With school back in session, lice are making a comeback as well, with parents scrambling for long-lasting solutions to eradicate them.

An Israeli agro-tech company has come up with a novel solution to diminish the use of chemical pesticides on fruits and vegetables: Spray them with pest-fighting vegetable oils!

After irrigation and dairy-farming, will the next great Israeli-inspired agricultural revolution be in pesticides? Israeli company Bio-Bee, which fights pests with other insects thinks so, as it launches operations in India.

Despite their sting, bees are an important part of the food chain, due to their role as pollinators. For years, scientists have been trying to find pesticides that don't harm them. Israeli scientists now say the answer may be a hormone derived from the bees themselves.

Dealing with pests is never an easy task for farmers, having to navigate between keeping their crops pest-free and not using harmful chemicals. Israeli farmers at the Arava region use another method – predatory insects that kill pests but not crops.

An Israeli film depicting the advantages of using barn owls and kestrels in place of pesticides won first prize in an international film competition that concluded on Friday. The movie, less than 11 minutes long, examines the benefits of natural pest control - the barn owl and kestrel raptor.

If you've ever been disgusted by the sight of a winged creature flying out of a newly opened box of cereal or other packaged food, read on. Israel's Bio[pack] makes a package coating from plant extracts already programmed by nature to repel insects. It can also be sprayed around the perimeter of warehouses.