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| Oct 2 || '''MIDTERM 1''' || || Hemiptera II (Heteroptera)<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/Hemiptera%20-%20Heteroptera%20II.pdf}}Lab 11 || [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ7J-3RiyU4 Bed bugs]<br>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU_P57QTZfk Stink bugs] | | Oct 2 || '''MIDTERM 1''' || || Hemiptera II (Heteroptera)<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/Hemiptera%20-%20Heteroptera%20II.pdf}}Lab 11 || [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ7J-3RiyU4 Bed bugs]<br>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU_P57QTZfk Stink bugs] | ||
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− | | Oct 4 || Nervous system and sensory organs II || || Hemiptera III (Aucheno- and Sternorrhyncha, Fulgoroidea) || | + | | Oct 4 || Nervous system and sensory organs II<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/Nervous%20System%20I%20DW_2012.pdf}}Nervous System || || Hemiptera III (Aucheno- and Sternorrhyncha, Fulgoroidea)<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/lab%2012_hemiptera%20III_BZ_2012.pdf}}Lab 12 || C+G chapter 4<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/reading_metamorphosis_chapter8.pdf}}Insect Lives, Chapter 8 (Metamorphosis)<br> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k_oKK4Teco Regulatin' genes] |
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− | | Oct 9 || | + | | Oct 9 || Nervous System II<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/nervous%20system%20DW_2012.pdf}}Nervous System II || || Open lab<br>Bug jeopardy<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/bug%20jeopardy_1_2012.xls}}Bug Jeopardy file || G+C chapter 4<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/reading%20Judson%20chapter%206.PDF}}Judson chapter 6<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/reading%20Judson%20chapter%207%20first%20essays.PDF}}Judson chapter 7<br> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fx-YgcP8Gg Penis fencing] |
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− | | Oct 11 || | + | | Oct 11 || Nervous System continued<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/nervous%20system%20DW_2012.pdf}}Nervous System continued || '''Quiz 5''': Hemimetabola || Megaloptera, Neuroptera<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/lab%2014%20-%20megaloptera%20and%20neuroptera%20BZ_2012.pdf}}Lab 14|| G+C Chapter 12<br> {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/reading%20Eisner_Love%20Potions_2012.PDF}}Eisner, Love Potions<br>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYp_Xi4AtAQ Mantids mating] |
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− | | Oct 16 || | + | | Oct 16 || Behavior<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/Behavior%20I%20DW_2012.pdf}}Behavior || || Strepsiptera, Coleoptera I<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/lab15_coleoptera_1_BZ_2012.pdf}}Lab 15 || |
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− | | Oct 18 || Social insects<br> | + | | Oct 18 || Social insects<br> {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/Social%20Behavior%20DW_2012.pdf}}Social insects || || Coleoptera II<br>Special Lab Topic: Plant secondary compounds & insect herbivory<br>Greenhouse tour<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/Lab%2016_Coleoptera_II_BZ_2012.pdf}}Lab 16 || G+C Chapter 11<br>OPTIONAL Nowak et al. (2010) |
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− | | Oct 23 || Phytophagous insects || || Coleoptera III || | + | | Oct 23 || Phytophagous insects<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/Insects%20and%20plants%201%20DW_2012.pdf}}Insects and Plants 1 || || Coleoptera III<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/lab%2017_coleoptera%20III_BZ_2012.pdf}}Lab 17 ||{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/reading_For%20Love%20of%20Insects_2012.PDF}}For Love of Insects<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/reading_Insect%20Lives_2012.PDF}}Insect Lives |
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− | | Oct 25 || Insects and plants<br>Herbivory and plant defense || || Coleoptera | + | | Oct 25 || Insects and plants<br>Herbivory and plant defense<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/Insects%20and%20Plants%20II%20DW_2012.pdf}}Insects and Plants II || || Coleoptera review<br>Special Lab Topic<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/Halloween%20Insects%20DW_2012.pdf}}Halloween Insects|| |
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− | | Oct 30 || | + | | Oct 30 || Hurricane Sandy had other ideas. || || || |
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− | | Nov 1 || | + | | Nov 1 || || '''Quiz 6''': Megaloptera, Neuroptera, Strepsiptera, and Coleoptera || Trichoptera, Lepidoptera I&II<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/entomology/restricted/Lab19_Trichoptera%20and%20Lepidoptera%20BZ_2012.pdf}}Lab 19|| |
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− | | Nov 6 || | + | | Nov 6 || '''MIDTERM 2''' || || Guest Lecture - Forensic Entomology || |
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− | | Nov 8 || | + | | Nov 8 || TBA|| Collection Check #2 || Mecoptera, Siphonaptera, Diptera I, Diptera II || |
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| Nov 13 || Chemical ecology of insects (Scott Smedley) || || Diptera III || | | Nov 13 || Chemical ecology of insects (Scott Smedley) || || Diptera III || |
Revision as of 14:23, 5 November 2012
EEB 4250 - General Entomology
Fall 2012
Day/Time: Tuesday+Thursday 12:30-3:30
Place: Storrs campus, Torrey Life Sciences Room 313
Credits: 4
Instructor: David Wagner
- Life Sciences Rm 471
- 860-486-2139 and 860-942-1796 (cell)
- Office hours: 10 MWF and as available
- Life Sciences Rm 473
- 518-573-3091 (cell)
- Office hours: as available (email for appointment)
Textbook:
- Borror, DJ and RE White, 1970. Peterson Field Guide to Insects: America North of Mexico.
- Gullan, P. J. and P. S. Cranston. 2010. The Insects: An Outline of Entomology. Fourth Ed. Blackwell Science, Oxford, England.
Introduction
The lectures provide a broad introduction to insect diversity, phylogeny, structure and function, behavior, ecology, and conservation. The laboratory stresses sight identification and natural history of 120 common insect families. The collection requirement connects the lecture and laboratory by linking lecture topics, and especially insect behavior and ecology, to Connecticut’s extraordinary insect fauna.
Course Procedures and Policies
Academic Integrity:
Plagiarism and cheating are violations of the student conduct code, and may be punished by failure in the course or, in severe cases, dismissal from the University. For more information, see Appendix A of the Student Conduct Code.
Disabilities:
If you have a disability for which you may be requesting an accommodation, you should contact a course instructor and the Center for Students with Disabilities (Wilbur Cross Building, Room 201) within the first two weeks of the semester.
Syllabus and Course Materials
Course Flickr page: UConnGenEnt2012
- Please add your photos to an existing set for class trips, or create your own set
- Add your name or initials to the description of each photo you upload
- Feel free to comment using the main account or your own flickr account
Lab Facebook page: Lab Facebook page
Lab information
You may work on your collection in the lab outside of class time at these times:
- Mondays and Fridays after 10am
- Tuesdays and Thursdays before or after class
Collection Materials
Bonus Assignments
Date | Lecture | Quiz | Lab | Readings |
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August 28 | Course overview | Wagner Lab visit Collections Facility Intro to collections |
G+C Chapter 1 B+W pgs 4-29 | |
August 30 | Importance of insects Introduction to insect diversity Introduction |
Insect walk Collecting methods Pinning Lab 2 |
G+C Chapter 2 The Joy of Formication | |
Sept 4 | Insect body I: external anatomy External anatomy I |
Quiz 1: Insect Collecting | Overview of Insect Orders Pinning demonstration Lab 3 |
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Sept 6 | Insect body II: external anatomy External anatomy II |
External Grasshopper Anatomy Lab 4 |
G+C Chapter 3 | |
Sept 7-9 | Great Mountain Forest Trip | |||
Sept 11 | Insect body III: external anatomy External anatomy III |
Quiz 2: Insect Orders | Internal anatomy dissection Lab 5 |
Virtual Cockroach Ant losing wings |
Sept 13 | Internal anatomy I Internal anatomy I |
Aquatic insects Aquatic field trip Lab 6 |
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Sept 18 | Internal anatomy II Geologic history I Anatomy and Geologic History |
Quiz 3: Insect Anatomy | Non-insect arthropods Early hexapods: Entognatha, Apterygota, Ephemeroptera, Odonata Lab 7 |
G+C Chapter 7 G+C Chapter 6 |
Sept 20 | Geologic history II Higher classification of insects Geologic history II Insect phylogeny |
Blattodea, Mantodea, Phasmatodea, Orthoptera Walk to W lot Lab 8 |
G+C Chapter 8 (section 8.2, the rest is optional) | |
Sept 25 | Development and life histories Development and life histories |
Quiz 4: Primitive insect orders+ Aquatic insects |
Dermaptera, Plecoptera, Embioptera, Pscoptera Lab 9 |
Reading part 1 Reading part 2 Maternal earwig Bark lice |
Sept 27 | Growth and development Growth and development |
Collection check #1 | Phthiraptera, Thysanoptera, Hemiptera (aquatic) Lab 10 |
Dragonfly Painted lady ZomBEE |
Oct 2 | MIDTERM 1 | Hemiptera II (Heteroptera) Lab 11 |
Bed bugs Stink bugs | |
Oct 4 | Nervous system and sensory organs II Nervous System |
Hemiptera III (Aucheno- and Sternorrhyncha, Fulgoroidea) Lab 12 |
C+G chapter 4 Insect Lives, Chapter 8 (Metamorphosis) Regulatin' genes | |
Oct 9 | Nervous System II Nervous System II |
Open lab Bug jeopardy Bug Jeopardy file |
G+C chapter 4 Judson chapter 6 Judson chapter 7 Penis fencing | |
Oct 11 | Nervous System continued Nervous System continued |
Quiz 5: Hemimetabola | Megaloptera, Neuroptera Lab 14 |
G+C Chapter 12 Eisner, Love Potions Mantids mating |
Oct 16 | Behavior Behavior |
Strepsiptera, Coleoptera I Lab 15 |
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Oct 18 | Social insects Social insects |
Coleoptera II Special Lab Topic: Plant secondary compounds & insect herbivory Greenhouse tour Lab 16 |
G+C Chapter 11 OPTIONAL Nowak et al. (2010) | |
Oct 23 | Phytophagous insects Insects and Plants 1 |
Coleoptera III Lab 17 |
For Love of Insects Insect Lives | |
Oct 25 | Insects and plants Herbivory and plant defense Insects and Plants II |
Coleoptera review Special Lab Topic Halloween Insects |
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Oct 30 | Hurricane Sandy had other ideas. | |||
Nov 1 | Quiz 6: Megaloptera, Neuroptera, Strepsiptera, and Coleoptera | Trichoptera, Lepidoptera I&II Lab 19 |
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Nov 6 | MIDTERM 2 | Guest Lecture - Forensic Entomology | ||
Nov 8 | TBA | Collection Check #2 | Mecoptera, Siphonaptera, Diptera I, Diptera II | |
Nov 13 | Chemical ecology of insects (Scott Smedley) | Diptera III | ||
Nov 15 | Medical & veterinary entomology | Open lab | ||
Nov 27 | Medical & veterinary entomology | Quiz 7: Mecopteroidea | Hymenoptera I | |
Nov 29 | Insect ecology | Hymenoptera II | ||
Dec 4 | Pest management and biological control | Open lab | ||
Dec 6 | Insect conservation | LAB PRACTICUM | Open lab | |
TBA | FINAL EXAM |