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Applied Entomology Lab
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A lab that uses mites to explore how predators and prey coexist.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring coexistence between predators and prey.
Associate Professor Yasuyuki Choh of the Applied Entomology Lab studies relationships among organisms, using plants, herbivores, natural enemies, and other organisms as study materials.
The specialty is behavioral ecology. Focusing mainly on mites, the research examines how prey coexist with their predators.
Recent research has reported that blind mites practice brood parasitism using the smell of eggs as a cue, and that sisters guard eggs together when predators are present.
Key terms
- Behavioral ecology
- The study of how the behavior of organisms contributes to their survival and reproduction
- Brood parasitism
- Laying one's own eggs in the nest or egg-laying site of another individual and leaving the care of the offspring to it. The cuckoo is well known for this
- Cooperative protection
- Multiple individuals working together to protect eggs or young from enemies
NewsLab news
Associate Professor Choh and colleagues publish findings on mite brood parasitism guided by egg odor
Associate Professor Choh and colleagues publish findings on mite sisters helping each other to protect eggs
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies interactions between animals and plants and between predators and prey, using plants, herbivores, natural enemies, and other organisms as study materials. The main study subjects are mites.
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The members of the Applied Entomology Lab are faculty and students.
- Associate ProfessorYasuyuki Choh
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Gorse spider mite 01” Tony Wills / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Coexistence of predators and prey: “Pentatomidae predation on Chrysomela populi larva 2026-06 Suedpfalz” InsektenDoku / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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