Syllabus: BIOLOGY 1224 --
Entomology
Dr. James K. Adams -- 148 Sequoya Hall
Office Hours: 8:40 - 10:40 a.m. TW; 3:00 -
Office: (706) 272-4427 Home: (706) 602-6993 4:00 p.m.
MW (intramurals may interfere);
E-mail:
jadams@daltonstate.edu 1:30
- 4:00 p.m. Th; 9:30 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Faculty website: www.daltonstate.edu/faculty-staff/jadams/
some Fridays or by appointment
Textbooks: Introduction to Insect Biology and Diversity, 2nd Edition, by
Daly, Doyen and Purcell
and A Field Guide to
the Insects, by Borror and White
Quizzes may be in lab or lecture; this will be announced.
Week
Topics
Chapter, Pages Scheduled Lab Exercise
Aug. 13 - 16
Introduction to Course
1 (3 - 19)
Collecting Requirements/
What is an insect/arthropod?
15 (303 - 307) General
Suggestions
Why should we study insects?
9 (Overview)
Killing Jars/Net use
Aug. 20 - 23 General
Biological Concepts
Pinning/Spreading
External
Anatomy of Insects 2 (Overview)
Making Labels
Integument/Exoskeleton 3
(Overview; 51 - 56)
Aug. 27 - 31 QUIZ 1 External Anatomy
FIELD TRIP (weather
Molting/Metamorphosis
3 (56 - 58); 4 (65 - 72)
permitting)
Hexapods: more than one evolutionary origin?
Overview of Insect Orders 15 (312 - 318)
***Labor Day Holiday, Monday, Sept.
3, 2012***
Sept. 4 - 6 The Parainsecta
17
(no lab)
The Entognatha
18 QUIZ
2
(Molting/Metamorphosis)
The Apterygota
19
Flight/Flight Mechanisms 5
(117 - 119); 15 (308 - 312)
The Ephemeroptera
20
The Odonata
21
Sept. 10 - 13
Orthopteroid Orders 22
- 30
Using Dichotomous Keys
QUIZ 3 ("Primitive" Orders) Work
on Collection
Sept. 17 - 20
***EXAM 1, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012*** FIELD TRIP (weather
Hemipteroid Orders
31 - 34
permitting)
Sept. 24 - 27
Finish Hemipteroid Orders First 25 Insects "Due"
Neuropteroid Orders
35 - 38, 40
Dirt hexapods
lab
FOR
LAB --
(Bring a container of soil; best if from moist [but NOT wet] location)
LOOSE soil from under leaf litter/rotting logs is often very productive
Oct. 1 - 4 Coleoptera 39 FIELD TRIP (weather
QUIZ 4 (Hemipteroid/Neuropteroid Orders)
permitting)
***FALL BREAK, Monday, Oct. 8 -Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012***
Oct. 10 -11 Mecopteroid Orders
41 - 43, 45
(no lab)
Oct. 15 - 18 Lepidoptera
44
Next 25 insects "Due"
Begin Hymenoptera
46
Keying Test
Quiz
5 (Mecopteroid Orders)
Work on Collection
Oct. 22 - 25
Finish Hymenoptera
46
Work on Collection
***EXAM
2, Chaps. 31 - 46, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012***
Oct. 29 - Nov. 1 Internal Anatomy: Digestive System 5
(Overview, 93 - 99)
Respiratory System 5
(Overview, 100 - 107) Field Trip or
Circulatory System 5 (Overview, 107 -
110) work on collection
Excretory System 5
(Overview, 110 - 112)
Reproductive System 4 (Overview, 74 - 80)
Sense Organs: Eyes, Ears,
Antennae
6 (Overview, 130 - 138)
Nov. 5 - 8
Plant-Insect Interactions
10 QUIZ 6
(Internal Anatomy)
Insect-insect interactions
11 Work on collection
Vertebrate-insect interactions 12
Last 25 insects "due"
Defenses Against Predation 12 (248 - 255+)
Identification Test
Human Impact
(in lab)
Nov. 12 - 15
Control
of Insect populations 11 & 12 (portions),
Natural controls & 13 (Overview)
Pest Management 14 (281 - 291,
294 - 296)
***EXAM
3, Internal Anatomy & Interactions, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012***
Week of Nov. 19 Behavior: Communication 6
(139 - 144) Last
chance to ask questions,
Chemical/Visual/Auditory (for reproduction, etc.)
get info/specimens
***Thanksgiving Holiday, November 21 - 23, 2012***
Nov. 26 - 29 Social
Behavior in Insects 6
(145 - 150), 7 (Overview)
COLLECTION DUE
Thermoregulation/Voltinism 5 (119 - 122) QUIZ
7 (Communication)
Dec. 3 Seasonality and Diapause
Visit James Adams' Collection
Catch up and Review for Final
(Calhoun)?
FINAL:
Monday, December 10, 2012, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Withdrawal date is Tuesday, October 23, 2012.