Unit ENTOMOLOGY
- Course
- Natural and environmental sciences and technologies
- Study-unit Code
- GP004108
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Manuela Rebora
- Teachers
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- Manuela Rebora
- Hours
- 42 ore - Manuela Rebora
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- BIO/05
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The class Insecta and its extraodinary evolutionary success, insect evolution, internal and external anatomy, insect sensory biology, insect and soil, aquatic insects, insects and plants, the insect society, relationships between insects and humans: pests (agricultural entomology and veterinary entomology), insect control, insects commercially important for humans, forensic entomology, insects and biomimetics.
- Reference texts
- Lineamenti di Entomologia P.J. Gullan e P.S. Cranston Ed. Zanichelli
- Educational objectives
- To understand the extraordinary insect evolutionary success, to know the insect biology, to understand the importance of the relationship insects-humans, to be able to recognize insects on the basis of their morphology
- Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of Animal Biology
- Teaching methods
- Oral lessons and practice
- Other information
- Frequency is optional but strongly adviced
- Learning verification modality
- oral exam (two-three questions, half an hour) at the end of the course to verify the acquisition of learning autcomes
- Extended program
- The class Insecta and its extraodinary evolutionary success, insect evolution, internal and external anatomy, insect sensory biology, insect and soil, aquatic insects, insects and plants, the insect society, relationships between insects and humans: pests (agricultural entomology and veterinary entomology), insect control, insects commercially important for humans, forensic entomology, insects and biomimetics.