Until recently, Thrips setosus Moulton, 1928 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) has been regarded as endemic to Japan, occurring in open and greenhouse fields. The thrips causes direct feeding damage as well as transmits Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) to agricultural vegetables and ornamentals. In 2014, it was found on Hydrangea in the Netherlands and then also confirmed as a invasive pest in the other European countries such as France and Germany. Interestingly, Hydrangea originated in Southern and Eastern Asia has not previously been recorded as a host plant. In Korea, since its first discovery in a commercial Hydrangea greenhouse in Gimje, Jeonbuk Province this year, the species was additionally found on the same crop in Jeonnam and Gyeonggi Provinces. Occording to the farmers, all Hydrangea plants has been imported from the Netherlands. Molecular phylogenetic study using COI partial gene strongly suggests that the thrips may have recurrently invaded with infested Hydrangea plants from Europe.

The continuous emergence of chemical-mediated residual toxicity and insect resistance have enforced the regulation of synthetic pesticides. Synthetic pesticides with novel mode of actions could be developed to overcome these issues, but as an alternative biopesticides with more efficacious control activity could be developed by the advanced technology. In pest management, entomopathogenic fungi have high potential in reducing pest population to an economic threshold, and some of isolates have been commercialized. However still a novel application strategy needs to be considered for successful industrialization. An insight on fungal genes in whole genome and transcriptome levels is necessary to understand the role of genes in pathogenesis and genetic diversity of fungal genes. Herein, we have identified the genetic differences of entomopathogenic fungi using whole genome sequencing of Beauveria bassiana (Bb) and tried to understand the interaction between fungus and insect using RNA-seq. We have obtained the whole genome sequence of Bb JEF-007 using PacBio sequencing technology and compared the transcriptomes of Bb JEF-007 and bean bug, Riptortus pedestris before and after the fungal infection using Hiseq 2000 system.

RNA interference (RNAi)-based strategy has been developed to control various phytophagous chewing pests. However, only a few cases of RNAi-based control success have been reported for sucking pests, suggesting that sucking pests likely ingest less amount of transgenic subcellular hairpin RNA (or dsRNA). In this study, as the basic information for the establishment of ingestion RNAi against sucking pests, feeding amount and time course of plant subcellular fractions of the four sucking pest species (Frankliniella occidentalis, Frankliniella intonsa, Tetranychus urticae and Nilaparvata lugans) were determined by quantitative PCR (qPCR). Adults of the four species were starved for 24 h and then fed with kidney bean leaf (F. occidentalis, F. intonsa, T. urticae) or rice leaf (N. lugens) for 48 h. The leaf-fed adults were collected every 6-h interval and their genomic DNA was extracted. The ingested fractions of chloroplast and nuclear were quantified using rubisco and 50s rRNA as marker genes, respectively. The ingested amount of rubisco and 50s rRNA genes in F. occidentalis, F. intonsa and T. urticae showed rapid increasing pattern after feeding and then slightly reduced over time. In contrast, N. lugens neither ingest nuclear nor showed any distinct feeding pattern of chloroplast. These results demonstrate that F. occidentalis, F. intonsa and T. urticae ingest both chloroplasts and nucleus along with cytosol as cell-feeders but N. lugens, a phloem sap feeder, does not ingest nucleus during sucking. Our findings further suggest that ingestion RNAi-based control strategy would work better for cell-feeding sucking pests compared to phloem sap-feeding sucking pests.

한국산 수염잎벌아과의 미기록종인 살구나무테두리잎벌(신칭)을 확인하고 처음으로 보고한다. 본 종은 2016년 처음 국내에서 발견되어 살구나무를 가해하는 해충으로 보고되었고, 본 연구를 통해 최초로 종을 규명하고자 한다. 살구나무테두리잎벌의 생활사 및 생태사진과 기재 및 주요 형질 사진을 제공한다.

외래 과실파리에 대한 모니터링은 검역에 필수적이다. 과실파리 유인물질을 왁스 재질로 제형화하여 비교적 장기간 모니터링 할 수 있는 기술이 금지급 과실파리 모니터링에 유효하였다. 본 연구는 이 왁스 제형의 유용성을 확장시키기 위해 금지급 과실파리가 자생하고 있는 태국 현지에 적용하였다. 포획된 개체들을 분자 동정한 결과 기존에 유인력이 입증된 오리엔탈과실파리(Bactrocera dorsalis)와 오이과실파리(Zeugodacus cucurbitae)는 물론이고 Zeugodacus caudata의 검역 과실파리가 유인된다는 것을 밝혔다.

Sampling insect pest population is often a necessary component of a proposed pest control strategy. Insect populations are poikilothermal animal and readily applied to model systems in several ways. When insect population immigrate to new possible habitats, they should be related with biotic and abiotic environments for survive and settle down. Based on climate change scenario, invasive insect species would be overcome its geographical limitation as well as local distribution of well-known species should be changed in near future. In this study, Species distribution modeling of native and invasive species were developed, compared and discussed for developing sampling strategies for invasive insect pest populations.

The movements of unwanted pests between different continents are being accelerated by the global climate change and ever-increasing international trades, which has also been facilitated by the recent increase of FTA and other trade agreements. Many invasive pests cause serious economic losses and ecological disturbance in invaded rural and natural areas. Since the uncertainty of potential impact of invasive pests, it would be extremely useful if the priority of invasive quarantine pests can be predicted for the efficient surveillance and eradication processes. We are initially analysed national and foreign examples to evaluate the current system of pest prioritization of national quarantine pests. Also here we suggests evaluation platforms for selecting high priority exotic pests.

제주지역 방울다다기양배추 포장에서 발생하는 병해충에 대한 발생특성을 구명하기 위하여 2016 ~ 2017년(2개년) 7월(파종기)부터 이듬해 2월(수확기)까지 육안 관찰과 성페로몬 트랩을 이용하여 조사 하였다. 방울다다기양배추에 발생하는 병해충은 병해 5종, 해충 15종으로 총 20종이 조사되었으며, 주요 병해는 검은썩음병, 검은무늬병, 해충은 배추좀나방, 도둑나방, 배추흰나비, 양배추가루진딧물이었다. 성 페로몬 트랩을 이용하여 주요 나방류 발생시기를 조사한 결과 배추좀나방은 연중, 파밤나방과 담배거세미나방은 9월～11월에 주로 발생되었으며, 도둑나방은 성 페로몬 트랩에 의한 포획 개체수는 적었으나 피해는 심한 편이었다. 얻어진 결과를 활용하여 방울다다기양배추의 시기별 주요 병해충 발생 및 방제체계를 도식화하였다.

드론을 이용한 밭작물 병해충 방제기준을 설정하기 위하여 드론의 살포높이(3, 4, 5m), 진행속도(3m/sec, 4m/sec) 에 따른 하향풍 속도, 살포 폭, 약량별 감수지에서 입자크기, 살포조건별 낙하입자수 등 드론의 농약 살포특성을 조사하였다. 또, 배추의 주요해충인 배추좀나방, 파밤나방, 담배거세미나방에 대하여 항공방제용 농약 4종을 대상으로 치사농도와 약량을 검정하였다. 드론 표면별 평균 낙하입자비율은 표면 80.5%, 사면 14.8%, 밑면 4.7%였으며, 살포높이별 평균낙하입자수는 3m=53개/㎠, 4m=40개/㎠, 5m=39개/㎠였고, 진행속도별 평균낙하 입자수는 3m/sec=62개/㎠, 4m/sec는 25개/㎠였다. 약제별 배추좀나방 치사농도와 치사량은 승승장구 (10배, 2㎕), 포워드(15배, 1㎕), 섹큐어(20배, 0.5㎕), 레이서((25배, 0.5㎕)였으며, 파밤나방에 대하여는 섹큐어(20배, 1㎕), 레이서((20배, 1㎕), 담배거세미나방은 섹큐어(20배, 1㎕), 레이서((20배, 0.5㎕)였다. 따라서 배추 주요해충 방제를 위한 농약살포방법은 섹큐어액상수화제, 레이서액상수화제를 20배액으로 희석하여 3m 높이에서 3m/sec속도로 살포시 낙하 입자수 72개/㎠로 해충방제에 효과적이었다.

전국 136개 시군에 있는 690개소 벼 관찰포에서 12종의 주요 해충을 6월 1일부터 9월 13일까지 15일 간격으로 총 8회 조사한 결과를 국가농작물병해충관리시스템(NCPMS)을 통하여 수집하였다. 2017년도 벼 주요해충 12종의 총 발생 추정면적은 158,942ha로 재배면적 대비 21.1%에 발생되었다. 발생면적이 가장 많았던 해충은 애멸구로 43,875ha(재배면적 대비 5.8%)이였고, 그 다음으로는 혹명나방 34,112ha(재배면적 대비 4.5%), 벼물바구미 22,802ha(재 배면적 대비 3.0%), 먹노린재 21,118ha(재배면적 대비 2.8%)순 이었다. 평년보다 발생면적이 많았던 해충은 애멸구, 멸강나방, 먹노린재로 애멸구는 평년보다 113%수준, 멸강나방은 평년대비 136% 수준, 먹노린재는 269% 수준이었다. 먹노린재의 발생이 점차 증가하고 있는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 결론적으로 2017년 벼 주요해충의 발생정도는 전년 대비 96% 수준으로 유사하였지만, 평년대비는 56% 수준으로 발생이 낮은 경향임을 확인하였다.

Carbonyl sulfide is a chemical that is registered as a crop protection product in Australia due to microorganisms such as soil, plant roots, branches, fertilizers and compost. In order to develop new fumigants for domestic use, the susceptibility of Carbonyl sulfide fumigants to two agricultural pests was evaluated. The susceptibility of peach aphid and spotted mite, which is an agricultural pest, was evaluated. After 5 hours of treatment (10, 20, 40, 60, and 80 mg / L) . As a result, peach aphid larvae showed a high mortality rate of 97.6% at 10 mg / L and 100% at 20 mg / L or more. Larvae were found to have a rate of 95.8% at 80 mg / L. The insect mortality rate was 91.8% at 60 mg / L and 94.1% at 80 mg / L.

Reproduction is essential for the survival of a species and is under the close coordination of the central nerve system (CNS). In Drosophila melanogaster, juvenile hormones (JHs) from the corpora allatum(CA) are essential for egg-production because they promote vitellogenesis and enhance ecdysteroid biosynthesis. JH biosynthesis is under the control of neuropeptides, such as Drosophila insulin-like peptide (dilp) and allatostatin C (AstC). However, how these neuropeptide pathways coordinate JH production remain elusive. Here, we report a small number of neurons in the brain and ventral nerve cord (VNC) neurons that produce a neuropeptide AstC regulate egg-production negatively. The brain neurons seem to act indirectly by inhibiting secretion of dilp that up-regulates JH production, whereas the VNC neurons seem to release AstC into the hemolymph to suppress the CA activity directly. On the CA, the AstC actions appear mediated by two G-protein coupled receptors, AstC-R1 and AstC-R2. We will discuss our recent efforts to identify agonists for either receptor, which will be potential leads for insect reproduction regulators.

Little consideration has been given to the insect epizootiology in pest management. High production cost of fungalinsecticides might be a technical barrier. Application of the fungal insecticides to unfavorable conditions might result inlower performance in pest management. Herein this work, we suggest ecological biocontrol considering long-term colonizationin nature rather than quick pest control. Fungal biopesticides should be frequently combined with chemical pesticides infields, particualrly spatial combination strategy rather than temporal combination. Additionally other important technicalaspects need to be strongly considered, such as economic downstream process, effective control and environmentally safe,so finally proposing e-biopesticide. Lastly R&D system needs to be clearly and efficiently organized for high performance.Week-based summary and reporting system, weekly report and project file are main system in our laboratory which hasour lab work more effectively and efficiently, consequently resulting in tech-transfer to an industry and re-investment.

The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, and gray mold disease caused by Botrytis cinerea, are importantpest and plant disease. To control these, many people have been relied on chemical methods for a long time. However,their continuous use has resulted in resistance of pest and disease. To surmount or avoid these problems, we evaluatedantifungal activity of the selected fungi with high virulence to mite to explore the potential for the dual control of notonly T. urticae but also B. cinerea. To maximize the use of spores and cultural filtrates, the virulence to mite was evaluatedusing culture products, and effective culture condition was investigated against blastospore production and antifungal activity.Consequently, the 2 fungal isolate selected in this study were confirmed to have diverse potential and would be usedeffectively for dual control agents against the two-spotted spider mite and plant diseases

Through an integration of seasonal climate forecasts (SCF) and rice pest epidemiological models, a potential risk forrice pest epidemics can be predicted even before a cropping season starts. The objective of the study was to developand evaluate an epidemiological “rtdSim” model for tungro, a vector-born rice disease, aiming at predicting a seasonaltungro risk in the Bicol Region of the Philippines. Predicting tungro epidemics requires many components explaining thecomplex nature of the three-cornered pathosystems (virus, vector, and host) and their interactions with environmental variables.The rtdSim model successfully calculated number of rice hills infected with the rice tungro virus through its vector, thegreen leafhopper (GLH). The present study highlights the potential for developing a climate-based early warning systemfor rice pests, thus allowing better decision-making on a seasonal level.

최근 대추에 복숭아유리나방, 사과유리나방 복숭아심식나방이 대추과원에서 발생하고 있으나, 발생 생태에 대한 연구가 미비하여 좀더 효 율적 방제시기를 설정하고자 페로몬 트랩을 이용하여 3년간 발생소장을 조사하였다. 그 결과 복숭아유리나방은 5월부터 10월까지 발생되었으 며, 6월 중순과 9월 중순에 2번의 발생 최성기가 나타내었다. 사과유리나방의 경우 5월부터 10월까지 발생되었으며, 6월 중순 ~ 6월 하순과 9월 중순 ~ 9월 하순에 2번의 발생 최성기를 나타내었다. 하지만 발생 개체수가 많이 않았다. 복숭아심식나방의 경우 5월부터 10월까지 발생이 이루 어졌으며, 7월 중순과 8월 하순 ~ 9월 중순에 2번에 걸쳐 발생 최성기를 나타내었다.

북미지역에서 저장곡물해충으로 잘 알려진 거저리과의 북미쌀거저리[Cynaeus angustus (LeConte)]가 국내 여러 정미소에 발생하고 있음을 새롭게 보고하며, 이 미기록종에 대한 성충과 유충 사진 및 진단형질과 저장산물을 검역하는 과정에서 검출되는 거저리과 해충 17종에 대하여 도해 검색자료를 제공하였다.

이중나선형 RNA (dsRNA)를 이용한 유전자 발현 억제기술이 다양한 생명체에서 기능 유전체학을 연구하는 데 이용되고 있다. 이 기술의 원리는 전사후 단계에서 유전자 발현을 조절하는 RNA 간섭에 기인된다. dsRNA를 이용하여 특정 유전자의 발현 억제는 심각한 치사효과를 줄 수 있다. 이러한 분자기작을 해충 방제에 적용하여 특정 dsRNA를 이용한 새로운 살충제를 개발하고 있다. 본 종설은 dsRNA를 이용한 RNA 간섭 원리를 설명하고 이를 이용한 해충 방제를 구현한 여러 예를 살펴본다. 그리고 해충방제를 실현시키기 위해 현재 이 기술이 담고 있는 한계 를 고찰하고 이에 대한 대응 방안을 본 종설에서 제공하고자 한다.

The Small hive beetle, Aethina tumida (Murray, A. 1867) (commonly abbreviated to SHB), is one of notifiable pest in the world. SHB were confirmed in the southeastern United States in 1998 in a apiary in Florida. The SHB also was found in Korea in 2016. The SHB larvae have relatively large heads and numerous protuberances covering their bodies. Upon full maturation, larvae have reached a length of 10 mm. Adult females are length and width of ± 5.5 mm and ± 3.4 mm. Naturally occurring small hive beetles can vary greatly in size, possibly depending on diet, climate, and other environmental factors. Additionally, we were analyzed the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene of the SHBs. The sequence of the COI gene of SHB was identical to that of SHBs in Korea, but different by fourteen positions from Italy.

국제 무역량 증가와 기후변화에 따라 아열대성 해충이 온대지역으로 침입하는 사례가 늘고 있다. 과실파리과는 초파리과와 더불어 두 과실 파리 분류군 가운 데 하나로 약 5,000 종 이상이 포함되어 있다. Anastrepha, Rhagoletis, Ceratitis 및 Bactrocera 속에 속한 일부 과실파리류가 높 은 침입력으로 여러 온대 지역의 과실과 채소류에 막대한 피해를 일으키고 있다. 본 종설은 이들 과실파리류들의 침입과 정착을 억제하는 기술이 비교적 잘 개발되어 적용된 Bactrocera 속에 속한 해충류를 중심으로 고찰하였다. 이들 과실파리류에 대해 많은 방제 기술이 개발되었지만, 효율 적인 종합해충관리 프로그램 개발이 아직 널리 정착되지 않고 있다. 이에 본 종설은 과실파리를 방제하는 여러 기술을 설명하고, 이 가운데 아열 대 군도에서 실시된 종합해충관리의 성공사례를 소개한다. 아울러 국내에 큰 피해를 주는 주요 과실파리의 발생생태와 방제기술도 정리하였다.