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ZOOL 32042

>< Type/status : Elective course for biological science students. Not open for students following B. Sc. (Special) Degree Programme in Zoology.
>< Title : Applied Entomology and Plant Nematology Laboratory
>< Pre-requisite : ZOOL 12022
>< Co-requisite : ZOOL 32034
>< Objectives: By the end of this course students will be able to demonstrate procedures and techniques used in studying the biology and control of insect, mite and nematode pests in Sri Lanka.
>< Course content:

Demonstrations on life stages and damage symptoms of economically important insect and mite pests of rice, coconut, tea, sugarcane, selected fruit and vegetable crops and stored products, Techniques for preservation, mounting and permanent slide preparations of insects, Use of insect taxonomic keys for the identification of pests to the order and genus levels (ants and aphids), Concepts in insect pest management, Natural enemies of insect and mite pests, Insecticides and application equipment, Biological control programmes in Sri Lanka, Insect rearing methods, Household pests, Demonstrations on life stages of insect vectors that are of medical importance in Sri Lanka.

Soil sampling for population studies of plant-parasitic nematodes; Extraction of nematodes from soil and plants, preservation, mounting and identification of nematodes.

>< Methodology: Laboratory exercises
>< Scheme of evaluation: End of semester practical examination and continuous assessment
>< Recommended reading:
1. Hill, D. S. (1979) Agricultural insect pests of the tropics and their control. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2. Atwal, A. S. and Dhaliwal, G. S. (1997) Agricultural pests of South Asia and their management. Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.
3. Kettle, D. S. (1997) Medical and veterinary entomology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
4. Nickle, W. R. (1991) Manual of agricultural nematology. Marcel dekker Inc., New York.
5. Luc, M., Sikora, R. A. and Bridge, J. (1993) Plant parasitic nematodes in subtropical and tropical agriculture, CAB International, Wallingford, U.K.

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