Applied Entomology

LECTURES

1. Brief introduction to arthropods

2. Enemies harmful to agriculture

3. Diagnosis of arthropod infestations

4. Arthropods harmful in other areas

5. Population monitoring and control methods.

6. Productive insects

7. Beneficial arthropods in biological control

8. Other uses of arthropods

9. Arthropods in food chains, protected, as well as ecological indicators.

10. Quarantine insects and their management

11. Insect ecology

12. Insect and host plant relationships

13. IPM strategies and methods

Practical

1. Insect-enemies of apples: aphids, fleas, coccoids, hemiptera, wood-eaters and other coleoptera.

2. Insects-enemies of apples (continued): lepidoptera (fruit borers, leaf and wood destroyers, leafhoppers, sawflies, diptera, etc. Harmful mites of apples

3. Enemies of stone fruit insects: aphids, coccoids, wood-eating and leaf-eating beetles, lepidoptera (anarchs, fruit borers), diptera.

4. Insect-enemies of Citrus: thrips, aphids, mealybugs, lepidoptera, (leaf binder, leaf blower, flower borer), Mediterranean fly. Harmful mite of stone fruits and citrus fruits.

5. Insects-enemies of Vine: Thrips, phylloxera, coccoids, cicadas, earwigs and other leaf-eating and wood-eating beetles, eudemis and other lepidoptera, diptera.

6. Insects-enemies of the Olive: thrips, coccoids, fleas, hemiptera, wood-eaters, leaf-eaters and fruit-eater beetles.

7. Insects-enemies of the olive tree (continued): lepidoptera (margots, stoneflies, etc.) diptera (dakos, midges). Harmful mite of Vine and Olive.