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

The Beatles did not invent teenagers.

And finally never ever join the Beatles.

These goliath beetles are wired in their wings.

If the wind blows them over, they're like beetles stuck there on the ground.

This beetle can detect a forest fire at 80 kilometers away.

Because if you look closely at the beetle's shell, there are lots of little bumps on that shell.

Turning rocks over revealed this crab spider grappling with a beetle.

Now wouldn't you know it, there's some beetles that just love to make love at that temperature.

I'll give you two examples.

Let's start with Beatle mania hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium.

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.

So when the moist breeze blows in off the sea, you get these droplets of water forming on the beetle's shell.

This is the Namibian fog basking beetle, and it's evolved a way of harvesting its own fresh water in a desert.

And this one is evolved to mimic a glossy metallic surface you see on some beetles.

There was a guy called Dick Rowe who was at Decca Records and turned down The Beatles.

And then at the back of the greenhouse, it condenses a lot of that humidity as freshwater in a process that is effectively identical to the beetle.

And this is an x ray picture of a real beetle, and a Swiss watch, back from '88. You look at that what was true then is certainly true today.

And the effect of this is that as the droplets start to form on the bumps, they stay in tight, spherical beads, which means they're much more mobile than they would be if it was just a film of water over the whole beetle's shell.

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.

And then finally you know, the best of all possible worlds some of you recognize this young photo of Pete Best, who was the original drummer for the Beatles, until they, you know, sent him out on an errand and snuck away and picked up Ringo on a tour.

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!

We can make the circuitry of the right computational power, but we can't actually put them together to make something that will actually work and be as adaptive as these systems.

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.

Well, in 1994, when Pete Best was interviewed yes, he's still a drummer yes, he's a studio musician he had this to say I'm happier than I would have been with the Beatles.

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

MBTOC analysed the results and found that for all situations and all crops tested, one or more of the alternatives proved comparable to MB for the control of target pests diseases.

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.

If the rate of infectious and parasitic diseases in a three year period in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is observed, it becomes evident that the trend is, more or less, constant with the exception of parotitis epidemical and virus hepatitis A.