Students enrolled in this course will be introduced to various strategies for managing pests and diseases, encompassing traditional practices alongside more advanced and environmentally friendly alternatives.
Including:
- What causes damage to crops in the field, how to identify an offending factor, the difference between extinct pest control and integrated pest control, harmful vs. beneficial insects
- Butterflies – identification, characteristics of injury, methods of pest control.
- Aphids-identification, characteristics of injury, methods of pest control.
- Tripps -- Identification, characteristics of injury, methods of pest control.
- Tour of the Yair experimental station, a tour of vegetable pest control (R&D), tour of the Ein Yahav bumblebee "factory"
- Integrated pesticides: the development of pesticide resistance and solutions
- Introduction to plant diseases.
- Soil and leaf diseases.
- Virus and bacterial diseases.
- Basics of spraying.
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- Teacher: Noah Shahak