1. Message from the Chief Editor

   • Shoji Sonoda

   Editorial 18 March 2020 Pages: 187 - 187

2. Dominant honeybee colony infestation by Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidae) K haplotype in Japan

   • Mari H. Ogihara
   • Mikio Yoshiyama
   • Kiyoshi Kimura

   Original Research Paper 14 January 2020 Pages: 189 - 197

   

3. Deterrent effects of intact plants on host-searching behavior of parasitoid wasps

   • Kosuke Isono
   • Kazumu Kuramitsu
   • Yooichi Kainoh

   Original Research Paper 27 January 2020 Pages: 199 - 204

   

4. Inspection of frass ejection could decrease the risk of white-spotted longicorn beetle Anoplophora malasiaca (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) infestation of Japanese pine bonsais to negligible levels

   • Tetsuya Yasuda
   • Koji Mishiro
   • Takayuki Mitsunaga

   Original Research Paper 31 January 2020 Pages: 205 - 212

   

5. Efficacy of mating disruption compared with chemical insecticides for controlling Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in Kuwait

   • Mustapha F. A. Jallow
   • Abdelhafiz A. Dahab
   • Omar Al-Saeed

   Original Research Paper 11 March 2020 Pages: 213 - 221

   

6. A stereoisomer of JHSB₃ with 10S-configuration, 10S-JHSB₃, biosynthesized by the corpus allatum of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

   • Toyomi Kotaki
   • Keiji Matsumoto
   • Tetsuro Shinada

   Original Research Paper 27 February 2020 Pages: 223 - 229

   

7. Molecular phylogeny of the yellow peach moth, Conogethes punctiferalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae): distribution of two genetic lineages across Japan

   • M. Aoshima
   • H. Naka
   • K. Tsuchida

   Original Research Paper 09 March 2020 Pages: 231 - 240

   

8. Effects of providing pollen to Euseius sojaensis or Amblyseius eharai (Acari: Phytoseiidae) on populations of the pink citrus rust mite, Aculops pelekassi (Acari: Eriophyidae)

   • Yuta Tsuchida
   • Shinichi Masui

   Original Research Paper 25 March 2020 Pages: 241 - 248

   

9. Host-range study about four aphid parasitoid species among 16 aphid species for constructing banker–plant systems

   • Koukichi Nagasaka
   • Aki Sagisaka
   • Takayuki Mitsunaga

   Original Research Paper 04 April 2020 Pages: 249 - 257

10. Numerous peptidoglycan recognition protein genes expressed in the bacteriome of the green rice leafhopper Nephotettix cincticeps (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae)

    • Makoto Tomizawa
    • Yuki Nakamura
    • Hiroaki Noda

    Original Research Paper 30 March 2020 Pages: 259 - 269

    

11. Laboratory rearing of Lytopylus rufipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae), a parasitoid wasp of the oriental fruit moth, Grapholita molesta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), using apple and a commercially available diet

    • Chia-Ming Liu
    • Yooichi Kainoh

    Technical Note 10 February 2020 Pages: 271 - 276

    

12. Imaging densitometry of honeydew samples with Densitometric Research Operating Program (DROP)

    • Tsutomu Tsuchida
    • Naoya Wasano
    • Akiko Fujiwara

    Technical Note 10 February 2020 Pages: 277 - 280

    

13. Development and characterization of novel microsatellite markers in chestnut tiger butterfly Parantica sita (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) using next-generation sequencing

    • Ping Hu
    • Chia-Lung Huang
    • Rong-Jiang Wang

    Technical Note 11 March 2020 Pages: 281 - 286

14. Correction to: Ecological modeling and distribution analysis of digger scorpions: Odontobuthus doriae, Odontobuthus bidentatus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) and Scorpio maurus (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae) in Iran using the maximum entropy method

    • Ali Haghani
    • Mehdi Khoobdel
    • Mansour Aliabadian

    Correction 20 January 2020 Pages: 287 - 289