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Old style pest control - not biological. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Lavi Bio reports successful results in the development of biological fungicides

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pest control Photo: ds 30-Dmitriy Pixabay

Studies show - today's pest control is less dangerous and more economical

A female golden jackal in Yarkon Park. Photo: Artemy Voikhansky, Wikipedia.

Predators - enemies or friends?

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In the last two years, a new pest has appeared in Israel that threatens to harm eucalyptus trees: the eucalyptus bug. Photo: Yehudit Garinkol via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection project.

The Australian Stinger

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A wasp magnified under a microscope. Photo: shutterstock

160 million parasitic wasps were sent from Israel to South Africa to eliminate pests in a natural and clean way

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owl. Photo: shutterstock

Animals in the service of agriculture

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A common fruit bat eats a fig and thus spreads its seeds. Photo: Вых Пыхманн, Wikipedia

Eco-friendly vampire

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Sterilized flies. Photo: BioBee company, Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu

Israel sent Croatia 380 million sterilized flies that will reduce the population of fruit flies

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Aedes aegypti mosquito bites a person. Photo: shutterstock

The mosquitoes and the bacteria will fight the fever

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Prof. Yaakov Ketan. Photo: The Hebrew University.

Israel Prize for Agriculture and Environmental Sciences to Prof. Yaakov Katan who developed a pest control system with the help of solar energy

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Warming affects the species distribution and size of Orius bugs. Photo courtesy of BioBee

(Climate) change starts with bedbugs

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Adult Aedes aegypti mosquito. From Wikipedia

The Destroying Garden / Bijal P. Trivedi

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An oil can be extracted from the tobacco leaves that looks promising as a natural insect repellent. Photo: iStock

Tobacco and nicotine as pesticides

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The tiger mosquito = Asian tiger = Aedes albopictus

A scientific breakthrough may help in the fight against mosquitoes

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The tiger mosquito = Asian tiger = Aedes albopictus

Mosquitoes and birds versus sprays

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fruit fly. Photo: Roi Caspi, Hebrew University

An environmentally friendly pest control method

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The insect war

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Sterile flies from the Eliyahu field will exterminate females that destroy crops

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