1. Natural enemy enhancement and botanical insecticide source: a review of dual use companion plants

   • Blankson W. Amoabeng
   • Anne C. Johnson
   • Geoff M. Gurr

   Review Open access 18 January 2019 Pages: 1 - 19

   

2. Vibrations in hemipteran and coleopteran insects: behaviors and application in pest management

   • Takuma Takanashi
   • Nami Uechi
   • Haruki Tatsuta

   Review 11 January 2019 Pages: 21 - 29

   

3. Efficacy of a novel mixture of substances derived from food and food additives for controlling Dermanyssus gallinae (Mesostigmata: Dermanyssidae)

   • Makiko Odaka
   • Kazunori Matsuo
   • Ken Maeda

   Original Research Paper 22 September 2018 Pages: 31 - 38

   

4. A termite fungistatic compound, mellein, inhibits entomopathogenic fungi but not egg-mimicking termite ball fungi

   • Yuki Mitaka
   • Naoki Mori
   • Kenji Matsuura

   Original Research Paper 25 September 2018 Pages: 39 - 46

   

5. Morphology and development of the short wing in the seasonal dimorphism of the tussock moth, Orgyia thyellina (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae): comparison with the long wing

   • Akihiro Yoshida
   • Yoshiomi Kato

   Original Research Paper 04 October 2018 Pages: 47 - 54

   

6. Distribution and population structure of two phylogroups of the parasitoid Encarsia smithi (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) in tea fields infested with the invasive camellia spiny whitefly Aleurocanthus camelliae (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

   • Kaori Yara
   • Ryuji Uesugi
   • Yasushi Sato

   Original Research Paper 10 October 2018 Pages: 55 - 62

   

7. Effects of temperature on the development, fecundity, and life table parameters of Riptortus pedestris (Hemiptera: Alydidae)

   • Jeong Joon Ahn
   • Kyung San Choi
   • Sangwook Koh

   Original Research Paper 03 October 2018 Pages: 63 - 74

   

8. The developmental parameters of the minute brown scavenger beetle Dienerella argus (Coleoptera: Latridiidae)

   • Toshihiro Imai
   • Yoko Miyamoto

   Original Research Paper 07 November 2018 Pages: 75 - 78

   

9. A field study of the colony composition of the wood-feeding cockroach Panesthia angustipennis spadica (Blattodea: Blaberidae)

   • Hiroki Ito
   • Naoya Osawa

   Original Research Paper 26 November 2018 Pages: 79 - 84

   

10. Ovarian development related to pollen feeding in workers of the bumblebee Bombus ignitus (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

    • Chisato S. Tanaka
    • Mito Ikemoto
    • Tomoyuki Yokoi

    Original Research Paper 22 November 2018 Pages: 85 - 89

    

11. Baseline susceptibility and assessment of resistance risk to flubendiamide and chlorantraniliprole in Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) populations from Kuwait

    • Mustapha F. A. Jallow
    • Abdelhafiz A. Dahab
    • Binson M. Thomas

    Original Research Paper 28 November 2018 Pages: 91 - 99

    

12. Qualitative real-time PCR identification of the khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)

    • Satoshi Furui
    • Akihiro Miyanoshita
    • Ryota Kokutani

    Original Research Paper 28 November 2018 Pages: 101 - 107

    

13. Electroantennographic responses and field attraction of an emerging invader, the red-necked longicorn beetle Aromia bungii (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), to the chiral and racemic forms of its male-produced aggregation-sex pheromone

    • Hiroe Yasui
    • Nao Fujiwara-Tsujii
    • Kenji Mori

    Original Research Paper 13 December 2018 Pages: 109 - 114

    

14. Laboratory and glasshouse evaluation of the green lacewing, Chrysopa pallens (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) against the western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)

    • Shovon Chandra Sarkar
    • Endong Wang
    • Zhongren Lei

    Original Research Paper 08 January 2019 Pages: 115 - 121

    

15. Continuous variation in hind wing length of Galerucella grisescens (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) and genetic basis of wing length determination

    • Shota Nasu
    • Shôichi Imasaka
    • Makoto Tokuda

    Original Research Paper 21 January 2019 Pages: 123 - 128

    

16. Development of polymorphic microsatellite loci for Ceratosolen gravelyi (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae), the pollinating wasp of Ficus semicordata (Urticales: Moraceae)

    • Li-Yuan Yang
    • Ai-Ying Wang
    • Da-Yong Zhang

    Technical Note 13 October 2018 Pages: 129 - 132

17. PCR-based species identification applied in Japanese pear orchards to survey seasonal proportion changes of phytoseiid mite species

    • Yuya Mikawa
    • Hisato Ishii
    • Masatoshi Toyama

    Technical Note 21 November 2018 Pages: 133 - 139

    

18. Rapid development and characterization of EST-SSR markers for the honey locust seed beetle, Megabruchidius dorsalis (Coleoptera: Bruchidae), using de novo transcriptome analysis based on next-generation sequencing

    • Kako Ohbayashi
    • Naoko Ishikawa
    • Masakazu Shimada

    Technical Note 21 January 2019 Pages: 141 - 145

19. A simple method for distinguishing Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, B. mucronatus mucronatus, and B. m. kolymensis (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae) by polymerase chain reaction with specific primers designed based on cytochrome oxidase subunit I genes

    • Koji Matsunaga
    • Mitsuteru Akiba
    • Katsumi Togashi

    Technical Note 18 January 2019 Pages: 147 - 153