The registration cost for this course is $450, and class size is limited to 20 people. If you have any questions about the course contents, please contact Professor Cohen at this email address: [email protected]
Here is the contact information for Professor Allen Carson Cohen’s Spring 2025 course in insect rearing:https://reporter.ncsu.edu/link/instanceview?courseID=MCE-OPD-C-OLFIRSF&deptName=MCE&instanceID=000006
Contact information:
Darthea Powden
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 919-515-9092
Link to register:
Professor Allen Carson Cohen will be teaching the Fundamentals of Insect Rearing in March and April 2025. This popular course will start on March 4, 2025 and continue to April 10, 2025. The format of the course is 12=two hour lectures, discussions, and questions/answers. The time of this real-time, interactive course is 10:00 am to 12 noon (Eastern Time) every Tuesday and Thursday.
The course is rich with videos of insect rearing dynamics, lots of visual materials and instruction in all aspects of rearing aimed at entry-level through intermediate level participants.
| Unit/Lesson Name | Time Allotted | Content Description and/or Purpose |
| Unit 1: March 4, 2025 | 2.0 hours (10:00 am to 12 noon, EST) | Topic 1: To develop a unified understanding of the purposes of insect rearing systems, experimental design for rearing systems, who rears insects and why? |
| Unit 2: March 6, 2025 | 2.0 hours (10:00 am to 12 noon, EST) | Topic 2: Diets: Overview of Insect Nutrition and MetabolismBasics of insect nutrition and dietetics, essentiality concept |
| Unit 3: March 11, 2025 | 2.0 hours (10:00 am to 12 noon, EST) | Topic 3: Feeding Biology and Matching Diets with Feeding Biology; mouthparts, gut structure, excretion related to foods eaten by our insects. |
| Unit 4: March 13, 2025 | 2.0 hours (10:00 am to 12 noon, EST) | Topic 4: Diet-Making and Presentation: diet preparation processes, mixing, heating, delivery, presentation |
| Unit 5: March 18, 2025 | 2.0 hours (10:00 am to 12 noon, EST) | Topic 5: Diet Development and Optimization: how do we develop diets? How do we optimize diets? More applications of design of experiments |
| Unit 6: March 20, 2025 | 2.0 hours (10:00 am to 12 noon, EST) | Topic 6: Diets: Diet Components—Chemical and Physical InteractionsAlso: Insectaries and Insect Rearing Equipment |
| Unit 7: March 25, 2025 | 2.0 hours (10:00 am to 12 noon, EST) | Topic 7: Insectaries and Insect Rearing EquipmentAlso: Domestication & Colonization |
| Unit 8: March 27 2025 | 2.0 hours (10:00 am to 12 noon, EST) | Topic 8: Consequences and managing colonized insects. What happens to our insects that we are domesticating by our rearing practices? |
| Unit 9: April 1, 2025 | 2.0 hours (10:00 am to 12 noon, EST) | Microbial Relations in Rearing Systems. What are the pathogens, symbionts, and other microbes associated with rearing? |
| Unit 10: April 3, 2025 | 2.0 hours (10:00 am to 12 noon, EST) | Reducing Error and Stress in Rearing Systems 1. How and why to use routine data collection and analysis to identify problems in our rearing systems. |
| Unit 11: April 8, 2025 | 2.0 hours (10:00 am to 12 noon, EST) | Reducing Error and Stress in Rearing Systems 2. How and what do we do to solve the rearing problems, inconsistencies, and other issues in our rearing systems? |
| Unit 12: April 10, 2025 | 2.0 hours (10:00 am to 12 noon, EST) | Quality Control of Reared Insects and Process Control. How do we develop SOPs and other aspects of quality control? |
This is the course content for the Spring 2025 Fundamentals of Insect Rearing