The Euonymus defoliator moth, Pryeria sinica Moore (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae), is a pest that causes considerable damage to the Euonymus genus, especially Euonymus alatus and Euonymus japonicus. The biological characteristics of P. sinica have been studied in China, Japan, Taiwan, and the United States, but there has been no research conducted on this species in Korea. Also, P. sinica has two dormant phases in each generation, one as eggs in winter and the other as pupae in summer. Our purposes are to study the biological characteristics of Korean populations of P. sinica and to examine the effects of temperature and photoperiod on summer diapause. The biological characteristics were investigated in laboratory conditions (25 ± 1 ℃, 65 ± 1% R.H., 16L:8D) and the number of eggs in an egg mass, developmental periods and mortality rate in each larvae stage, and adults’ life span were determined. The results showed that 190.7 ± 31.64 eggs were contained in one egg mass and it took 25.57 ± 0.61 days from 1st larval stage to the pre-pupal stage. P. sinica has 4 larval stages and each stage took 4.28 ± 0.21, 6.2 ± 0.55, 6.02 ± 0.68, and 8.93 ± 0.88 days. The mortality rate of larvae peaked at 22.5% in 3rd larval stage. The adults’ life span was 4.67 ± 0.97 days in males and 4.61 ± 1.82 days in females. To study summer diapause, we divided pupae into 4 groups. Both low temperature and short daytime were effective in shortening the pupal stage. The pupal stage was the shortest in group D (122.12 ± 1.24 days), in which the initial condition was 25 ℃-16L:8D and the altered condition was 16 ℃ -12L:12D, and the longest in group A (161.92 ± 3.15 days, 25 ℃-16L:8D). These data could be utilized to propose the optimal timing for controlling the population of P. sinica.

옥수수 주 해충인 조명나방(Ostrinia furnacalis)(나비목: 포충나방과)의 비휴면태 단계의 생존과 발육, 생식에 미치는 온도 영향을 분석하였다. 비휴면태 단계는 16:8 h (명:암)의 광주기 조건에서 유지하였다. 미성숙태를 15~35°C 범위의 7개 항온조건에서, 성충을 13~33°C 범위의 8개 항온 조건에서 인공사료로 사육하였다. 알은 적용된 모든 온도에서 생존율이 70% 이상이었으나, 유충은 15°C에서 7.4%의 낮은 생존율을 보였다. 온도가 증가함에 따라 미성숙태의 발육기간은 짧아졌으나, 유충기간은 35°C에서 더 짧아지지 않았다. 번데기 몸무게는 온도 증가에 따라 증가하였는데, 암컷의 무게는 35°C에서 다시 감소하였다. 25°C를 제외한 다른 6개 온도 각각에서 마지막 영기가 다른 개체변이가 관찰되었다. 성충은 적용된 모든 온도 에서 자손을 생산하였다. 성충 수명과 산란전 기간, 산란기간은 온도가 증가함에 따라 감소하는 경향이었고, 산란전 기간은 33°C에서 다시 길어졌다. 총산란수는 22°C와 31°C에서 400개 이상이었다. 산란기간 중 일산란수와 산란일당 일산란수는 온도가 증가함에 따라 많아졌는데, 33°C에서 다시 감소하였다. 성충 나이에 따른 일일 산란수는 우화 초기 급격히 증가하였고 이후 완만히 감소하는 경향이었다. 산란횟수는 22°C에서 가장 많았다고 모의 추정되었다. 선형방정식으로 추정된 최저발육온도는 1령 유충이 9.7°C로 가장 낮았고, 5령~말령 단계가 14.7°C로 가장 높았다.

수원 지방에서 조명나방(Ostrinia furnacalis)(나비목: 포충나방과) 성충 발생횟수와 유충 휴면이 유도되는 시기를 분석하였다. 성충은 일년 에 3회 발생 하였는데, 1화기는 5월 초부터 7월 초까지, 2화기는 7월 초중순부터 8월 초중순까지, 3화기는 8월 중순부터 10월까지이었다. 7월말 부터 8월 중순 사이에 갓부화 유충을 야외에서 사육하기 시작하였을 때, 그 해와 이듬해 용화한 개체들이 같이 발생하였다. 이후 사육된 집단에서 는 모두 월동 유충들만 출현하였다. 야외에서 7월과 8월 중 채집된 유충들에서는 월동하거나 월동하지 않는 개체들이 같이 발생하였고, 이후 채집 된 개체들에서는 모두 월동하는 개체들만 나타났다. 이 결과들은 수원에서 조명나방은 연중 2세대와 3세대를 경과하는 개체들이 같이 발생하는 복합 생활사를 갖는 것을 보였다. 실험실에서, 조명나방 유충을 영기별로 탈피 직후(9시간 이내)에 휴면유도 조건(11:13 시간 = 명:암 광주기, 20°C)에 처음 처리하였을 때, 거의 모든 유충들에서 휴면이 유도되었다. 유사한 처리를 5령으로 탈피한 유충 나이별로 적용하였을 때, 5령 3일과 4일 나이의 유충에 대한 처리에서는 휴면유도율이 감소하였다. 한편 알에서 갓 부화했을 때부터 휴면유도 조건에서 사육하던 유충들을 3령, 4령, 5령 탈피 직후에 비휴면 조건으로 옮겼을 때, 거의 대부분의 유충들은 휴면에 유도되지 않았다. 그 결과로부터 5령 초기 나이의 유충들이 휴면유도 자극에 반응하는 최종 단계라고 추정되었다. 비휴면 유충들에 비해, 휴면이 유도된 유충들에서는 혈림프 내 트레할로스 함량이 증가하였고, 몸체 과냉각점이 낮아졌다.

야외 사육과 성페로몬트랩 조사를 통해 왕담배나방 휴면 유도시기와 연중 발생 세대가 연구되었다. 2013년과 2014년에 갓부화 유충을 수 원 야외에서 사육하였을 때, 8월 하순~10월 상순에 사육을 시작한 집단들에서 휴면용이 생성되었고, 9월 중순 이후 사육 집단에서는 휴면용들만 생성되었다. 2013년 집단의 경우 휴면용들은 이듬해 5월 하순~6월 상순에 우화하였고 2014년 집단의 경우 5월 하순~6월 하순에 우화하였다. 휴면용들만 생성된 집단들에서, 사육을 시작한 날의 일장은 11시간 49분~12시간 24분이었고, 이들이 번데기가 될 때까지 평균온도는 14.8~20.7℃ 이었다. 야외 사육에서 하면은 관찰되지 않았다. 수원과 화성에서 2010년부터 2014년까지 조사한 페로몬 트랩의 성충 발생 시기는 연중 4회(1화기: 4월 하순~6월 중순, 2화기: 6월 중순~7월 하순, 3화기: 7월 중순~8월 하순, 4화기: 8월 하순~10월 중순)으로 조사되었다. 여기에 Mironidis and Savopoulou-Soultani (2008)의 선형발육모델을 적용하였을 때 4세대 출현이 가능한 것으로 분석되었다. 가을철 3세대와 월동세대는 일부 중첩되는 것으로 조사되었다. 왕담배나방은 연중 월동세대 이후 온전한 3세대를 거치고, 휴면용은 3화기와 4화기 성충들의 자손들에서 출현하는 것으로 조사되었다. 마지막으로 4월 말 파종되는 옥수수 포장에서 출사기에서 수확기 사이의 이삭 피해는 1세대와 2세대의 왕담배나방 유충이 피 해를 주는 것으로 고찰되었다.

Bumblebees are important pollinators of crops and wildflowers. Bumblebees generally produce one generation per year. One of the key stages for year-round rearing of bumblebees is breaking diapause. To evaluate the effects of a combination method of CO2-narcosis and cold treatment to break the diapause of B. ignitus and B. terrestris queens, we determined whether this method affected their ability to establish a colony after the diapause break. The diapause treatment regimes that were utilized were CO2(CO2– narcosis), CT-1M(cold treatment at 5°C for 1 month), CT-1M-CO2(CO2–narcosis after cold treatment for 1 month), CT-2M-CO2(CO2–narcosis after cold treatment for 2 months), CT-2M (cold treatment for 2 months), CT-2.5M-CO2(CO2–narcosis after cold treatment for 2.5 months) and CT-2.5M (cold treatment at 5°C for 2.5 months). In view of the effects on the colony developmental characteristics of B. ignitus queens, the most favorable diapause treatment was CT-1M-CO2. A combination method of CO2– narcosis and cold temperature treatment yielded better results than that of single CO2–narcosis or cold temperature treatment on the colony development of diapause-broken B. ignitus queens. In the case of B. terrestris queens, we concluded that a combination method of CO2 and cold temperature treatment yielded better results than that of a single cold-temperature(up to2 months) treatment. In conclusion, the findings of the present study indicated that the combined application of CO2 and cold temperature was a favorable method for the colony development of diapause-broken B. ignitus and B. terrestris queens compared with only CO2–narcosisorcoldtemperaturetreatments. A combination method of CO2 and cold treatment reduced the side effect of CO2–narcosis and shortened the duration of cold treatment by at least 1month.

Trichogramma is widely used in biological control of many Lepidoptera insect pests in the world. Although many species of host eggs, e.g. Sitotroga cerealela, Corcyra cephalonica, Ephestia kuehniella, Mamestra brassicae and even artificial host eggs are explored in mass production of Trichogramma, eggs dissected from the ovaries in female of Chinese (Oak) tussah moth (Antheraea pernyi) are still the most popular host eggs in China. Here I introduce technology processes of Trichogramma mass production that are popularly used in China, including: 1) selecting female cocoons from mixed sexes commercial cocoons, 2) cold storage of cocoons, 3) warming up the cocoons, 4) collecting female moths and dissecting ovaries, 5) separating, washing and drying host eggs, 6) multiplying Trichogramma with the host eggs, 7) producing Trichogramma products, i.e. the host egg cards, 8) storing Trichogramma under low temperatures, 9) releasing Trichogramma in the field. Nevertheless, problems are frequently encountered in these processes, e.g. high mortality of long-term storage and multiplying too many generations etc. To solve these problems and explore a method for long-term storage, we studied the diapause of T. dendrolimi in detail. We found that the optimal processes for diapause induction were exposing hosts for parasitization at 26℃ for 8 h before keeping them at 26℃ for another 40 h, and finally moving them into 10℃ for 4 weeks. The optimal processes for diapause termination were setting the diapause Trichogramma under 1℃ for two months and then exposing them at 26℃ until their emergence.

우리나라 해안지방 해송림에 피해를 주고 있는 솔껍질깍지벌레의 여름휴면현상에 미치는 저온처리의 효과를 알아보기 위하여, 휴면진행시기에 따라 1차, 2차, 3차의 휴면종료실험에 있어 각각 5월 4일, 6월 19일, 8월 15일부터 공시충(1령 약충)을 온도별, 기간별로 저온저장한 후 자연온도 조건에서 사육하며 발육을 관찰하였다. 1차와 2차 실험은 2.5, 5.0, 7.5, 10.0, 12.5, 15.0℃의 각 저온에서 10, 20, 30, 40일간 저장하였으며, 3차 실험은 자연 상태에서 휴면발육(physiogenesis)이 상당히 진행된 시기이므로 동일한 온도조건에서 3, 6, 9, 12일간 저장하였다. 저온기에서 꺼내고 20일이 지난 후부터 각 공시충의 2령 약충으로의 탈피여부를 조사하였으며, 이러한 조사결과를 통하여 본 해충의 여름휴면 중 휴면발육을 가장 촉진시킬 수 있는 온도와 그 완료에 필요한 기간을 규명하였다. 휴면발육을 가장 촉진시키는 온도는 7.5∼10℃이었으며, 이들 온도에서 휴면발육을 완료하기 위해서는 1차실험에서는 40일, 2차실험에서는 20일, 3차실험에서는 6일이 각각 소요되었다. 휴면발육을 위한 발육영점온도는 29℃로 추정되었으며 유효적산온도는 964일도이었다. 이를 근거로 자연온도조건에서의 유효발육온도의 합과 비교하여 추정한 결과 자연상태에서의 휴면발육 완료시기는 9월 8일이었다. 자연상태에서 약충의 50%이상이 2령충으로 탈피한 시키는 11월 9일이였으며, 휴면후 발육(morphogenesis)을 위한 발육영점온도는 10℃로서 유효적산온도는 391일도이었다.

Pollinating insects function significantly in structuring ecosystem as well as agricultural production. Among the variety of pollinators, Osmia cornifrons is one of the important pollinators in apple orchards. Unlike honey bees, O. cornifrons is able to pollinate at low temperature that facilitates its wide commercial use. The female O. cornifrons in nature lay their eggs to the interior of the bamboo reeds where they spend their larval and pupal stage throughout the summer and during fall they overwinter as adult. The adult bee emerges from the overwintering cocoon in the spring seasons. Since the complete synchrony with flowering period is critical, farmers collect and store the dormant state of O. cornifors in cold storage and expose them in due time to outdoor temperatures for their emergence, pollination activity can be performed. However, information on biological and ecological requirements for the emergence of overwintering adults are rarely reported. We carried out the experiments on temperature dependent adult emergence and constructed the emergence model based on developmental rate and distribution. Parameters were estimated from linear model and weibu

Paratlanticus ussuriensis enter prolonged diapause at an egg stage. Environmental conditions, such as temperature, can modify the diapause duration at initial diapause. Eggs enter initial diapause at 20℃, but continued early embryonic development at 30℃. Final diapause at a fully developed embryonic stage is obligatory regardless of temperature conditions. To determine temperature effects on diapause mechanism of P. ussuriensis eggs, we compared weights, DNA and RNA amounts of eggs incubated at either 20℃ or 30℃ for 50 days after oviposition. Both egg weight and total amount of DNA were constant at 20℃ but gradually increased at 30℃. However, total RNA level was rapidly increased at 15 days-old eggs at 30℃ and maintained high levels during further period whereas its level was constant at 20℃. In addition, we identified three heat shock protein 70 (hsp70a, hap70b, hsp70c) genes of P. ussuriensis and determined those expression levels at different temperature conditions. The levels of hsp70a and hsp70b was not detectable until 20 days after oviposition at both temperature conditions, but highly increased at 50 and 60 days when incubated at 30℃. In contrast, hsp70c level was rapidly peaked at 20 days after oviposition, which is the time of initial diapause entrance. Our results suggest that high temperature breakdown initial diapause and a certain hsp gene, such as hsp70c, may involve in the initial diapause mechanism of P. ussuriensis eggs.

The diapause duration P. ussuriensis eggs is known to either one year or prolonged to additional years. This complex life cycle is mainly caused by the interruption at two embryonic stages: early stage (initial diapause) and fully developed late stage (final diapause). The environmental cues, such as temperature, is critical to determine the diapause duration but the precise diapause mechanism of P. ussuriensis eggs is unclear. We demonstrated temperature effects on the entrance of initial diapause. Newly oviposited eggs were incubated at two temperature conditions (20℃and 30℃) for 60 days. When eggs were incubated at 20℃, egg weights were not significantly changed, but at 30℃ those were gradually increased to 1.5 times for 50 days. Genomic DNA contents of eggs were similarly increased at 30℃. Total RNA contents at 30℃ were highly increased from the 15-days-old but not at 20℃. In addition, we further analysed expression levels of two heat shock protein 70 (hsp70a, hap70b) genes during embryonic development. Our results suggest that initial diapause occurred between 10 and 15 days after oviposition and its entrance was blocked by high temperature incubation.

The bean bug, Riptortus pedestris (=clavatus) Fabricius (Hemiptera: Alydidae) is a serious pest of soybean in many countries. It enters a reproductive diapause in the winter by short day length (＜13.5 h.) in Korea and Japan. The combined effects of temperatures (25℃ and 8℃) and day lengths (10L:14D and 14L:10D) upon the termination of the male"s diapause were studied. The combinations are ① HTLD = 25℃, 14L:10D treatment for 1, 2, 3 weeks and 30 days, ② HTSD = 25℃, 10L:14D treatment for 1, 2, and 3 weeks, ③ LTLD→HTLD = 8℃, 14L:10D treatment for 1, 2, and 3 weeks followed by HTLD treatment, ④ LTSD→HTLD = 8℃, 10L:14D treatment for 1, 2, and 3 weeks followed by HTLD. The amount of aggregation pheromone components secreted was adopted as the criteria for diapause termination in males. Males did not secrete aggregation pheromone under HTSD conditions. However, the males treated with HTLD for more than 21 days secreted significantly higher amounts of aggregation components, (E)-2-hexenyl (Z)-3-hexenoate and (E)-2-hexenyl (E)-2-hexenoate, compared to the control or HTSD treatments. The three components of the aggregation pheromone were secreted by the 14%, 29%, and 100% males treated with HTLD for 7 days, respectively. However more than 83% of the HTLD-treated males secreted all three components by the 30<SUP>th</SUP> day under the treatment. In comparison, the pheromone amounts secreted by the males treated with LTLD→HTLD or LTSD→HTLD were equal or less than those secreted by males with continuous HTLD treatment.

The bean bug, Riptortus clavatus Thunberg (Hemiptera: Alydidae), is a pest of soybeans and tree fruits. It enters reproductive diapause during winter. We studied the effect of different combinations of temperature, day length, and treatment period on the termination of diapause in R. clavatus using adult females collected in October and November 2006. Ovarian development was used to determine diapause termination. The treatments were: ① HTLD, 25℃, 14L:10D treatment for 1, 2, 3 weeks and 30 days, ② HTSD, 25℃, 10L:14D treatment for 1, 2, and 3 weeks, ③ LTLD, 8℃, 14L:10D treatment for 1, 2, and 3 weeks followed by HTLD for 3 weeks, and ④ LTSD, 8℃, 10L:14D treatment for 1, 2, and 3 weeks followed by HTLD for 3 weeks. The HTSD treatments did not affect ovarian development, and resulted in no significant difference in the number of mature eggs in ovaries or the percentage of diapause-terminated females compared to the control females before treatment. The percentage of females that terminated diapause was significantly higher in the HTLD treatment than in the HTSD treatment. The HTLD treatment for more than 14 days increased the percentage of diapause-terminated females, accelerated the development of the ovaries, and increased the number of mature eggs in ovaries. Compared with the HTLD or HTSD treatments, the LTLD or LTSD treatments followed by the HTLD treatment accelerated ovarian development and increased the number of ovipositing females. The pre-LTSD treatment for 1 week was enough to increase the number of eggs oviposited.

In order to establish an indoor-rearing system for A. Alcinous, the effect of temperature and pupal diapause was investigated. Temperature has been suggested as an important factor in determining the developmental rate, Lifespan and mortality in invertebrates. As temperature increase, the developmental period was gradually reduced. The developmental period of A. alcinous larvae was 12.9 days and 25.8 days at 30℃ and 20℃, respectively. And we investigated the effect of different chilling days on diapause termination. Under longday condition(LD 16:8h, 20℃) oxygen consumption gradually increase. But oxygen consumption on the first day of pupa was the highest and rapidly fell down the next day and attained lowest point after 7days, with average value of 1.92mol/min/g under shortday condition(LD 8:16h). Diapause pupae were chilled for 60, 75, 90, 105 days at 8℃ and thereafter subjected to LD 16:8h at 25℃. And emergence rate at 60~90days was 57.1~80.7%.

During the last several years, the population of the ussur brown katydid, Paratlanticus ussuriensis has been highly increased at mountain-side orchards in Youngdong province in Korea. Nymphs and adults emerged one time per year from early May to August and cause a serious demage on the crop production. Adults oviposit eggs from July to September under the ground and eggs overwinter at diapause stage. However, the diapause duration P. ussuriensis is known to either one year or prolonged to additional years. The environmental cues, such as temperature, could be a critical to determine the diapause duration but the precise diapause mechanism of P. ussuriensis eggs is unclear. We demonstrated to determine the stage of diapause initiation during embryogenesis. Newly oviposited eggs were incubated for 60 days at two temperature conditions (20℃and 30℃). When the eggs were incubated at 20℃ those weights were not changed, but when they incubated at 30℃ those were increased from 15-days-old. Total RNA contents of eggs incubated at 30℃ were highly increased from the 15-days-old when they compared with those of eggs incubated at 20℃. In addition, total DNA contents of eggs were greatly higher when they incubated at 30℃. Our results suggest that early embryonic development was sensitive to high temperature and it was stimulated at 15-days-old. To determine the temperature response of embryonic development at molecular level we identified heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) gene of P. ussuriensis. Further analysis would conduct the gene expression rate of diapausing eggs on different temperature conditions by using real time RT-PCR technique and determine the molecular characteristics of P. ussuriensis egg diapause.