KUK - LMS

Syllabus

MODULE NO / UNIT	COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE	NOTES
Course Code: B-ZOO-602 (i Course Name: Pest Management
1	Study of important insect pests of crops and vegetables: 1. Sugarcane: (With their systematic position, habits and nature of damage cause. Life cycle and control of Pyrilla perpusilla only). (a) Sugarcane leaf-hopper (Pyrilla perpusilla) (b) Sugarcane Whitefly (Aleurolobus barodensis) (c) Sugarcane top borer (Sciropophaga nivella) (d) Sugarcane root borer (Emmalocera depresella) (e) Gurdaspur borer (Bissetia steniellus) 2. Cotton: (With their systematic position, habits and nature of damage caused. Life cycle and control of Pectinophore gossypiella) (a) Pink bollworm (Pestinophora gossypfolla) (b) Red cotton bug (Dysdercus cingulatus) (c) Cotton grey weevil (Myllocerus undecimpustulatus) (d) Cotton Jassid (Amrasca devastans) 3. Wheat: Wheat stem borer (Sesamia inferens) with its systematics position, habits, nature of damage caused. Life cycle and control. 4. Paddy: (With their systematic position, habits and nature of damage caused. Life cycle and control of Loptocorisa acuta) (a) Gundhi bug (Leptocorisa acuta) (b) Rice grasshopper (Hieroglyphus banian) (c) Rice stem borer (Scirpophaga incertullus) (d) Rice Hispa (Diceladispa armigera) 5. Vegetables: (Their systematics position, habits and nature of damage caused. Life cycle and control of Aulacophora faveicollis) (a) Raphidopalpa faveicollis – The Red pumpkin beetle. (b) Dacus cucurbitas – The pumpkin fruit fly. (c) Tetranychus tecarius – The vegetable mite. (d) Epilachna – The Hadda beetle
2	6. Stored grains: (Their systematic position, habits and nature of damage caused. Life cycle and control of Trogoderma granarium) (a) Pulse beetle (Callosobruchus maculatus) (b) Rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae) (c) Wheat weevil (Trogoderma granarium) (d) Rust Red Flour beetles (Tribolium castaneum) (e) Lesser grain borer (Rhizopertha dominica) (f) Grain & Flour moth (Sitotroga cerealella) 7. Insect control: Biological control, its history, requirement and precautions and feasibility of biological agents for control. 8. Chemical control: History, Categories of pesticides, important pesticides from each category to pests against which they can be used, insect repellants and attractants. 9. Integrated pest management. 10. Important bird and rodent pests of agriculture & their management.