Abstract: Disclosed are a software for analyzing images of a fertilized egg, the software providing a means for executing a process including: (a) a step of measuring the difference in area between the female pronucleus and the male pronucleus from images of a fertilized egg obtained in a period of 1 to 10 hours before the time of occurrence of male and female pronuclear membrane breakdown as a reference; (b) a step of measuring the difference in are between the female pronucleus and the male pronucleus from images of the fertilized egg obtained immediately before the time of occurrence of male and female pronuclear membrane breakdown as the reference; and (c) a step of storing the measured values of the area difference obtained in the step (a) and the area difference obtained in the step (b), to be readable at any time as needed, and an apparatus incorporating this software.

Abstract: The present invention provides an agent that modulates physiological condition of pests, wherein the agent has an ability to modulate the activity of an insect choline acetyltransferase; a method for assaying pesticidal activity of a test substance, which comprises measuring the activity of a choline acetyltransferase in a reaction system in which the choline acetyltransferase contacts with a test substance, and the like.

Abstract: The present invention provides an agent that modulates physiological condition of pests, wherein the agent has an ability to modulate the activity of an insect choline acetyltransferase; a method for assaying pesticidal activity of a test substance, which comprises measuring the activity of a choline acetyltransferase in a reaction system in which the choline acetyltransferase contacts with a test substance, and the like.

Abstract: The present invention provides: an arthropod pests control composition comprising, as active ingredients, a condensed heterocyclic compound and a diamide compound; a method for controlling arthropod pests which comprises applying effective amounts of a condensed heterocyclic compound and a diamide compound to the arthropod pests or a locus where the arthropod pests inhabit; and so on.

Abstract: The present invention provides: an arthropod pests control composition comprising, as active ingredients, a condensed heterocyclic compound and pyriproxyfen; a method for controlling arthropod pests which comprises applying effective amounts of a condensed heterocyclic compound and pyriproxyfen to the arthropod pests or a locus where the arthropod pests inhabit; and so on.

Abstract: The present invention provides: an arthropod pests control composition comprising, as active ingredients, a condensed heterocyclic compound and a pyrethroid compound; a method for controlling arthropod pests which comprises applying effective amounts of a condensed heterocyclic compound and a pyrethroid compound to the arthropod pests or a locus where the arthropod pests inhabit; and so on.

Abstract: The present invention provides: an arthropod pests control composition comprising, as active ingredients, a condensed heterocyclic compound and a neonicotinoid compound; a method for controlling arthropod pests which comprises applying effective amounts of a condensed heterocyclic compound and a neonicotinoid compound to the arthropod pests or a locus where the arthropod pests inhabit; and so on.

Abstract: The present invention provides an agent that modulates physiological condition of pests, wherein the agent has an ability to modulate the activity of an insect voltage-gated potassium channel; a method for assaying pesticidal activity of a test substance, which comprises measuring the activity of a voltage-gated potassium channel in a reaction system in which the voltage-gated potassium channel contacts with a test substance, and so on.

Abstract: The present invention provides an agent that modulates physiological condition of pests, wherein the agent has an ability to modulate the activity of an insect choline acetyltransferase; a method for assaying pesticidal activity of a test substance, which comprises measuring the activity of a choline acetyltransferase in a reaction system in which the choline acetyltransferase contacts with a test substance, and the like.