scholarly journals Larval Diapause in the Yellow-Spotted Longicorn Beetle, Psacothea hilaris (PASCOE) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

1996 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshinori SHlNTANI ◽  
Yukio ISHIKAWA ◽  
Sadahiro TATSUKI
Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 383
Author(s):  
Nao Fujiwara-Tsujii ◽  
Hiroe Yasui

The white-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca, is one of the most destructive pests of horticultural crops and street trees. Effective controls are needed because the effect of marketed insecticides is limited. Entomopathogenic fungi offer a solution, and improving the rate of infection would be a breakthrough in this beetle’s control. The combination of pathogenic fungi and the beetle’s contact sex pheromone was suggested. The surface of the female body is covered with contact sex pheromone, which elicit male mating behavior. To develop a method for the practical control of this beetle, we evaluated the arrestant activity of female extract containing contact pheromone coated on a black glass model. Males presented with a coated model held on for 5 h (mean) during an 8-h experiment. In contrast, males presented with a control model held on for <0.3 h. Males that held onto coated models attached to fabric impregnated with conidia of the fungus Beauveria brongniartii picked up much conidia, which they then passed on to females during mating.


Genetics ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 143 (2) ◽  
pp. 961-972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Jeanne Perrot-Minnot ◽  
Li Rong Guo ◽  
John H Werren

Abstract Wolbachia are cytoplasmically inherited bacteria responsible for reproductive incompatibility in a wide range of insects. There has been little exploration, however, of within species Wolbachia polymorphisms and their effects on compatibility. Here we show that some strains of the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis are infected with two distinct bacterial strains (A and B) whereas others are singly infected (A or B). Double and single infections are confirmed by both PCR amplification and Southern analysis of genomic DNA. Furthermore, it is shown that prolonged larval diapause (the overwintering stage of the wasp) of a double-infected strain can lead to stochastic loss of one or both bacterial strains. After diapause of a double-infected line, sublines were produced with AB, A only, B only or no Wolbachia. A and B sublines are bidirectionally incompatible, whereas males from AB lines are unidirectionally incompatible with females of A and B sublines. Results therefore show rapid development of bidirectional incompatibility within a species due to segregation of associated symbiotic bacteria.


2007 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroe Yasui ◽  
Tetsuya Yasuda ◽  
Midori Fukaya ◽  
Toshiharu Akino ◽  
Sadao Wakamura ◽  
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2004 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Midori Fukaya ◽  
Toshiharu Akino ◽  
Tetsuya Yasuda ◽  
Hiroe Yasui ◽  
Sadao Wakamura

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