This is a spider mite.

This is a spider mite.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.