You are currently on the new version of our website. Access the old version .

Insects, Volume 12, Issue 7

2021 July - 92 articles

Cover Story: In recent years, insecticide trunk injections have been put into practical use for controlling wood-boring pests. However, few studies have investigated the dose–response relationships between insecticides and wood-boring pests in detail. The red-necked longhorn beetle Aromia bungii (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) was originally distributed in China and its surrounding areas, but it invaded Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 2010s and has become a serious threat to stone fruit trees such as peach, plum, and cherry. This study used two trunk injection insecticides containing neonicotinoid compounds, thiamethoxam and dinotefuran, as the active ingredients. Their dose–response relationships with A. bungii larvae were investigated at two different developmental stages, neonates and late instar. View this paper
  • Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
  • You may sign up for email alerts to receive table of contents of newly released issues.
  • PDF is the official format for papers published in both, html and pdf forms. To view the papers in pdf format, click on the "PDF Full-text" link, and use the free Adobe Reader to open them.

Articles (92)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,548 Views
12 Pages

Cannibalism and Necrophagy Promote a Resource Loop and Benefit Larval Development in Insects of Temporary Waters

  • Valentina Mastrantonio,
  • Graziano Crasta,
  • Sandra Urbanelli and
  • Daniele Porretta

20 July 2021

Temporary aquatic habitats are contingent on the allochthonous inputs of plant and animal detritus, whose quality and availability can significantly affect the species developing in these habitats. Although animal detritus (i.e., invertebrate carcass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,808 Views
11 Pages

College Students’ Knowledge of Ticks in Oklahoma: Assessment and Insights

  • Elise Knowlton,
  • Justin L. Talley,
  • Bruce H. Noden and
  • William Wyatt Hoback

20 July 2021

Ticks (Arachnida: Acari) are common in Oklahoma and may transmit tick-borne diseases (TBDs) to people. Due to the difficulty in reducing tick populations, awareness of tick bite prevention, proper tick removal, and knowledge of when to seek medical t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,874 Views
17 Pages

20 July 2021

Meligethes (Odonthogethes) chinensis is a common Chinese phytophagous species in the family Nitidulidae. Its main larval host plant is Rubus idaeus L. (Rosaceae), and adults feed on pollen and other floral parts. In this study, we used scanning elect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,673 Views
12 Pages

20 July 2021

The two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch is a major agricultural pest worldwide and is known to rapidly develop resistance to pesticides. In the present study, we explored a field strain that was collected in 2000 and 2003 and has been ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,848 Views
19 Pages

19 July 2021

We determined 15 complete and two nearly complete mitogenomes of Heptageniidae belonging to three subfamilies (Heptageniinae, Rhithrogeninae, and Ecdyonurinae) and six genera (Afronurus, Epeorus, Leucrocuta, Maccaffertium, Stenacron, and Stenonema)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,036 Views
10 Pages

Intraguild Interactions between the Mealybug Predators Cryptolaemus montrouzieri and Chrysoperla carnea

  • Laura Golsteyn,
  • Hana Mertens,
  • Joachim Audenaert,
  • Ruth Verhoeven,
  • Bruno Gobin and
  • Patrick De Clercq

19 July 2021

The ladybird Cryptolaemus montrouzieri and the green lacewing Chrysoperla carnea have shown potential for use in augmentative biological control of mealybug pests in greenhouse crops. In the context of combining these predators within an integrated p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,477 Views
30 Pages

Investigating Virus–Host Interactions in Cultured Primary Honey Bee Cells

  • Alexander J. McMenamin,
  • Fenali Parekh,
  • Verena Lawrence and
  • Michelle L. Flenniken

17 July 2021

Honey bee (Apis mellifera) health is impacted by viral infections at the colony, individual bee, and cellular levels. To investigate honey bee antiviral defense mechanisms at the cellular level we further developed the use of cultured primary cells,...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
12,741 Views
8 Pages

Kissing Bug Intrusions into Homes in the Southwest United States

  • Stephen A. Klotz,
  • Shannon L. Smith and
  • Justin O. Schmidt

17 July 2021

Kissing bugs readily enter homes in the Sonoran Desert and bite the residents. Their saliva is highly antigenic, causing local and systemic skin reactions and life-threatening anaphylaxis. We attempted to determine what characteristics of homesites m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,880 Views
31 Pages

The Puzzling Falcomurus Mandal (Collembola, Orchesellidae, Heteromurinae): A Review

  • Bruno C. Bellini,
  • Paolla G. C. de Souza and
  • Penelope Greenslade

16 July 2021

Falcomurus Mandal is currently a monotypic genus of Heteromurinae described from India in 2018. Its key characters are the first antennal segment subdivided, the second undivided and the third annulated; the first abdominal segment lacking macrochaet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,452 Views
13 Pages

16 July 2021

With the widespread application of insecticides, parasitoid wasps may also be under risk when exposed to insecticides directly at their free-living stages. The endoparasitoid wasp Meteorus pulchricornis is the predominant natural enemy of many lepido...

of 10

Get Alerted

Add your email address to receive forthcoming issues of this journal.

XFacebookLinkedIn
Insects - ISSN 2075-4450