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Disease In Lepidoptera Course


Disease in Lepidoptera

Three weeks of online disease education!

Receive your certificates (e-certificate and paper certificate) upon completion of the course.

Technical Assistance and Course Editing by:

  • Amanda Lawrence; Pathology - Mississippi State University
  • Leellen Solter PhD; Pathologist - Illinois Natural History Survey

If you would like to read the pages below, click on an image to enlarge that page.

     

Over eighty pages of instructional material including;
  • Signs and Symptoms
  • Methods of Disease Transmissio
  • OE
  • NPV
  • Fungi
  • Bacteria
  • Breeding Stock
  • Checking for Disease
  • Standard Operating Procedures
  • Journal
  • Causes of Disease
  • Safety Precautions to prevent disease
  • Sanitation of eggs, pupae, food, surfaces, and containers
  • and more!


How the course works:
  • The beginning of each week for three weeks, students receives their course material via email.
  • A short quiz is included each week. This quiz is due by Saturday midnight.
  • A email mailing list is used for class discussion. Students are not required to receive or participate in this mailing list.
  • The fourth week students receive their final exam. The final exam is due that Saturday by midnight. This gives a minimum of six days to fill out the final exam.

Course fees;
Full member of AFB - FREE
Associate member of AFB - $35
Supporter member of AFB - $45
Non-member of AFB - $60


Join the Association for Butterflies now and receive your discount on this course!

To register for this course, Contact Us.

Payments may be made via check (Association for Butterflies, 6085 Midway Road,Charlottesville VA 22903) or through PayPal to paypal@forbutterflies.org.

Application for this course. Please fill in the application with the name of the course you are taking as well as the date you wish to take the course.


   
   

 

 
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
     
   
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