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Economic Icarus

Course Description: Theoretical: - Introduction to acarological pests affecting vegetables, fruits, and field crops. - Mites of stored products and homes. - Ticks. - Types of ticks. - Diseases transmitted by ticks. - Mites causing scabies. - Predatory mites. - Use of predatory mites in biological control. - Methods for breeding and releasing predatory mites. Practical: - Introduction to acarological pests. - Identification of different forms of acarological pests. - Methods for separating mites of stored products and homes. - Methods for separating and classifying ticks. - Identification of different forms of hard and soft ticks. - Methods for breeding and releasing predatory mites.
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: PAP 363
Objectives of the course :
  • Introducing students to the economic importance of harmful mites.
  • Introducing students to stored product mites and ticks. .
  • Provide students with the knowledge to use predatory mites for biological control.
Course outputs :
  • Predators and pests that are acaricide-tolerant and their role in plant production and protection sciences.
  • It reviews the different methods for raising and releasing predatory mites.
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  • Last updated: 2026-06-21

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