BIO 458

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• Course Description:

  The course aims to provide students with basic principles of common insects of economic and medical importance in the local environment, diseases and damages they can inflict. Other topics include pest control as well as beneficial insects and making use of them.

   

• Course Main Objective:

1. To classify economic and medical insects and their characteristics.
2.  To understand important methods of pest control and making use of beneficial insects
3.  To use different laboratory techniques for classification.
4.  To compare and understand the different structure and function of animals in many fields of Zoology

    

• Learning Resources

1. Service, M.W. (1996). Medical Entomology for Students. Chapmann & Hall . London .
2. Abo-Zaid, M., Alsibaey, A. and Tantour, J. (1974) Principal of Plant Protection and Agricultural Pest Control
3. Gary R. Mullen, Lance A. Durden. (2019). Medical and Veterinary Entomology 3rd Edition. Academic Press
4. Richard Russell, Domenico Otranto, Richard Wall. (2013) Encyclopedia of Medical and Veterinary Entomology
5. https://bioone.org/journals/florida-entomologist/volume-85/issue2/0015- 4040(2002)085%5B0400%3AHOEI%5D2.0.CO%3B2/Heteropteraof-Economic-Importance/10.1653/0015- 4040(2002)085[0400:HOEI]2.0.CO;2.full
6. http://www.cnrs.fr/en/invasive-insects-underestimated-cost-worldeconomy
7. https://www.jcehrlich.com/blog/medical-uses-for-insects
8. https://bioone.org/journals/Journal-of-Ethnobiology/volume-25/issue1/0278-0771(2005)25[93:EOTMUO]2.0.CO;2/Entomotherapy-orthe-Medicinal-Use-of-Insects/10.2993/0278- 0771(2005)25[93:EOTMUO]2.0.CO;2.short
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insects_in_medicine