Field Entomology

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Intensive Summer II 2009

Course number: EEB 4252
Dates: July 20 - August 7
Day/time: MTWThF, 9am-12pm
Place: Storrs campus, Torrey Life Sciences Room 313
Credits: 3 (open to majors and non-majors)
Instructor: Suegene Noh
E-mail: suegene.noh@uconn.edu

Have fun collecting insects and earn credits at the same time!
This course is an introduction to insect collecting, identification, and ecology. We will learn about the local insect fauna through numerous field trips and practice specimen inventory methods in the lab. Lectures will cover all major orders of insects and focus on various aspects of their ecology, behavior, and evolution. Throughout the term, students will collect specimens for the University research and teaching collections, and for their personal reference collection.

No prior experience is necessary. There are no prerequisites. This course fulfills the 9 credit laboratory requirement for Bio Majors.

Use this link to download class notes, or click on the individual pdf icons below. If you use the link, you'll need files in the order listed below the link.
http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/fieldentomology/restricted/

Lecture Notes
July 20

Pdficon small.gifIntro_Entomology_2008.pdf
Pdficon small.gifIntro_Morphology_2008.pdf

July 21

Pdficon small.gifIntro_Development_2008.pdf

July 22

Pdficon small.gifEntognatha_Apterygota.pdf
Pdficon small.gifPaleoptera_Plecoptera.pdf

July 24

Pdficon small.gifOrthopteroidea.pdf

July 27

Pdficon small.gifHemipteriodea.pdf

July 28

Pdficon small.gifNeuropterida.pdf

July 29

Pdficon small.gifColeoptera.pdf

July 30

Pdficon small.gifHymenoptera.pdf

July 31

Pdficon small.gifAmphiesmenoptera.pdf

August 3

Pdficon small.gifDiptera_Mecoptera.pdf