It was assumed that one of the most important factors preventing the hibernation of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), in northern Japan is the low temperatures, 0 ° C or below, and snow cover during the winter. To test this hypothesis, individuals of each developmental stage of diamondback moth were reared at 1 5 ° C in the laboratory and kept at 0°C for varying periods of time an...

Twenty-seven Trichogramma and Trichogrammatoidea species or strains of different origin were tested on diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella (L.)) for host acceptance and host suitability. The experiments were conducted at 27 ± 2oC and 75-90% RH. Depending on their initial parasitization activity, the number of offspring produced and emergence ratio, 18 Trichogramrna species were identified as ...

Highly coevolved pollination mutualism accompanied by reciprocal diversification has been known in only two plant genera, Ficus (Moraceae) and Yucca (Agavaceae), which are pollinated exclusively by obligate seed-parasitic wasps and moths, respectively. An additional, highly diversified, species-specific pollination mutualism between a monoecious tree genus, Glochidion (Euphorbiaceae), and a mot...

Macromoth diversity, abundance, and community structure in the topographically complex HJ Andrews Experimental Forest and LTER site was studied on the west slope of the Cascade Range, Oregon. Data on 493 macromoth species (62,221 individuals) was sampled eight times/year at 20 locations from 2004 to 2008 and examined using multivariate statistics and generalized additive models to determine the...

The winter moth (Operophtera brumata) belongs to one of the most species-rich families in Lepidoptera, the Geometridae (approximately 23,000 species). This family is of great economic importance as most species are herbivorous and capable of defoliating trees. Genome assembly of the winter moth allows the study of genes and gene families, such as the cytochrome P450 gene family, which is known ...

The kaleidoscopic structures in the electron micrographs above are the bundles of microtubules (axonemes) found in moth and fly sperm tail flagella, shown in cross-section. The axonemes above show the pattern typical of cilia and flagella in insects and other arthropods: nine doublet microtubules surround a central pair of singlet microtubules, and each doublet is associated with a singlet 'acc...

The potato tuber moth, Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller), in tropical and subtropical countries, is the most destructive pest of potato, Solanum tuberosum L. The larvae attack foliage and tubers in the field and in storage. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a Bt-cry5 transgene to control the potato tuber moth in tuber tissues. Tuber bioassays using stored (11-12 mo old) a...

We developed a technique to improve spectral mixture Results were verified with a high spatial resolution aerial analysis of snow-covered area in alpine regions through photograph demonstrating equivalent accuracy. Analysis the use of multiple snow endmembers. Snow reflectance of fraction under/overflow and residuals confirmed mixin near-infrared wavelengths is sensitive to snow grain ture anal...

Recently, a small series of an unidentified notodontid moth from Bhutan was presented to me by Pavel Morozov (Moscow). The moth is described below, and represents a hitherto unknown species of the holarctic genus Notodonta Ochsenheimer, 1810 and the first record for the genus in the Himalayas.