1. Can the predatory mites Amblyseius swirskii and Amblyseius eharai reproduce by feeding solely upon conspecific or heterospecific eggs (Acari: Phytoseiidae)?

   • Jie Ji
   • Yanxuan Zhang
   • Yutaka Saito

   Original Research Paper 30 December 2014 Pages: 149 - 154

2. Functional analysis of antisense long non-coding RNAs transcribed from the Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) nucleopolyhedrovirus genome

   • Genki Ishihara
   • Ryuhei Kokusho
   • Susumu Katsuma

   Original Research Paper 31 December 2014 Pages: 155 - 167

   

3. Outbreaks of the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae) are caused by broad-spectrum insecticide spraying in apple orchards

   • Ken Funayama

   Original Research Paper 05 March 2015 Pages: 169 - 174

   

4. Tomato treatment with chemical inducers reduces the performance of Spodoptera littoralis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

   • Islam S. Sobhy
   • Nasser S. Mandour
   • Awad A. Sarhan

   Original Research Paper 05 March 2015 Pages: 175 - 182

   

5. Olfactory and biophysical assessment of the oviposition stimulating potential of host and non-host plants for the yellow peach moth, Conogethes punctiferalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

   • Zhixin Luo
   • Hiroshi Honda

   Original Research Paper 05 March 2015 Pages: 183 - 189

6. Male-specific epicuticular compounds of the sulfur butterfly Colias erate poliographus (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

   • Hisashi Ômura
   • Shunsuke Yotsuzuka

   Original Research Paper 14 February 2015 Pages: 191 - 199

   

7. Euborellia annulipes (Dermaptera: Anisolabididae), a new alien earwig in Central European greenhouses: potential pest or beneficial inhabitant?

   • Petr Kocarek
   • Libor Dvorak
   • Marketa Kirstova

   Original Research Paper 17 February 2015 Pages: 201 - 206

   

8. Acute toxicities of 42 pesticides used for green peppers to an aphid parasitoid, Aphidius gifuensis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), in adult and mummy stages

   • Izumi Ohta
   • Mitsuyoshi Takeda

   Original Research Paper 14 February 2015 Pages: 207 - 212

   

9. Dietary effects of housefly (Musca domestica) (Diptera: Muscidae) pupae on the growth performance and the resistance against bacterial pathogen in red sea bream (Pagrus major) (Perciformes: Sparidae)

   • Atsushi Ido
   • Toshiharu Iwai
   • Takeshi Miura

   Original Research Paper 14 February 2015 Pages: 213 - 221

   

10. Nardonella endosymbionts of Japanese pest and non-pest weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

    • Takahiro Hosokawa
    • Ryuichi Koga
    • Takema Fukatsu

    Original Research Paper 05 March 2015 Pages: 223 - 229

    

11. Analysis of peach fruit headspace volatiles and response by the fruit-piercing moth Oraesia excavata (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

    • Yohei Izumi
    • Ruilin Tian
    • Hisaaki Tsumuki

    Original Research Paper 25 February 2015 Pages: 231 - 238

    

12. Potato virus Y-infected tobacco affects the growth, reproduction, and feeding behavior of a vector aphid, Myzus persicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

    • Guang-wei Ren
    • Xiu-fang Wang
    • Xiang-dong Liu

    Original Research Paper 14 February 2015 Pages: 239 - 243

13. Symptoms shown by late-stage larvae of the West Indian sweet potato weevil Euscepes postfasciatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) infected with Farinocystis sp. (Neogregarinida: Lipotrophidae)

    • Kaori Tsurui
    • Tsuyoshi Ohishi
    • Keiko Shiromoto

    Original Research Paper 25 February 2015 Pages: 245 - 254

    

14. Influence of nematicide on the damage caused by Meloidogyne incognita (Tylenchida: Meloidogynidae) to sweet potato in sandy fields in northeastern Tokushima Prefecture

    • Naruhito Abe
    • Masanori Matsuzaki
    • Koki Toyota

    Original Research Paper 14 March 2015 Pages: 255 - 261

    

15. Geographical variation in diapause development in eggs of Sympetrum frequens (Odonata: Libellulidae)

    • Keiji Nakamura
    • Kazuki Takashima

    Original Research Paper 14 March 2015 Pages: 263 - 270

    

16. Simple electroporation device for gene functional analyses in insects

    • T. N. Sugimoto
    • T. Tsuchida

    Technical Note 23 December 2014 Pages: 271 - 275