1. Message from the Chief Editor

   • Tetsuo Gotoh

   Editorial 22 January 2015 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Development of Bradysia odoriphaga (Diptera: Sciaridae) as affected by humidity: an age–stage, two-sex, life-table study

   • Yuting Yang
   • Wenxiang Li
   • Youjun Zhang

   Original Research Paper 28 September 2014 Pages: 3 - 10

   

3. The additive effect of carbon dioxide on mortality of the cigarette beetle Lasioderma serricorne (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) in low-oxygen atmospheres

   • Toshihiro Imai

   Original Research Paper 26 September 2014 Pages: 11 - 15

4. Role of scalloped in the post-embryonic development of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

   • Chieka Minakuchi
   • Takahiro Ohde
   • Teruyuki Niimi

   Original Research Paper 27 September 2014 Pages: 17 - 26

   

5. Occurrence of Trissolcus basalis (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), an egg parasitoid of Nezara viridula (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae), in Japan

   • Toshiharu Mita
   • Hiroyuki Nishimoto
   • Nobuo Mizutani

   Original Research Paper 27 September 2014 Pages: 27 - 31

   

6. Relationship between pine wilt disease development in asymptomatic carrier trees of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Nematoda: Apelenchoididae) and their use by Monochamus alternatus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

   • Noritoshi Maehara
   • Takuya Aikawa
   • Natsumi Kanzaki

   Original Research Paper 14 October 2014 Pages: 33 - 39

   

7. Adaptive significance of the mating of autumn-morph females with non-overwintering summer-morph males in the Japanese Common Grass Yellow, Eurema mandarina (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

   • Tatsuro Konagaya
   • Mamoru Watanabe

   Original Research Paper 15 October 2014 Pages: 41 - 47

   

8. Large variation in length of egg period in Psacothea hilaris (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

   • Mizuho Yumino
   • Katsumi Togashi

   Original Research Paper 18 October 2014 Pages: 49 - 55

   

9. Deletion analysis of a superoxide dismutase gene of Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) nucleopolyhedrovirus

   • Susumu Katsuma
   • Hisanori Bando
   • Toru Shimada

   Original Research Paper 28 October 2014 Pages: 57 - 62

   

10. De novo analysis of the Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) transcriptome and identification of putative glutathione S-transferase genes

    • Su Liu
    • Xiao-Xiao Shi
    • Zeng-Rong Zhu

    Original Research Paper 25 November 2014 Pages: 63 - 71

    

11. Genetic structure in relation to reproduction mode in Thrips tabaci (Insecta: Thysanoptera)

    • Kazushi Sogo
    • Kazuki Miura
    • Richard Stouthamer

    Original Research Paper 30 October 2014 Pages: 73 - 77

    

12. Influence of leaf trichome type and density on the host plant selection by the greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

    • Pasco B. Avery
    • Vivek Kumar
    • Jane Faull

    Original Research Paper 19 November 2014 Pages: 79 - 87

    

13. Effects of manipulated density of the wolf spider, Pardosa astrigera (Araneae: Lycosidae), on pest populations and cabbage yield: a field enclosure experiment

    • Hiroshi Suenaga
    • Tetsuzo Hamamura

    Original Research Paper 26 November 2014 Pages: 89 - 97

    

14. Indirect effects of nutrients in organic and conventional paddy field soils on the rice grasshopper, Oxya japonica (Orthoptera: Acrididae), mediated by rice plant nutrients

    • Dina Wahyu Trisnawati
    • Takayuki Tsukamoto
    • Hironori Yasuda

    Original Research Paper 04 December 2014 Pages: 99 - 107

    

15. Analysis of an antennal cDNA library and the expression patterns of two olfactory genes in Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)

    • Fang-Fang Zeng
    • Shuang-Shuang Zhou
    • Man-Qun Wang

    Original Research Paper 03 December 2014 Pages: 109 - 116

    

16. Nutritional status of overwintering adults of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), is affected by cone counts of Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria japonica, in northern Japan

    • Ken Funayama

    Original Research Paper 27 November 2014 Pages: 117 - 121

    

17. Benomyl-resistant Beauveria bassiana (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) mutants induced by ion beams

    • Yuyun Fitriana
    • Shinobu Shinohara
    • Tsutomu Saito

    Original Research Paper Open access 18 December 2014 Pages: 123 - 129

    

18. Development and characterization of microsatellite loci from Metcalfa pruinosa (Hemiptera: Flatidae)

    • Minyoung Kim
    • Deok Ho Kwon
    • Seunghwan Lee

    Technical Note 29 October 2014 Pages: 131 - 135

19. Novel behavioral assay of wasabi avoidance in Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae) using a video tracking system

    • Hirono Ohashi
    • Takaomi Sakai

    Technical Note 22 October 2014 Pages: 137 - 142

    

20. Construction of Adoxophyes honmai nucleopolyhedrovirus bacmid DNA by using a gene-repair BAC cassette

    • Yasumasa Saito
    • Yasuhisa Kunimi
    • Madoka Nakai

    Technical Note 08 January 2015 Pages: 143 - 146

    

21. Erratum to: Rapid microsatellite marker isolation for the Pink Stem Borer, Sesamia inferens (Lepidopetera: Noctuidae) through 454 GS-FLX Titanium pyrosequencing of enriched DNA libraries and cross amplification in related taxa

    • Yudi Liu
    • Xingkui An
    • Maolin Hou

    Erratum 14 November 2014 Pages: 147 - 147