ENTOMOLOGY DEPARTMENT
The Department offers graduate programmes leading to MS and PhD degree.
The Entomology Department has a major research thrust on (i) ecological and biological studies of insect pests and their natural enemies, their behavior and management, (ii) integrated pest management; (iii) biological studies of pollinators and their utilization in vegetable seeds and oil seed production; (iv) environmental toxicology of pesticides and (v) collection, identification and preservation of insect pests and their natural enemies.
Faculty: Dr. Md. Zinnatul Alam, Professor Dr. Md. Mahbubar Rahman, Professor; Dr. Md. Ramiz Uddin Miah, Professor; Md. Mesbah Uddin, Associate Professor (Study leave), Md. Ahsanul Haque, Associate Professor; Md. Mamunur Rahman, Assistant Professor, Md. Habibur Rahman, Assistant Professor, and Md. Shamim Hossain, Lecturer.
Adjunct Faculty: Dr. Kamal Humayun, Director, TCRC, BARI, Dr. Md. Nurul Islam, Research Associate, University of Toronto, Faculty of Forestry, Canada, Dr. Kazuo Ogata, Professor, Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kyushu University, Japan, Dr. Sayed Nurul Alam, CSO, Entomology Division, BARI, Dr. Md. Abdul Lafif, Professor, Department of Entomology, Sher-e-Bangla Grricultural Univerisity (SAU), Dr. Mohibul Hasan, PSO, Entomology Division, BRRI, and Dr. Razzab Ali, Professor, Department of Entomology, SAU, and Dr. Mohibal Hassan PSO, Entomology Division, BRRI.
Research supervisor: Dr. Md. Nurul Islam, Research Associate, University of Toronto, Faculty of Forestry, Canada, Dr. Kazuo Ogata, Professor, Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kyushu University, Japan, Dr. Mohibul Hasan, PSO, Entomology Division, BRRI, Dr. Mohammad Ali, Professor, SAU, Dr. Sayed Nurul Alam, CSO, Entomology Division, BARI, Mr. Md. Shahadet Hossain, SSO, Entomology, HRC, BARI, Dr. Md. Abdul Latif, Professor, ENT, SAU and Dr. Razzab Ali, Professor, Department of Entomology, SAU.
COURSES
ENT 501 Insect Morphology and Morphometrics (3 cr): Lectures: Body form, segmentation, integument; body wall processes; head, thorax, abdomen and its appendages; alimentary, respiratory, circulatory system; haemolymph; nervous system; sense organs; reproductive system and muscles.
Laboratory: Preliminary study of structure of an insect: head, thorax and abdomen and their appendages and modifications.
ENT 502 Insect Ecology and Behavior (3 cr): Introduction to ecology, ecological problems, energetic, organism and environment, insect population estimation, interaction between organisms, population, plant and herbivore, insect population distribution, abundance and regulation, communities and succession.
ENT 516 Principles of Insect Control (3 cr): Integrated control concept; insect survey, insect identification and classification; analysis of insect problem; general tactics of pest control; economic principle of pest management.
ENT 530 Seed Entomology (3 cr): Insect and seed technology, beneficial impact of insect, insect pollination, pollinating insects floral adaptation for insect pollination, pollination of crop plants, bees and other insects, harmful impact of insects, stored grain pests, detection methods for storage insect pests, rodent in storage and their control, insecticide used against stored product pest.
ENT 531 Insect Taxonomy (3 cr): Growth and development of entomology; systematic; taxonomy; classification; nomenclature; taxonomic character and classification; species concept; evolution.
Laboratory: Collection, identification and preservation of important families including Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Hemiptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera, Odonata, Ephemeroptera, Neuroptera, Orthoptera.
ENT 546 Insecticide Toxicology (3 cr.):
Lectures: Background review; bio-organic chemistry; physiology of nerve impulse transmission; concepts of insecticide toxicology; uptake and distribution of insecticides; determination of toxicity; organopho-sphorus, carbonate, chlorinated hydrocarbon and miscellaneous insecticides; joint action of biologically active chemicals; formulation.
Laboratory: biological evaluation of insecticides; bioassay; probit analysis and residue determination.
ENT 547 Biological Control (3 cr): Fostering pest through misuse of chemi- cals; pests and their natural enemies; biological control ecology; introduced biological control agents; the first foreign explorers; modern foreign exploration and success; techniques to evaluate effectiveness of natural enemies; maximizing biological control through research; manipulation of hosts and parasitoids through periodic release; use of pathogen in pest control; biological control of weeds.
ENT 561 Insect Physiology (3 cr): Embryonic development, sex determination in insects; integument; growth and differentiation; circulatory, respiratory and nervous system; sense organs; muscular, digestive, excretory, exocrine and endocrine systems.
Laboratory: studies in digestion, food transport; tracheal system analysis; circulatory system, nervous system, chemoreception of housefly; molting and pupation hormone in housefly larvae; reproductive system.
ENT 580 Integrated Pest Management (3 cr): Introduction, ecological concept; economics; quantitative basis of pest management; plant resistance; predators, parasitoids, insecticides and pathogen in pest management; modeling in pest man- agement; pest management and the future. Training need for IPM; role of extension entomology in IPM.
ENT 596 Reading and Conference (Credit to be arranged but not more than 3 cr.): Special study assigned by the Major Professor on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee and/ or interest of the student.
ENT 597 Special Problems (Credit to be arranged but not more than 3 cr.): Investigation of special problems in ento- mology not related to a dissertation prob- lem. The investigation may consist of original research and/ or literature survey.
ENT 598 Seminar (1 cr): Discussion on special topics in the field of entomology.
ENT 599 Thesis Research (Credit to be arranged but not less than 12 cr): Original Thesis Research.
ENT 632 Environmental Toxicology of Pesticides (3 cr): Introduction, review of environment and pesticides in use, movement of pesticides and their residues in the environment, transformation and persistence of pesticides in the environment, effects of pesticides on arthropods, fishes, and wildlife, pesticidal hazards to human and domestic animals, analysis of pesticide residues in environmental samples.
ENT 649 Insect and Host Plant Resistance (3 cr): Types of insect resistance and factors affecting expression of mechanisms of resistance, genetics of resistance to insects, breeding insect resistant varieties, plant resistance and insect pest management.
Laboratory: studies on resistance development, effects on beneficial insects, cholinesterase level of pesticides in human blood, estimation of pesticide residues in environmental samples.
ENT 696 Reading and Conference (Credit to be arranged but not more than 3 cr): Special study assigned by the Major Professor on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee and/or interest of the student.
ENT 697 Special Problems (Credit to be arranged but not more than 3 cr): Investigation of special problems in entomology not related to a dissertation problem. The investigation may consist of original research and/or literature survey.
ENT 698 Seminar (2 cr, not more then 1 cr. per term): Discussion on assigned topics in the field of entomology.
ENT 699 Dissertation Research (Credit to be arranged but not less than 30 cr): Original dissertation research.
Note: Students having CGPA below 3.00 will not be allowed to enroll ENT 596, ENT 597, ENT 696 or ENT 697 until he/she raised the CGPA to 3.00 or above.
Table 1. Minimum course and research requirement for MS degree1
| A. Major Courses | Cr. | Minor Courses | Cr. | ||||
| 1a. Core | 12 | 2a. Core | 3 | ||||
| ENT 501 | Insect Morphology and Morphometrics | 3 | STT 510 | Design of Experiment | 3 | ||
| ENT 502 | Insect Ecology and Behavior | 3 | |||||
| ENT 531 | Insect Taxonomy | 3 | |||||
| ENT 561 | Insect Physiology | 3 | |||||
| 1b. Elective | 9 | 2b. Elective | 6 | ||||
| ENT 516 | Principles of Insect Control | 3 | AFE 512 | Farming Systems | 3 | ||
| ENT 519 | Insect Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | AGP 501 | Processing of Field Crops | 3 | ||
| ENT 530 | Seed Entomology | 3 | AGR 516 | Principle of Weed Science | 3 | ||
| ENT 546 | Insecticide Toxicology | 3 | AGR 520 | Cropping Systems | 3 | ||
| ENT 547 | Biological Control | 3 | CBT 507 | Plant Ecology-1 | 3 | ||
| ENT 548 | Insect Pathology | 3 | ENS 510 | Environmental Pollution and Agriculture | 3 | ||
| ENT 577 | Forest Entomology | 3 | HRT 501 | Principles of Vegetable Production | 3 | ||
| ENT 578 | Industrial Entomology | 3 | HRT 506 | Principle of Fruit Production | 3 | ||
| ENT 580 | Integrated Pest Management | 3 | PLP 521 | Introduction to Nematology | 3 | ||
| ENT 581 | Plant Acarology | 3 | PLP 531 | Plant Virology | 3 | ||
| STT 501 | Methods of Statistics | 3 | |||||
| Other Courses2 | |||||||
| B. Seminar | 1 | ||||||
| ENT 598 | Seminar | 1 | |||||
| C. Thesis Research | 12 | ||||||
| ENT 599 | Thesis Research | Variable | |||||
| Total | 43 | ||||||
1Degree requirements may be changed on the recommendation of the Board of Studies and the Advisory Committee.
2Approved by the Advisory Committee.
Table 2. Minimum course and research requirement for PhD Degree1
| A. Major Courses | Credit | Minor Courses | Credit | ||
| 1a. Core | 15 | 2a. Core | 6 | ||
| ENT 602 | Insect Ecology and Conservation | 3 | HRT 541 | Research Methodology | 3 |
| ENT 631 | Advanced Insect Taxonomy | 3 | PLP 601 | Clinical Plant Pathology | 3 |
| ENT 632 | Environmental Toxicology of Pesticides | 3 | |||
| ENT 649 | Insect and Host Plant Resistance | 3 | |||
| ENT 661 | Advanced Insect Physiology | 3 | |||
| 1b. Elective | 9 | 2b. Elective | 9 | ||
| ENT 501 | Insect Morphology and Morphometrics | 3 | AER 530 | Extension Program Management and Administration | 3 |
| ENT 502 | Insect Ecology and Behavior | 3 | AGR 505 | Crop Physiology | 3 |
| ENT 519 | Insect Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | AGR 610 | Climate Change and Crop Production | 3 |
| ENT 546 | Insecticide Toxicology | 3 | AGR 662 | Weed Management | 3 |
| ENT 547 | Biological Control | 3 | ENS 541 | Global Warming and Climate Change | 3 |
| ENT 548 | Insect Pathology | 3 | GPB 527 | Plant Breeding | 3 |
| ENT 577 | Forest Entomology | 3 | GPB 615 | Plant Genetic Resources | 3 |
| ENT 578 | Industrial Entomology | 3 | HRT 501 | Principles of Vegetable Production | 3 |
| ENT 580 | Integrated Pest Management | 3 | HRT 621 | Processing of Horticultural Crops | 3 |
| ENT 581 | Plant Acarology | 3 | HRT 651 | Organic Farming | 3 |
| ENT 618 | Postharvest Entomology | PLP 502 | Epidemiology and Plant Disease Control | 3 | |
| SSC 642 | Environment and Soil Pollution | 3 | |||
| STT 510 | Design of Experiment | 3 | |||
| STT 520 | Sampling and Survey | 3 | |||
| Other Courses2 | |||||
| B. Seminar | 2 | ||||
| ENT 698 | Seminar | 2 | |||
| C. Dissertation Research | 36 | ||||
| ENT 699 | Dissertation Research | Variable | |||
| Total | 77 | ||||
1Degree requirements may be changed on the recommendation of the Board of Studies and the Advisory Committee.
2Approved by the Advisory Committee.