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Types of
TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
Damage
Harmful
ENTOMOLOGY: A branch of science that deals
*Insects Chewing
with the study of insects.
PLANT DISEASE: An abnormal plant condition
caused by a pathogen, improper environmental
Cate on
condition or a nutritional deficiency.
Type of leaves
PLANT PATHOLOGIST: A person who studies
plant diseases and works to diagnose and
rpilla
control them.
Damage
HARMFUL EFFECTS AND ECONOMIC
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LOSSES OF INSECTS
A- Damage and destroy agricultural crops.
1- Reduce crop yield Chewing
2- Reduce quality of the crop.
3- Cost of control practices.
B- Aid in the spread of diseases in man, *Aphids Transmitting
on
animals, and plants.
Mites diseases
leaves,
C- Annoy man and animals.
D- Destroy homes, timber resources, and other Beetl
goods.
Leafhopp Transmitting
boring,fe
BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF INSECTS
• 1- POLLINATION ACTIVITIES make possible es diseases
the increase yields of many agricultural crops.
• 2- PROVIDE us with useful PRODUCTS such ers ed on
as silk, honey, beeswax, shellac, and permanent
Transmitting
INSECTS
Termites fruit
inks and dyes.
• 3- SERVE as FOOD for fish, birds, and other
*Scale diseases
wildlife.
• 4- PERFORM valuable services as
SCAVENGERS.
Three distinctChewing
Gras Feed on
• 5- HELP TO CONTROL harmful animals
(especially other insect pests) and plants. insects
• 6- Have MEDICINAL VALUE.
parts– on
shop structural
LIST OF BENEFICIAL AND HARMFUL
INSECTS Fruit flies
Beneficial Insects Useful
Head,Thorax,Abd leaves,st
timber
Fliespers em
Product,Service
LIST OF
Silkworm moth- Silk
Honey bees- Honey,beeswax,pollination
omen
House
Shellac and
Scale and gall insects Pigments and dye
* Twig fruit
Insect Classification By Feeding Habits
BENEFICIAL Used in
Fig wasp- Pollinate figs • CHEWING : Insects with chewing mouthparts
Wasps- Parasites, predators
flies
Three pairs of potato
bore
have toothed jaws that bite and tear the food.
Beetles- Predators, natural control of weeds
Lacewings- Predators
Examples: grasshopper,
scientific
armyworm,
HARMFUL for
* Beetles- Chewing on leaves, boring,feed on fruit aphid, fly,greenbug
* Grasshoppers- Chewing on leaves,stem and fruit
Parasites,
* Twig bores- Boring into leaves stem and fruit
Fleas leaves
jumping,running,
* Leaf miners- Sucking plant juices
predators
INSECTS *digging,attacking,
Leaf stem Spread
Benefici Useful mine
swimming
and
disease fruit
al Product,Se rs Sucking
Bite
One pair of plant
humans,spre
Insects rvice
antennaejuices ad disease
Silkwor Silk (feelers) Bite humans
m Honey,bee
moth
Eyes are usually and animals
swax,pol
compound, but