Integrated Pest Management (Laboratory)

The aim of this course is the students to be familiar with pest identification and το on time decision taken to implement the appropriate eco-fiendly control methods at field level in relation to integrated management of crop production.

Objectives

Providing knowledge to the students for controlling pests by methods that are friednly to people and the environment.

Prerequisites

General Phytopathology, Agricultural Entomology & Zoology, Advanced Phytopathology, Agricultural Entomology & Zoology of Pomology & Viticulture, Agricultural Entomology & Zoology of Field Crops, Organic farming.

Syllabus

A. Integrated Crop Protection Intoduction, Definition & Basic principles of this method. The agroecosystem and their factors that influence on it's function. Determination of the most important pests and their natural enemies. Prognosis. Pest monitoring. Defining the economical threshold. Defining the appropriate time for implementing control measures. Selection of the control method. Use of selective insectisides, technological means, natural enemies. Resistant plant into the frame of integrated crop protection. Paradigms of integrated pest management implementation. B. Biological control. General principles of the method. Parasitoids and predators. Natural enemies and ways of mentaining and increasing the populations of these natural enemies. Natural enemies of incsects, mites and nematods. Pests of cultured plants and their biological control. Plant diseases and their biological control.