ENTO 401. INDEX Page
Lectures
Lecture 1: Introduction to ENTO 401 (08/27)
Lecture
2 :
Lecture
3 : When should IPM be
implemented? Sampling and yield lost (09/03)
Lecture 4 : An ecological foundation for IPM (09/05)
Lecture
5 : Autoecological research on pests and natural enemies (09/10)
Required Reading Autoecological
research on pests and natural enemies. Gimme
H. Walter. Chapter 9.
Lecture
6 : Biological Control Principles
(09/12)
Lecture
7:
Biological Control Strategies (09/17)
EXAM 1 (09/19)
Lecture
8:
Biological Control Strategies II (9/24)
Lecture
9: Biological
Control Strategies III (9/26)
Lecture
10: Safe Biological Control (10/01)
Required Reading Safe Biological
Control. Ann E. Hajek. Chapter 18.
Lecture
11: Insecticides
(10/03)
Lecture
12: Insecticide
Resistance and Eco-toxicology (10/08)
EXAM 2 (10/10)
Lecture 13: The pesticide paradox in IPM. Risk-benefit analysis (10/15)
Required Reading The pesticide paradox in IPM.
Risk-benefit analysis. Text Chapter 8.
Lecture
14: Behavior modifying chemicals. Prospects
and Constrains (10/17)
Lecture
15: Cultural and Interference Methods
(10/22)
Lecture
16: Host-plant resistance (10/24)
Lecture
17: Transgenic Insecticidal Cultivars.
Challenges and Opportunities (10/29)
Required Reading
Transgenic Insecticidal Cultivars. Challenges and Opportunities. Text Chapter 6
PRINT IT YOURSELF
EXAM 3 (10/31)
Lecture
18: Manipulation of host-finding and
acceptance behaviors in insects (11/05)
Lecture
19: Understanding species in an IPM context
(11/07)
Lecture 20: Microevolution and IPM Part 1 (11/12)
Required Reading Microevolution in biological control:
Mechanisms, patterns, and processes. Huffbauer
and Roderick 2005.
Lecture
21: Microevolution and IPM Part 2
(11/14)
Lecture 22: Manipulation of Tri-Trofic interactions for IPM (11/19)
Lecture 23: Thanksgiving Break (11/21)
Lecture
24: Consumer response to IPM and the future
of IPM (11/26)
Laboratory/Discussion
Week 3 Lab: Identifying our friends and foes (9/10).
Week 4 Lab: Insect Sampling. Comparing feral and cultivated
ecosystems
Week 5 Lab: Analyzing samples from field trip
Week 6 Lab: Comparing samples means using a T-test
Protocol Lab
Report Guidelines
Week 7 Lab: Parasitoid host selection versus host-suitability
Week 8 Lab: Invasive species video
Week 9 Lab: IPM in the real world
Week 10 Lab: The transgenic crops controversy (Debate)
Week 11 Lab: Life Tables
Week 12 Lab: Insect Growth Regulators
Week 13 Lab: IPM case studies (student presentations)
Week 14 Lab: IPM case studies (student presentations)