Observable and efficient rearing system for wood‐feeding cockroaches
Observable and efficient rearing system for wood‐feeding cockroaches
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可观察且高效的食木蟑螂饲养系统
DOI：
10.1111/ens.12495
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
0.9
通讯作者：
Osaki Haruka
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作者：
篠田あかり;朴俊夏;中野勇人;柴崎哲哉;宮﨑義之;中山二郎;Osaki Haruka
植物分解是森林生态系统的重要组成部分。吃木头的蟑螂负责腐烂的原木的分解。然而，食木蟑螂的生态学还没有得到很好的理解。要了解他们如何分解腐烂的日志在画廊内的日志，有必要观察他们在实验室。在这里，我提出了一个可观察的和成本效益的饲养这些日志分解使用培养皿和人工真菌餐。传统上，培养皿是用来培养真菌或细菌的，而人工真菌粉是一种商业产品，用于甲虫幼虫，这是一种木材分解剂。这让研究人员很容易对付食木蟑螂。在饲养1,000多只食木蟑螂的过程中，我开发了有效的技术，在可观察的系统下饲养它们几年。我将沿着这些技巧，以保持食木蟑螂的健康，并使用摄像机观察它们。这些技术消除了对植物分解者研究的许多限制。当研究人员使用这种可观察的饲养系统时，我们可以轻松地进行饲养实验，并很好地了解食木蟑螂及其相关昆虫的生态学。
Plant decomposition is an essential component of forest ecosystems. Wood‐feeding cockroaches are responsible for the decomposition of rotten logs. However, the ecology of wood‐feeding cockroaches is not well understood. To understand how they decompose rotten logs in the gallery inside the logs, it is necessary to observe them in laboratories. Here, I present an observable and cost‐effective for rearing these log decomposers using a culture dish and an artificial fungal meal. The culture dish is traditionally used to cultivate fungi or bacteria with the lid on. The artificial fungal meal is a commercial product for stage beetle larvae, which are a kind of log decomposers. These let researchers easy to deal with wood‐feeding cockroaches. In the course of keeping over 1,000 individuals of the wood‐feeding cockroaches, I have developed effective techniques to rear them under the observable system for several years. I present these techniques along with several tips to keep the wood‐feeding cockroaches healthy and observe them using video cameras. These techniques remove many of the limitations for study on the plant decomposers. When researchers use this observable rearing system, we can conduct rearing experiments easily and well understand the ecology of wood‐feeding cockroaches and insects associating with them.