Online Plant Protection Course
Understanding the life cycles of insects and weeds and learning how to identify them is important in the protection of plants from disease and insect and the spread of weed species.
Understanding the life cycles of insects and weeds and learning how to identify them is important in the protection of plants from disease and insect and the spread of weed species.
This course shows you how to identify diseases, insects and weeds, understand their life-cycles and select and use appropriate treatments. Control techniques are covered in detail using chemical and biological solutions along with safety procedures and practices.
The first step in knowing how to control a pest, disease or weed is to be able to identify it AND the plant which it is affecting accurately.
If you get the identification wrong, the method of control is likely to be inappropriate.
Identification in fact is the foundation of effective problem control.
This course provides a unique and systematic approach to plant protection, drawing on input from our horticultural experts in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It is unlike other plant protection courses in terms of its international approach. This allows you to benefit from a more diverse range of experts (and their diverse experiences); something that is not often found in other schools.
Course Structure
- Introduction - scientific names, terms, diagnosing problems.
- Control Techniques - natural & chemical.
- Chemicals - characteristics.
- Identifying Diseases - symptoms, fungi and viruses, and other pathogens.
- Disease Control - life cycle of fungi.
- Insect Classification and biology.
- Insect Control - how to control pests.
- Other Pests - nematodes, snails, millipedes.
- Weed Identification and chemical control.
- Non-chemical Weed Control.
Aims:
- Identify the broad category which a plant health problem belongs to.
- Explain a range of methods for controlling plant problems.
- Select appropriate chemical pesticides for different problems.
- Identify the symptoms of different plant diseases, including most common and some uncommon problems, in your locality.
- Develop procedures to control specific plant diseases.
- Identify different insects, including significant taxonomic orders, common pest species, and some less common pest species
- Determine appropriate methods to control different types of insects.
- Identify different non-insect pests found in the learner's locality.
- Determine appropriate control methods for different non-insect pests.
- Identify different non-insect pests found in the learner's locality.
- Determine appropriate control methods for different non-insect pests.
- Manage the control of different types of weed problems.
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