Publications
| life cycle of the water scorpion, laccotrephes japonensis, in japanese rice fields and a pond. | a laccotrephes japonensis (nepidae: heteroptera) population was studied based upon mark and recapture censuses in order to elucidate the seasonal pattern of habitat utilization in a rice paddy system including an irrigation pond between april and october, in 2006 and 2007. the seasonal pattern of nymphs and adults did not differ markedly between the rice fields and the pond. survival rates of l. japonensis of all stages did not differ between the rice fields and the pond in 2006, but were lower ... | 2010 | 20572788 |
| density-dependent effects of amphibian prey on the growth and survival of an endangered giant water bug. | amphibian predator-insect prey relationships are common in terrestrial habitats, but amphibian larvae are preyed upon by a variety of aquatic hemipterans in aquatic habitats. this paper suggests that the survival of the nymphs of the endangered aquatic hemipteran kirkaldyia (=lethocerus) deyrolli (belostomatidae: heteroptera) is directly and indirectly affected by the abundance of their amphibian larval prey (tadpoles). young nymphs of k. deyrolli mainly feed on tadpoles, regardless of differenc ... | 2011 | 26467823 |