katsuraito.bsky.social @katsuraito.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A rough watercolor sketch of a spider mite female and her eggs. It was hard to capture the way she lifts her body to lay eggs. I also forgot to add the eyespots and dorsal setae in gouache. 020
katsuraito.bsky.social @katsuraito.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I had a good time in The XVII International Congress of #Acarology - #ICA2026 000
katsuraito.bsky.social @katsuraito.bsky.social · 06/07/2026A few days ago, we visited Ehime Prefecture to attend a local entomological society meeting. While most presentations focused on insects, the talks on mites and pseudoscorpions by our lab's grad students drew a lot of attention too! 020
katsuraito.bsky.social @katsuraito.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I am looking forward to see you all there. I also will make presentation about what I posted in previous tweets. 020
katsuraito.bsky.social @katsuraito.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Male performance is much harder to estimate than that of females. This seems splendid work! 000
Reposted by katsuraito.bsky.socialRES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 07/03/2026New #OpenAccess work by @katsuraito.bsky.social & M. Yamakawi in #RESPhysEnt finds that #Schizotetranychus mite winter eggs outperform summer eggs at low temperatures in a thermal response trade-off doi.org/10.1111/phen.70037 @wybouw.bsky.social @tbuescher.bsky.social @tobybruce.bsky.social 022
katsuraito.bsky.social @katsuraito.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Our paper is out! Trade‐offs in thermal response: Schizotetranychus brevisetosus winter eggs outperform summer eggs at low temperatures - Yamawaki - Physiological Entomology - Wiley Online Library resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comTrade‐offs in thermal response: Schizotetranychus brevisetosus winter eggs outperform summer eggs at low temperaturesWe investigated maternal effects in Schizotetranychus brevisetosus (Tetranychidae), where females oviposit summer and winter eggs in response to photoperiod on evergreen hosts. Developmental rates o... 021
katsuraito.bsky.social @katsuraito.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Spider mites and psyllid larvae are parasitic or symbiotic via space in the gall. doi.org/10.1007/s104... 050