EEMS 4365 Integrated Pest Management
This course provides a fundamental understanding of the theory and practice of modern integrated pest management strategies, and will cover a wide variety of pest types (e.g., insects, plants, fungi, nematodes) and methodologies (e.g., biological control, pesticides, hormone disruption, sterile insect techniques), with a focus on biological control strategies for insect pests in agricultural and natural systems. Students will attain proficiency in developing integrated pest management plans and in executing biological control meaning targeting several local pest species.