Insect article list
Kyoto Institute of Technology treats humans with the pathogenic virus of silk moth
On May 5, a research team led by Professor Mori of Kyoto Institute of Technology used a silk moth pathogenic virus to protect proteins that treat affected areas in humans […]
Elucidation of the mechanism by which ladybugs store feathers, expected application to design and manufacturing The University of Tokyo
A research group led by Assistant Professor Kazuya Saito of the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo has elucidated the ingenious deformation mechanism of ladybugs folding the back spring. […]
Elucidation of special flight mechanism of mosquitoes such as Chiba University
The method of flying mosquitoes is very special.Insects of similar size, such as Drosophila, flap about 200 times per second […]
Nagasaki University's new knowledge Eliminates natural enemy ants with the father of a turtle, "stink bug smell"
On March 3, a research group of Associate Professor Shinya Oba of the Faculty of Education of Nagasaki University and Airi Maeda, a student of the same department, said that the male who protects the eggs physically kills the natural enemy ant.
Cockroaches maintain colonies with only multiple females Hokkaido University
A research team led by Takumi Kato, a second-year doctoral student at the Faculty of Life Sciences, Hokkaido University, found that when multiple female cockroaches were bred, parthenogenesis (no males […]]
Kyushu University, World's Oldest Possibility of Social Parasitism for True Social Insects
Shuhei Yamamoto, 3rd year doctoral student at the Graduate School of Bioresources and Environmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Munetoshi Maruyama, Assistant Professor, The Kyushu University Museum of Research, Josep, Columbia University […]
Elucidation of learning mechanism using knockout crickets from Hokkaido University
The group of Professor Makoto Mizunami of Hokkaido University is a joint research with the group of Assistant Professor Taro Mito of Tokushima University, and the genome edition called Crisper Cass 9 […]