I have mastered the use of a good number of old and quite modern computer software. These include the following:

Word processors E.g. Volks Writer, Word perfect, Microsoft Word and Professional Word Star. Spread sheets E.g. Lotus 123 and Quattro. Data bases E.g. Reflex, Rbase and Professional File. Statistical packages E.g. Microstat, Epistat and Systat. Graphic software E.g. Harvard Graphics and Boeing 3D Graphics. And a number of operating systems and utility packages including Windows 95 and associated software.

I have also used and trained a good number of my graduate students in the use of packages especially written for ecologically oriented entomological research. These include the soft ware “Insect Demographic Analysis”(IDA) developed for detailed analysis of life tables data systems and the program “Jolly” developed for the absolute population estimates of insects through capture-recapture techniques.

I have also developed two basic programs to compile and analyzed ecological and behavioral data for a wide range of insect species. The first one named “Behavior.bas” modified to study the process of host finding and acceptance of parasitic insects and to evaluate the parasites various activities during this process. The other program named “Daydegre.bas” is developed as a weather data management tool and to compute the physiological time or day degree of insects.

Beside these, automation of life tables data spread sheets was developed through macros and this made life tables analysis easy to compute.

All these packages are availed to my students who use them in the analysis of their data.