the cow patties for the maggots, the grubs, the larvae of flies.

And already, commercial oyster larvae are dying at large scales in some places.

And after a few days, depending upon temperature, the egg will hatch and the larva of this parasite will eat the aphid from the inside.

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

Resistance to larvicides is not an issue and will likely remain as such in the foreseeable future.

If you take a sea urchin larva from 8.1, put it in a pH of 7.7 not a huge change it becomes deformed and dies.

So these organisms reproduce, the little larvae juveniles spill over, they all spill over, and then people can benefit from them outside too.

And fertilizers and pesticides are flowing into the bay from the golf course the pesticides killing all the larvae and little animals, fertilizer creating this beautiful plankton bloom and there's your pea soup.

These include stable and easy to use formulations of bacteria or slow release formulations of insect development inhibitors (IDIs), which may remain active for months at very low concentrations (in the range of parts per billion) in artificial breeding sites such as water tanks.

And the reason he's waited three days is because he knows that on the fourth day or the fifth day, those larvae will hatch and he'll have a huge fly problem.

Two newt eggs, laid on orbit, survived, and a high percentage of pre orbit selected eggs remained viable as embryos and larvae.

This is another version of that. This is a sea dragon, and the one on the bottom, the blue one, is a juvenile that has not yet swallowed the acid, has not yet taken in the brown green algae pond scum into its body to give it energy.

A good example comes from Nepal, whose local centres are attended by over 10,000 young children and are supported by parent orientation, iron supplementation, growth monitoring and deworming efforts.

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'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.

For example, immunization contacts can be linked with other interventions such as the distribution of insecticide treated materials for the prevention of malaria, vitamin A supplements and information sharing on infant feeding.

Shimon Steinberg Natural pest control ... using bugs!

I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight.

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).

Kindergarten begins in kindergarten.

And typically, there is a lot of variation, but if you have a dragonfly with, say, a one year life cycle, which is quite typical, the larva, living in the fresh water, lives for 10 or 11 months.

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.

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.