GENERAL ENTOMOLOGY 207
FALL SEMESTER - 2013
SYLLABUS
“Welcome to Entomology 207”
LABORATORY INSTRUCTORS
Serena Gross
Office: Smith 150
Phone: 4-5963
sdgross@purdue.edu
Hossan Abdel
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SECTION DAYS-TIMES
Thursday 1:30 - 3:20
Thursday 3:30 - 5:20
Friday 9:30 - 11:20
Friday 11:30 - 1:20
Chris Oseto
Office: Smith 127A
Phone: 4-4548
osetoc@purdue.edu
Faith Weeks
Office: Smith 122
Phone: 6-3772
fweeks@purdue.edu
REQUIRED MANUAL
General Entomology Investigations. 2010. 2nd ed. C. Y. Oseto and E. L. Shebish. Kendall
Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, IA Note: You may order the manual directly from
kendall-Hunt Company at http://www.kendallhunt.com/store-product.aspx?id=25451
Week of Monday
Assignment
August 19
Laboratory 1 - Microscope and Terminology
Laboratory 2- Insects in Food
August 26
Laboratory 3 - Insects and Selected Relatives
September 2
Laboratory 4 - Exoskeleton and Associated Structures
Laboratory 5 - External Anatomy: Head
September 9
Laboratory 6 - External Anatomy: Mouthparts
September 16
Lab Practical 1 (Labs 1-5)
September 23
Laboratory 7 - External Anatomy: Thorax
Laboratory 8 - External Anatomy: Abdomen
September 30
Laboratory 9 - Internal Anatomy: Alimentary Tract
Quiz 1: Labs 1 and 2
Quiz 2: Lab 3
Quiz 3: Labs 4 and 5
Quiz 4: Lab 6
Quiz 5: Labs 7 and 8
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October 7 - 8
October Break
October 7
Laboratory Practical 2 (Labs 6-8)
October 14
Laboratory 9 - (Continued) Internal Anatomy: Nervous, Reproductive, Circulatory systems
Quiz 6: Lab 9 Alimentary Tract only
October 21
Laboratory Practical 3 (Lab. 9)
October 28
Laboratory 10 - Metamorphosis
Orders: Collembola, Thysanura, Ephemeroptera
Odonata
November 4
Laboratories 11-17
Orthoptera, Dermaptera, Isoptera, Mallophaga,
Anoplura, Thysanoptera, Homoptera, Hemiptera
Quiz 7: Metamorphosis and Collembola to Odonata
November 11
Laboratories 18-22
Orders: Coleoptera, Neuroptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera,
Siphonaptera, Hymenoptera
Quiz 8: Orthoptera to Hemiptera
November 18
Laboratories 23-28.
QUIZ BOWL
November 27 - 30
Thanksgiving Holiday
December 2
Laboratory Practical 4
(Dead week)
All orders and metamorphoses
COURSE OBJECTIVES
General Entomology 207 provides students with a practical knowledge of insects
and related arthropods. Each laboratory exercise builds on the previous exercise
culminating in the identification of insect orders. After successfully completing the
laboratory, you will be able to identify by sight, the major orders of insects. In addition,
you will have the ability to extend your knowledge of insects based on the information
gleaned from these exercises. For those of you concurrently enrolled in ENTM 206,
these laboratory exercises will strengthen your understanding of the lecture topics.
LABORATORY EXERCISES
At the end of each laboratory exercise, you will remove the completed lab exercise(s)
from the manual, write your name on each exercise, staple all pages, and place the
exercise(s) in the box provided. You will receive 5 points for each completed exercise.
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All lab exercises must be submitted at the end of each laboratory, and no late exercise
will be graded. You may pick up your corrected lab exercise in the resource room,
Smith 120, in the colored boxes arranged alphabetically by last name. These exercises
will be available on the Monday following the lab exercise.
LABORATORY PRACTICALS
There will be four laboratory practicals during the semester; each worth 100 points.
Practicals will test your knowledge of terminology, external and internal structures,
names of organisms, and types of metamorphoses. Laboratory practicals are not
cumulative. The final practical will test your ability to recognize the major orders of
GRADE ASSIGNMENT
Points will be assigned as follows: Letter grades will be distributed as follows:
Practical 1
Practical 2
Practical 3
Practical 4
Quizzes
Lab Exercises
100 100 100 100 60
140
points
points
points
points
points
points
TOTAL
600 points
A
B
C
D
F
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600 to 540
539 to 480
479 to 420
419 to 360
359 to 0
ATTENDANCE
Attendance is not required but you must come to take quizzes and lab practicasl,
and experience has shown that those who do not attend the laboratory sessions
either do poorly or fail.
POLICY ON MAKE-UP EXAMINATIONS
Only excused absences can be made-up. These absences are limited to illness as
verified by a physician or death in the immediate family. All approved missed practicals
must be taken within one week.
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
Purdue University prohibits cheating, plagiarism, or knowingly providing false information
to the University. These acts of cheating or deceit in any form (such as using illegal
cribs, copying during examinations, taking examinations for someone else) will not be
tolerated and will be dealt with appropriately.
Note: Because unforeseen circumstances may occur during the semester, the instructor reserves the
right to make appropriate changes to the syllabus.
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