Insect article list
Zoology: The secret of a small beetle flying at high speed
Zoology: Secrets of a miniature beetle's speedy flight […]
"Mantis Snow Forecast" is wrong Hirosaki University Professor Emeritus Kiichi Ando publishes research results
Professor Emeritus Kiichi Ando of Hirosaki University scientifically proved that the mantis' snow prediction was wrong. "SCIENCE WATCH Learn from Mantis […]
Osaka University elucidates technology for digging holes in hard ground by thick beetle larvae
A research group led by Haruhiko Adachi, a graduate student (doctoral course) at Osaka University, found out how thick and thick beetle larvae lay on hard ground […].
Night lights in the city interfere with insect hibernation, discovered by Setsunan University and Osaka City University
Assistant Professor Ayumu Mukai of Setsunan University Faculty of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University […]
Succeeded in 3D gel printing that mimics the remodeling of the outer shell after molting of insects Tohoku University
Even if an insect molts as it grows, it can reshape a hard outer shell called the cuticle into the epidermis, preventing foreign substances from entering the outside world and […].
The world's first treatise on "male killing", a symbiotic bacterium of insects, published by Kagoshima University, etc.
The research group of Mr. Kazutaka Yoshida, a second-year doctoral student at Kagoshima University (in addition, Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Saga University) is paddy rice, etc. […]
Male insects with large weapons are good at pretending to be dead, Kagawa University and Okayama University elucidate
A research group at Kagawa University and Okayama University investigated the relationship between the mandible size of a male insect called the red flour beetle and the behavior of pretending to be dead […].
A 4th grade student attached to Okayama University discovers an extremely rare bear zemi in Okayama City
Satoshi Tsuge, a 4th grade elementary school student at the Faculty of Education, Okayama University, was taking a cicada at Urayasu Comprehensive Park in Minami-ku, Okayama City in August, and was perched on the trunk of a cherry tree. […]
Large moth attracts light of a specific wavelength, elucidated by Hokkaido University etc.
The fact that large moths such as gypsy moths and caligula japonica are strongly attracted to light of a specific wavelength is the fact that Assistant Professor Hiroshi Nishino of the Institute of Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Ai Domae […]
Research teams such as Hosei University discover two new species of cockroaches in the Nansei Islands
The research team of Professor Satoshi Shimano of Hosei University, Shizuma Yanagisawa of Ryuyo Insect Nature Observation Park, and Associate Professor Yoshitaka Sakamaki of Kagoshima University is in the Southwest Islands (Kagoshima Prefecture-Oki […]