COURSE SYLLABUS

PESTS OF STORED PRODUCTS

1	Course Title:	PESTS OF STORED PRODUCTS
2	Course Code:	BTK3606-S
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	3
6	Semester:	6
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	4
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	1
9	Practice (hour/week) :	2
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	It is recommended to be preferred by the students who succeed at the lessons; Entomology, Insect Morphology, Insect Systematics, Control Methods of Plant Pests.
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. İSMAİL ALPER SUSURLUK
16	Course Lecturers:	-
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	susurluk@uludag.edu.tr (0 224) 294 15 79 Uludağ Üniversitesi, Ziraat Fakültesi, Bitki Koruma Bölümü
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	To describe insect species which are harmful on stored products and to learn control methods with these pests.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	The graduates of plant protection who take this course will have detailed information about the problems they face due to their mastery of animal pests in storages.

Learning Outcomes:

1	To learn names of stored products pests.;
2	To describe species of stored products pests.;
3	To learn life cycle and behavior of stored products pests.;
4	To learn damage type of pests on products and which pest species is detrimental on which stored products.;
5	To learn control methods against different stored products pests.;
6	To learn using of what kind of pesticides and pesticides application methods against stored products pests.;
7	To solve of problems about stored products pests which exists storage, factory, silo, bakery, food production places and house.;
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22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	General information about pests of stored products is explained. About species of Thysanura and Cockroaches are taught.	General information about pests of stored products is explained. About Lepisma saccharina, Thermobia domestica (Thysanura:Lepismatidae) and Acheta domestica (Orthoptera:Gryllidae) are given information. Shapes of these pests are drawn. Samples of insects are scanned via microscope. Samples of Blatta orientalis, Periplaneta Americana, Periplaneta australasiae (Dictyoptera: Blattidae) are scanned. Related slides are shown. Morphological and biological differences of between these species are explained.
2	Species of Psocoptera, Tenebriodes mauritanicus and skin insects arebtaught.	Samples of Blatella germanica and Supella longpalpa (Dictyoptera: Blatellidae) are scanned. Related slides are shown. Morphological and biological differences of between these species are explained.
3	Carpet beetles, Tenebriodes mauritanicus, Rhyzopetrha dominica and Lasioderma serricorne are taught.	Samples of Liposcelis divinatorius belong to order of Psocoptera, Sitophilus granarius and Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) are scanned. Related slides are shown. Morphological and biological differences of between these species are explained.
4	Bread beetle, Stegobium paniceum, Oryzaephilus surinamensis, Leomophloeus ferrugineus, Tenebrio molitor are taught.	Samples of Rhyzoperta dominica (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae), Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), Tribolium confusum, Tribolium castaneum, Gnathocerus cornutus ) are scanned. Related slides are shown. Morphological and biological features of these species are informed.
5	Cryptolestes ferrugineus, Tribolium castaneum, Horned beetle and Carpophilus spp. are taught.	Samples of Tenebroides mauritanicus (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae), Trogoderma granariu, Dermestes lardarius, Dermestes maculatus, Dermestes frischii, Anthrenus verbasci, Attagenus piceus (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) are scanned. Related slides are shown. Morphological and biological features of these species are informed.
6	Sitophilus granarius, Sitophilus oryzae and Sitophilu zeamais are taught.	Samples of Oryzaephilus surinamensis, Oryzaephilus Mercator, Laemophloeus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Cuculionidae) are scanned. Related slides are shown. Morphological and biological features of these species are informed.
7	Repeating courses and midterm exam	Samples of Stegobium paniceum, Lasioderma serricorne (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) and Carpophylus spp. (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) are scanned. Related slides are shown. Morphological and biological features of these species are informed.
8	Ephestia kuehniella, Ephestia elutella and Ephestia cautella are taught.	Slides of Ptinus fur, Ptinus tectus, Niptus hololeucus (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) are shown. Shapes of these pests are drawn. Morphological and biological features of these species are informed.
9	Plodia interpunctella, Pyralis farinalis and Paralipsa gularis are taught.	Samples of Ephestia kuehniella, Ephestia elutella, Ephestia cautella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) are scanned. Related slides are shown. Morphological and biological features of these species are informed.
10	Silotroga cerealella, Tinea granella, Tinea granella and Anthrenus verbasci are taught.	Samples of Ephestia figuliella, Plodia interpunctella, Pyralis farinalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) are scanned. Related slides are shown. Morphological and biological features of these species are informed.
11	Species of mites, mousses and rats are taught.	Samples of Paralipsa gularis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) and Sitotroga cerealla (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) are scanned. Related slides are shown. Morphological and biological features of these species are informed.
12	Ecology and biological agents of pests of stored products are taught.	Samples of Tinea granella, Tineola biselliella and Tinea pellionella (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) are scanned. Related slides are shown. Morphological and biological features of these species are informed.
13	Control methods of pests of stored products are taught.	Practice Exam
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23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Alternatives to pesticides in stored-product IPM (Edited by B. SUBRAMANYAM, D. W. HAGSTRUM) Depolanmış ürün Zararlıları (Prof. Dr Erol YILDIRIM, Prof. Dr. Hikmet ÖZBEK, Prof. Dr. İrfan ARSLAN) Zirai Mücadele Teknik Talimatları (Dr. Mete AYDEMİR)
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	60
Total	2	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	Assessment is made as 1 midterm and 1 final exam and evaluated with relative evaluation.
Information	40% of the midterm exam and 60% of the final exam are added and the success grade is calculated.

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	1	14
Practicals/Labs	14	2	28
Self Study and Preparation	5	10	50
Homeworks, Performances	0	0	0
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	1	10	10
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	15	15
Total WorkLoad			117
Total workload/ 30 hr			3,9
ECTS Credit of the Course			4

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

	PQ1	PQ2	PQ3	PQ5	PQ6	PQ7	PQ9	PQ10	PQ12
LO1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LO2	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
LO3	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
LO4	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
LO5	2	0	0	0	3	0	4	4	0
LO6	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
LO7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LO8	0	4	0	5	0	5	4	0	4
LO9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LO10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High