PREV

• Introduction, Learning outcomes and course outlines/schedule
• Introduction to Insects as Pests of Stored Products
• Important Insect Pests of stored food
• Feeding strategies of stored grain insect pests
• Identifying important families of beetles of stored products
• Lesser Grain borer
• Rice weevil
• Dhora or seed beetle
• Khapra or Dermestid beetle
• Red flour beetle
• Silvanid or saw toothed grain beetle
• Flat grain beetle
• Dried fruit beetle
• Anobiid beetle
• Anthribid beetle
• Hide beetle
• Mealworms
• Carpet beetle
• Long headed flour beetle
• Trogossitid beetle
• Angoumois grain moth
• Pyralid moth
• Tineid Moth
• Psocids in grain storage
• Stored grain mites
• Impact of rodents in stored grain
• Sampling and monitoring of stored grain insects
• Role of storage conditions or types in reducing post harvest losses
• FACTORS AFFECTING GRAIN STORAGE
• Physical factors for the multiplication of stored grain insects
• Principles to Control Insect Pests of Stored Food
• Dealing with Store Houses