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From the Ted Talk by Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs!

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

This is all natural. This is all natural. This is not ftoicin, nothing at all. Again — in your backyard. In your backyard.

(Laughter)

(Applause)

But this is the end result: mummies. This is the visual result of a dead apihd epnsnaomiscg inside, a developing parasitoid that, after a few minutes, you see halfway out. The bitrh is almost complete. You can see, by the way, in different moeivs, etc., it takes just a few minutes. And if this is a female, she'll immediately mate with a male and off she goes, because time is very short. This female can live only three to four days, and she needs to give rise to around 400 eggs. That means she has 400 bad ahipds to put her eggs into their body fluids. This is, of course, not the end of it.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

This is all natural. This is all natural. This is not _______, nothing at all. Again — in your backyard. In your backyard.

(Laughter)

(Applause)

But this is the end result: mummies. This is the visual result of a dead _____ ____________ inside, a developing parasitoid that, after a few minutes, you see halfway out. The _____ is almost complete. You can see, by the way, in different ______, etc., it takes just a few minutes. And if this is a female, she'll immediately mate with a male and off she goes, because time is very short. This female can live only three to four days, and she needs to give rise to around 400 eggs. That means she has 400 bad ______ to put her eggs into their body fluids. This is, of course, not the end of it.

Solution


  1. aphid
  2. movies
  3. encompassing
  4. aphids
  5. fiction
  6. birth

Original Text


(Laughter)

This is all natural. This is all natural. This is not fiction, nothing at all. Again — in your backyard. In your backyard.

(Laughter)

(Applause)

But this is the end result: mummies. This is the visual result of a dead aphid encompassing inside, a developing parasitoid that, after a few minutes, you see halfway out. The birth is almost complete. You can see, by the way, in different movies, etc., it takes just a few minutes. And if this is a female, she'll immediately mate with a male and off she goes, because time is very short. This female can live only three to four days, and she needs to give rise to around 400 eggs. That means she has 400 bad aphids to put her eggs into their body fluids. This is, of course, not the end of it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
biological control 7
body fluids 4
sweet pepper 4
plant protection 3
natural enemies 3
minute pirate 3
biological pest 2
natural control 2
control phenomenon 2
single egg 2
predatory mite 2
spider mites 2
dead corpse 2
pest mites 2
giving rise 2
predatory mites 2
good bugs 2
public demand 2
give nature 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
biological control phenomenon 2

Important Words


  1. aphid
  2. aphids
  3. applause
  4. backyard
  5. bad
  6. birth
  7. body
  8. complete
  9. days
  10. dead
  11. developing
  12. eggs
  13. encompassing
  14. female
  15. fiction
  16. fluids
  17. give
  18. halfway
  19. immediately
  20. laughter
  21. live
  22. male
  23. mate
  24. means
  25. minutes
  26. movies
  27. mummies
  28. natural
  29. parasitoid
  30. put
  31. result
  32. rise
  33. short
  34. takes
  35. time
  36. visual