• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.129-138
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• 1999

This study was carried out with two types of silkworm, Bombyx mori, adults having different life span: long life span (adult living for more than fifteen days; LLS), and short life span (adult living less for than five days; SLS). The fine structures of fat body cells in the young and the senescent males and females were compared in an attempt to elucidate the aging physiology of the silkworm adult. In SLS, there were many rough endoplasmic reticula (RER) and glycogen granules in the female cytoplasm, whereas the smooth endoplasmic reticula (SER) were observed in the male cytoplasm. Also in SLS, the mitochondria were swollen and had many poor osmiophillic inclusions (fatty degeneration) at three days after emergence. In LLS, compared to SLS, comparatively normal mitochondria and nuclear membrane were observed in even five day old female. In fifteen day old LLS female, however most of cell membranes were disappeared and mitochondria were abnormally expanded. Many fat granules were observed in the cytoplasm of ten day old male (LLS) which died with full autophagic vacuole (AV) collapsed at fifteen days. Therefore, it is suggested that SLS type is recommended for the study of aging tissue, because it is easier to monitor the changes in tissue structure.

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.362-371
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• 1992

Spiromeiru erinocer익 유충(sparganum)을 전이숙주(paratenic host)인 흰쥐와 종숙주인 고양이에 감염시켜 발육단계에 따라 회수해서 유충과 성충조직의 LDH(lactate dehydrogenase)와 SDH(succinate dehydrogenase)의 분포상 및 동위효소 유형을 효소조직화학적 방법과 전기영동법으로 조사하였다. 첫째, 유충조직에서의 LDH분포는 발육과정에 따른 차이는 없었으며 표피층과 실질근층에 비해 표피근층이 많이 분포하였다. 성체조직에서도 표피근층에 많이 분포하였는데 특히 성체의 표피층에서의 LOH 활성은 수태편절에서 상당히 많은 활성을 보인 반면 다른 편절의 표피층에서는 LDH의 활성이 없었다. 둘째, SDH의 조직분포는 유충과 성충 모두 표피근층에 많이 분포하58h으며 유충에서의 발육 후기는 발육초기보다 SDH의 분포량이 증가하였다. 셋째, LDH등위효소 유형은 유충과 성충에서 2개씩 나타났는데 유충에서는 M.W. 140 Kd가, 성충에서는 56 Kd가 주분획(major band)이었다. 넷째, SDH등위효소는 유충에서 1개(132 Kd), 성충에서 2개(132 Kd, 45 Kd)가'분리되었으며 성충에서 활성이 높게 나타난 band는 45 Kd인 단백질이었다.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.86-93
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• 1991

Adult eclosion and emergence behavior of the black pine base scale, Matsucoccus thunbergianae Miller and Park, was studied in a laboratory. Adult eclosion in males did not appear to be limited to a specific time of the day. Newly molted male adults, at room temperatures, usually remained in the cocoons as pre-emergence adults for 0.5-20. days before emerging; most males emerged within one hour after the onset of photophase, and emergence was faster at higher light intensity. Most females molted into adults within three hours after the onset of photophase, and they were active immediately after molting. Quiescence in males appears to help the scales concentrate their sexual activity within a particular period of the day as well as to protect newly molted adults until sexual and locomotive maturity.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.60 no.4
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• pp.363-367
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• 2021

This study was conducted to investigate the EAG (electroantennogram) response of Spodoptera frugiperda male to sex pheromone compounds and whether or not S. frugiperda male adults would undergo double mating. The EAG response of S. frugiperda male adult to Z9-14:Ac increased in a dose-dependent as the dose increased. Among the 7 sex pheromone components investigated, male EAG recording was the highest to Z9-14:Ac. The EAG response of S. frugiperda male adult to the mixed sex pheromone component was greater than that to the single component. Male adults of S. frugiperda were capable of double mating under laboratory condition, and the secondary mating rate increased to 72.2% compared to the 58.3% of primary mating rate. The EAG response of mated S. frugiperda male adult was not different from that of unmated S. frugiperda male. In the net house test with sex pheromone lure, mated male adults were not captured during the test period. Also, strangely, unmated male adults were not captured even in a trap equipped with virgin female adults, although the antennae of mated male adult were responded to the sex pheromone component in the laboratory. Probably, it is thought that the mated male adults may not have been caught in the trap be due to flight ability which has been decreased after mating. The field attractiveness of S. frugiperda male adults to sex pheromones remains to be further elucidated.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.222-229
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• 1990

The flight activities of Holotrichia morosa Watershouse and H. diomphaia Bates adults were monitored by blacklight traps for six years from 1984 to 1989. The flight activity of H. morosa adults was most prominent from late June to early August with a peak flight in mid July, and that of H. diomphalia adults mainly occurred from early May to late June of odd years with the peak flight dates varying year by year. The flight activities of the two species during the fight period became vigorous after moderate to heavy rainfalls. The overwintered adults of H. diomphalia seemed to begin flying when the daily mean temperature rose above $15^{\circ}C$. The ratios of the females to the total adults collected by the blacklight traps were 53.3% for H. morosa and 0% for H. diomphalia, although the female sex ratio of the latter species was 57.4% in the field.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.58 no.4
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• pp.363-380
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• 2019

Previous studies on the host plant range of Metcalfa pruinosa were conducted without distinguishing between its stages of development. In this study, we investigated host plants by studying the nymph and adult development stages of M. pruinosa. M. pruinosa nymphs were found on host plants that belong to 78 families and 227 species, and, to the best of our knowledge, host plants that belong to 27 families and 38 species have been reported for the first time. The host plants were divided into woody and herbaceous at the nymph stage of M. pruinosa, and the nymphs were found in 110 herbaceous and 117 woody species. M. pruinosa adults were found on host plants that belong to 87 families and 233 species, and, host plants that belong to 26 families and 36 species have been reported for the first time. The host plants were divided into woody and herbaceous at the adult stage of M. pruinosa, and the adults were found in 105 herbaceous and 128 woody species. Therefore, the total domestic host plant of M. pruinosa was 98 families 345 species. The nymph and adult in preoviposition stage prefer Helianthus annuus and the adult in oviposition stage prefer Persicaria tinctoria and Rosa rugosa.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.258-264
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• 1991

Studies were carried out to investigate effects of temperature and photoperiod on diapause induction and of juvenile hormone III and 20-hydroxyecdysone treatment on diapausing adults of the alder leaf beetle, Agelastica coerulea Baly(Chrγsomelidae: Coleoptera). Its life cycle and ovarian development in adults were also observed. The beetle had one year life cycle with egg, larval, pupal and adult periods being 7-10, 19-21, 14-15 days and about 10 months, r respectively. All adults showed a diapause syndrome when the larvae were reared at $20^{\circ}C$ or $25^{\circ}C$ in combination of photoperiods of 16L/8D, 12L/12D, or 8L/16D. Their ovarioles did not s show any development of vitellogenesis before or during diapause and even when exposed at $15^{\circ}C$ after overwintering. When diapausing adults were treated with JH III they resumed feeding and laid several eggs and broke diapause condition temporally. But diapausing adults treated with 20-hydroxyecdysone did not show any response.

• Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.28-35
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• 1993

Treatment of juvenile hormone analogue(JHA) at the 5th instar larvae prolonged the duration of adult development one to one and half days as well as the elongation of feeding time with the increasing of larval body weight. Morphological observation and protein analysis in hemolymphs, integuements, alimentary canals, fat bodies and ovaries also revealed that the development of these tissues and organs for adultation are affected by the JHA treatment.

• Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.20-24
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• 1988

Adult specific proteins, referred to as ASP-I(adult specific protein of slow mobility) and ASP-II(adult specific protein of slow mobility) at the pharate adult stage of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, were detected by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The adult specific proteins (ASP-I and ASP-II) were defined as a kind of adult hemolymph proteins without sex specificity, and the was no variation in the respective electrophoretic mobility of ASP-I and of ASP-II among the forty-one silkworm varieties. tested.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.486-491
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• 1992

The aboveground activities of the larger black chafer (Holotrichia morosa Waterhouse) and the Korean black chafer (H. diomphalia Bates) adults were investigated in the field and laboratory from 1991 through 1992. In a field cage, H. morosa adults emerged from the ground between 7 : 40-9 : 00 p.m. and H. diomphalia adults emerged between 7 : 30-10 : 00 p.m. After emergence, both females and males flied actively for less than one minute in H. morosa, while males flied inactively and females did not fly at all in H. diomphalia. Once emerged, adults of the two species mated or fed on plant leaves and seemed to stay aboveground till dawn. H. mOTOsa adults were attracted to a blacklight trap mainly between 8 : 10-10 : 00 p.m. in the field. H. morosa males and females emerged from soil every other day in a glass cistern.