You see in the upper left corner? You see a single predatory mite.

This is a predatory mite just as small as a spider mite one, two millimeters long, not more than that running quickly, hunting, chasing the spider mites.

This is a spider mite.

This is a spider mite.

It was filled with sculptures of predatory animals.

I have one gram of those predatory mites.

This is a dust mite on a nanoreplica.

Have we ever heard of a dust mite?

Darren dust mite and his family moved in.

Poor little mite, I'm anxious to see you.

And this is the whole bunch of predatory mites.

Well, you're a bit mite late, ain't you, babe?

According to Tom, Mary is just a predatory guru who promises gain.

It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean.

The Armillaria is actually a predatory fungus, killing certain species of trees in the forest.

And after five minutes, this is what you see just a typical dead corpse the shriveled, sucked out, dead corpse of the spider mite, and next to it, two satiated individuals, predatory mites, a mother on the left hand side, a young nymph on the right hand side.

And from out of stage left comes this wild, male polar bear, with a predatory gaze.

like vultures that pick them off on a beach or predatory fish that are waiting offshore.

There isn't going to be an Armageddon for this planet. No predatory species is going to invade us.

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

But on the other side of that predatory gaze is a female husky in a play bow, wagging her tail.

Now, the varroa mite is what changed the game in beekeeping, and you can see, at the top right, the years are changing, we're coming up to modern times, and you can see the spread of the varroa mite from the early 1900s through now.

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

What you can see up here is a map of the world, and we're tracking the spread of this varroa mite.

I believe you may have a very special brain anomaly that makes you ... special, and interested in the predatory spirit, and fearless.

And in 30,000 square meters of state of the art greenhouses, there, we are mass producing those predatory mites, those minute pirate bugs, those parasitic wasps, etc.

Now one should think this problem affected people certainly when in predatory societies, they killed animals and they didn't know they had done so after a few generations.

Any of you who've been to Africa or had a junkyard dog come after you, there is a fixed kind of predatory gaze that you know you're in trouble.

J.J. from Good Times, (Applause) significant to many people of course because of Dy no mite, but perhaps more significant as the first, really, black artist on primetime TV.

And here, you can see this lady in action on your left hand side just pierces, sucks the body fluids on the left hand side of the pest mite.

But it could be close to zero, if we're thinking about an ant, or we're thinking about a dust mite, or maybe if you consider even a bacterium an animal.

Now this has been a huge problem for many years, basically since the late 1980s, when the varroa mite came and brought many different viruses, bacteria and fungal diseases with it.

And so I think that we evolved ... there was a natural selection for the propensity for our belief engines, our pattern seeking brain processes, to always find meaningful patterns and infuse them with these sort of predatory or intentional agencies that I'll come back to.

1971, we saw it spread to Europe and South America, and then, when we get to the 1980s, and specifically to 1987, the varroa mite finally came to North America and to the United States, and that is when the game changed for honeybees in the United States.