1	Course Title:	PESTS OF HORTICULTURE PLANTS
2	Course Code:	BTK4622-Z
3	Type of Course:	Compulsory
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	4
6	Semester:	8
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	3
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	2
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	None
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. ORKUN BARIŞ KOVANCI
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	baris@uludag.edu.tr Tel: (90) 224-294-15-77 Adres: Uludağ Üniv., Ziraat Fak. Bitki Koruma Bölümü Görükle kampüsü, Bursa 16059 Türkiye
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	The objective of this course is to enable students to recognize harmful arthropods associated with horticultural plantings and to teach them how to manage horticultural pests.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

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Learning Outcomes:

1 Students will be able; to recognize harmful arthropods associated with horticultural plantings; 2 To explain the biology and ecology of arthropods associated with horticultural crops; 3 To characterize types of plant injury and associate it with the arthropod pest that is responsible; 4 To describe management tactics that are used to minimize injury by arthropod pests; 5 To know insecticides, acaricides, nematicides, biological control agents, biotechnological methods and tools which are used against horticultural plants pests; 6 To know choose the appropriate control method to a pest or pest complex; 7 To design the control programmes against the important pests of horticultural plant; 8 To know Integrated Pest Management strategies and to gain skill apply to the pest;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Introduction to horticultural pests	Display of arthropod pests in the laboratory
2	Spider mites	Spider mites
3	Nematodes	Nematodes
4	Annelida and Crustacea	Annelida and Crustacea
5	General insect pests	Aphids
6	Vegetable pests	Whiteflies
7	Greenhouse pests	Bark beetles
8	Pests of ornamental trees and shrubs	Buprestids and Elaterids
9	Soil pests	Long-horned beetles
10	Pests of turfgrasses	Lepidopteran pests
11	Pests of pome fruits	Pear lacebug and psyllid
12	Pests of pome fruits	Lepidopteran pests
13	Pests of stone fruits	Scale insects
14	Pests of stone fruits

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Uygun, N., 1998. Bahçe Bitkileri Zararlıları, Çukurova Üniversitesi, Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları Ders Kitabı No: C – 26, 3.Baskı, Adana, 1998, 54 s. Gupta, H. C. L., O. P. Ameta, and V. K. Chechani, 2005. Management of insect pests of horticultural crops. Agrotech Pub. Academy. Aluja, A., Leskey, T. C., and Vincent, C., 2009. Biorational Tree-Fruit Management. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, 295 pp., ISBN 978-1-84593-484-2.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	30
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	1	10
Final Exam	1	60
Total	3	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
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ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	2	28
Practicals/Labs	14	2	28
Self Study and Preparation	4	2	8
Homeworks, Performances	1	5	5
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	1	4	4
Midtermexams	1	7	7
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	10	10
Total WorkLoad			90
Total workload/ 30 hr			3
ECTS Credit of the Course			3

26	CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS
PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 PQ11 PQ12 LO1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO4 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO5 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO6 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 LO7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 LO8 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High