著者

高橋 知代 久志本 彩子 小長谷 貴昭 田原 雄一郎

出版者

日本ペストロジー学会

雑誌

ペストロジー (ISSN:18803415)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.21, no.1, pp.1-4, 2006-06-30

参考文献数

7

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Biodegradable packaging buffers made from corn or wheat starch have replaced plastic foambuffers as packaging materials. The German cockroach, Blattella germanica, the smoky-brown cockroach, Periplaneta fuliginosa, and the brown-banded cockroach, P. brunnea consumed the biodegradable packaging buffers as food when they were kept in an arena with water, yet they hesitated to eat a urethane buffer. The cockroaches could survive and most of them could propagate for generations feeding on packaging buffer. Therefore, the biodegradable packaging buffers should be removed from factories immediately to avoid cockroach infestation.