DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY

FACULTY OF BASIC AND APPLIED SCIENCES

THE UNIVERSITY OF HARIPUR
Phone No: 0995-615138 URL: www.uoh.edu.pk

Teacher’s Name: Dr. Muhammad Nasir

Course offered: Stored Product Pests and their Management (6th Semester)

Credit Hours: 3 (2+1)

Duration of the course:16 Weeks approximately
Week 1:
 Introduction of stored Product Pest control
 Kinds of stored grain insects, their distribution, habitat, Life cycle and nature of
damage.
 Identification, biology and management of stored product pests
 Types of damage caused by stored grain pests
Week: 2
 Principles and types of storages
 Ideal conditions for the development of pests
 Factors affecting grain and other products in storages
 Management of stored product insect pests
Week: 3
 Stored product losses and their prevention
 Preventive measures before binning
 Grain bin clean-up
 Preventive measures during binning
 Use of grain protectants
Week: 4
 List of grain protectants approved for stored grains.
 Preventive measures after binning (Top-dressing).
 Control measures after binning.
Week: 5
 Cleaning & disinfecting the storage system.
 Treating infecting grains.
 Sealing the system (Low oxygen system)
Week : 6
 Management strategies for storage pests
 Surface treatment.
 Seed treatment.
Week: 7
 Species and damage of rats
 Rat treatment / management
Week: 8
 Fungi nature of damage and control
 Method of storage hygiene
Week: 9
 Mid Term Examination
Week : 10
 Steps in the ideal pest control procedure of stored commodities pests
 Common methods of pest control
Week: 11
 Criteria for selecting a treatment strategy.
 Priorities management options
 Cultural control advantages & disadvantages
 Sanitation
 Plant resistance
Week: 12
 Methods of plant resistance
 Conditions that support insect growth.
 Role of monitoring through pheromone traps before pest management
Week: 13
 Pictorial key to beetle pests of stored grains commonly found.
 Biological control of stored grains (advantages & disadvantages)
 Chemical control of stored grains pests (advantages & disadvantages)
Week: 14
 Criteria of deciding the use of pesticides
 Use of liquid pesticides in the stored commodities
Week: 15
 Fumigation
 Use of improved storage receptacles
 Fumigants approved for stored grains disinfection.
 Continued stored grain pest management.
 Advantages & disadvantages of fumigants
 Characteristics of fumigants
 Factors that affect fumigation
 Effective fumigation for insect mitigation
 Alternatives to fumigation
 Types of fumigation
 Good fumigation practices
Week: 16
 Time to decide the fumigation operation
 Types of structures to be fumigated
 New fumigation standards
 Fumigant properties & recommended dosages
 IPM & decision making model for fumigation of stored commodities
 Fumigation of structures
 Safety & security during fumigation
 Proper disposal of fumigants
Week: 17 (Final course work or revision week)
Week: 18
Terminal Examination

LIST OF PRACTICALS:
 Classification of stored product pests
 Sanitation
 Types of structures
 List of grain protectants approved for stored grains
 Use of High temperature for the control of stored product pests
  Use of cold as a control of stored product pests
 Conditions which are responsible for the development of insects
 Chemical control
 Use of insecticides for the control of stored product insects
 Role of Pheromone traps in monitoring of pests
 IPM model for stored product pest management
 Fumigation
 Insecticide forumlations
 Safe Disposal of chemicals
 Pest-host interactions in IPM of stored product pests management
 Vedeos on chemical control of stored product pests
 Vedeos on fumigation of stored product pests
 Visit to research stations and warehouses

RECOMMENDED SOURCES FOR REFERENCE:

1. Ashfaq, M. Saleem, M. A. and Ahmad, F. 2009. Zari Agnas ki Mahfooz Zakhira Kari
(in Urdu). Pak Book Empire, Lahore.
2. Hill, D.S. 2002. Pests of Stored Food Stuff and their Control. Kluwer.
3. Hill, D.S. 2002. Pests of Stored Food Stuffs and Their Control, Springer Publisher.
4. Rees, D. 2009. Insects of Stored Products. Manson Publishing Company.
5. Zaklandvoi, G. A. and Ratanova. V. F. 1987. Stored Grain Pests and their control.
Oxonian Press Pvt. Ltd., London.