Course title
応用昆虫学特論   [Advanced Entomology]
Course category		Requirement		Credit	0.5
Department		Year	～	Semester	Fall
Course type	Fall	Course code	96131
Instructor(s)
仲井 まどか   [NAKAI Madoka]
Facility affiliation	Faculty of Agriculture	Office		Email address

Course description

“Uses of natural enemies of insect pests and their strategy to adapt their host insects” Pest problems of field crops and forestry are one of most important issue for applied entomology. Using chemical pesticides with wrong ways affect deleterious impact against human health and environment. Biological control is one of the alternative methods to control insect pests instead of chemical control. Biological control is a part of IPM in which we control the pest by natural way but does not cause deleterious impact as above. In this lecture we will focus on insect viruses as the biological control agents and their applied uses and biology. Insect viruses acquired host regulation mechanism to adapt holometabolous insects.

Expected Learning

Understanding of the basic knowledge about uses natural enemies as biological control agents and the research progress for interaction of insect hosts and their natural enemies. It would be nice if you can participate in the discussion of these fields.

Course schedule

1. Current status of biological control of insect pests 2. Biology of natural enemies of insect pests 3. Adaptation of natural enemies on insect pests

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Required Text(s) and Materials

Handouts will be provided in class.

References

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Assessment/Grading

Message from instructor(s)

I will try my best to show importance of research of natural enemies of insect pests and the exciting current research progress so far.

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3/28/2018 2:11:21 PM