2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Basic Study on Behavior Disturbance of Whitefly by Acoustic Means
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21658083
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Agricultural environmental engineering
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
WAKATSUKI Naoto 筑波大学, システム情報系, 准教授 (40294433)
EBIHARA Tadashi 筑波大学, システム情報系, 助教 (80581602)
ISHIII Masahisa 独立行政法人農業・食品産業技術総合研究機構, 農村工学研究所, 主任研究員 (10343766)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | センシング / 施設園芸 / 昆虫 / 農薬 / 音響振動 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research is about a basic study to prevent damage of crop from crop-damaging insect, especially whitefly. To initiate mating behavior, the whitefly communicates each other by acoustic signal of small amplitude. By radiating communication signal to whitefly artificially, disturbance of behavior of whitefly, which results in failure of mating, is expected. We measured the acoustic signal of whitefly for mating and evaluated its characteristics. Then, we radiated the sound of whitefly artificially to whitefly. The obtained results suggest that the radiation of the sound seems to have some effects on whitefly.
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