The aim of the course is for the students to acquire knowledge, skills and abilities in the classification, physiology, biology, and diversity of the animals, understanding of their role in the environment and in animal production in particular, management of animal organisms with a view to reducing their damaging and increasing their beneficial effects on animal production and on agriculture and the environment in general, in the classification of the Phylum Arthropoda, the diversity and importance of insects, knowledge on the morphology, systematics, biological cycles, ecology, risk and modern methods concerning the management of pests that infest crops, stored products, agricultural or domestic animals and insects of public health importance. The Laboratory Exercises aim to familiarize students with and develop skills related to the identification of the life stages of the Classes and important Families of animals and insects, with emphasis on pest of agricultural and hygiene importance as well as identifying the main types of symptoms and damages they cause.