LGALS4 and Nematoda infectious disease: To get a better understanding of the role hemocytes play during nematode infections, we depleted them in larvae using a previously established method that relies on expression of the pro-apoptotic protein Hid in combination with the hemocyte-specific Hemolectin driver (hmlDelta-Gal4, in the following abbreviated as hml-Gal4) [5, 6].