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Insects, Volume 13, Issue 4

2022 April - 87 articles

Cover Story: The mitochondria are key organelles of the eukaryotic cell. Mitochondria supply the power to the muscles that sustains the sheer beauty of butterflies’ flight. Mitochondria have their own genome, usually named mitogenome. The mitogenome of butterflies, same as in most animals, is a double-stranded circular molecule that encodes for 37 genes. The disposition of the genes varies in the mitogenome of butterflies, and ten different genes orders exist, two of them described for the first time in our research. One gene order, named MIQGO, is very widespread, while the remaining one has a limited distribution. We analyzed more than 600 mitogenomes to study the mechanisms generating the different gene orders. We identified the evolutionary pathways, some very complex, that explain the movements of different mitochondrial genes. View this paper
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Articles (87)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,853 Views
17 Pages

18 April 2022

Ants are important because they damage agricultural equipment, including microirrigation systems. The aim of this research was to assess the efficiency of the incorporation of repellents in drip irrigation tubing as a method of protection against ant...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Pest and Vector Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,178 Views
11 Pages

18 April 2022

Autophagy plays diverse roles in the interaction among pathogen, vector, and host. In the plant virus and insect vector system, autophagy can be an antiviral/pro-viral factor to suppress/promote virus propagation and transmission. Here, we report the...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Molecular Biology and Genomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,783 Views
18 Pages

The Early Season Community of Flower-Visiting Arthropods in a High-Altitude Alpine Environment

  • Marco Bonelli,
  • Elena Eustacchio,
  • Daniele Avesani,
  • Verner Michelsen,
  • Mattia Falaschi,
  • Marco Caccianiga,
  • Mauro Gobbi and
  • Morena Casartelli

16 April 2022

In mountain ecosystems, climate change can cause spatiotemporal shifts, impacting the composition of communities and altering fundamental biotic interactions, such as those involving flower-visiting arthropods. On of the main problems in assessing th...

(This article belongs to the Collection Insects in Mountain Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,026 Views
12 Pages

15 April 2022

The authors elucidated the relationship between temperature and mortality due to food competition in ant communities in forests. A field experiment was conducted using four bait types at six different oak forest sites with different mean annual tempe...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Ecology, Diversity and Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,514 Views
12 Pages

Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Responses in Cotton Plant to Apolygus lucorum Infestation

  • Han Chen,
  • Honghua Su,
  • Shuai Zhang,
  • Tianxing Jing,
  • Zhe Liu and
  • Yizhong Yang

15 April 2022

With the wide-scale adoption of transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton, Apolygus lucorum (Meyer-Dür) has become the most serious pest and has caused extensive yield loss in cotton production. However, little is known about the defense response...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Pest and Vector Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,555 Views
13 Pages

15 April 2022

Spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura), is a worldwide quarantine pest that is currently undergoing a rapid range expansion in the Americas, Europe, and parts of Africa. It feeds and breeds on soft-skinned fruits such as raspberries,...

(This article belongs to the Collection Balancing Nature: Biological Control Introductions for Invasive Insect Pests and Weeds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,886 Views
18 Pages

14 April 2022

Larval diet significantly affects adult traits, although less is known about how they affect reproductive traits. Males of West Indian sweet potato weevil Euscepes postfasciatus deliver a remating inhibitor along with sperm to their mates during mati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Insect Reproductive Biology)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,904 Views
12 Pages

14 April 2022

The reference transcriptome for Cimex hemipterus (tropical bed bug) was assembled de novo in this study, and differential expression analysis was conducted between blood-fed and starved tropical bed bug. A total of 24,609 transcripts were assembled,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Insect Bioinformatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,128 Views
11 Pages

The Influence of Planting Periods on Herbivore and Natural Enemy Abundance on Yellow Sticky Traps in Bt Maize Fields

  • Gemma Clemente Orta,
  • Hugo Alejandro Álvarez,
  • Filipe Madeira and
  • Ramon Albajes

14 April 2022

Knowledge of the insect densities during crop development is necessary for adopting appropriate measures for the control of insect pests and minimizing yield losses. Within integrated pest management programs, crop rotation has been carried out in re...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Ecology, Diversity and Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,873 Views
10 Pages

Seed Dispersal by Ants in Three Early-Flowering Plants

  • Pavol Prokop,
  • Jana Fančovičová and
  • Zuzana Hlúšková

14 April 2022

Interactions between ants and plants vary from being occasionally beneficial to neutral and negative. Ant-mediated dispersal of obligatory myrmecochorous plants is considered mutualistic interaction, providing benefits to plants in terms of seed disp...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Insects and Apiculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,244 Views
11 Pages

13 April 2022

Helicoverpa armigera is a serious agricultural pest with polyphagous diets, widespread distribution, and causing severe damage. Among sixty-five candidate ORs in H. armigera, the co-receptor HarmOrco and three specific ORs with partial sequences were...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Physiology of Insect Olfaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,210 Views
16 Pages

CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Mutagenesis of Abdominal-A and Ultrabithorax in the Asian Corn Borer, Ostrinia furnacalis

  • Honglun Bi,
  • Austin Merchant,
  • Junwen Gu,
  • Xiaowei Li,
  • Xuguo Zhou and
  • Qi Zhang

13 April 2022

(1) Background: Abdominal-A (Abd-A) and Ultrabithorax (Ubx) are homeotic genes that determine the identity and morphology of the thorax and abdomen in insects. The Asian corn borer, Ostrinia furnacalis (Guenée) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), is a d...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Molecular Biology and Genomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,080 Views
12 Pages

New Fossil Xyelidae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) from the Mesozoic of Northeastern China

  • Liyang Dai,
  • Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn,
  • Chungkun Shih,
  • Mei Wang and
  • Dong Ren

13 April 2022

One new genus and species, Leptoxyela eximia gen. et sp. nov., and one new species, Scleroxyela cephalota sp. nov., are described and illustrated based on two well-preserved compression fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation and the Middl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fossil Insects: From Carboniferous to Quaternary)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,473 Views
14 Pages

Genetic Variability of Polypedilum (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Southwest Ecuador

  • Isabel Ballesteros,
  • Mishell Bravo-Castro,
  • Santiago Villamarín-Cortez,
  • Gabriela Jijón,
  • Narcís Prat,
  • Blanca Ríos-Touma and
  • Christian Villamarín

13 April 2022

Chironomids show a wide distribution and can occupy several habitats due to their high adaptive capacity in different freshwater environments. The genus Polypedilum is found along a wide elevational and environmental gradient in the neotropics, and i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diptera Diversity in Space and Time)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,180 Views
13 Pages

13 April 2022

Here, we aimed to produce a natural food preservative using a crude extract from edible, immunized Tenebrio molitor larvae (iTME), injected with edible bacteria using an edible solvent. Results showed that iTME had concentration-dependent inhibitory...

(This article belongs to the Section Role of Insects in Human Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,467 Views
15 Pages

Improving Widescale Monitoring of Ectoparasite Presence in Northern Canadian Wildlife with the Aid of Citizen Science

  • Emily S. Chenery,
  • Maud Henaff,
  • Kristenn Magnusson,
  • N. Jane Harms,
  • Nicholas E. Mandrak and
  • Péter K. Molnár

12 April 2022

Sampling hides from harvested animals is commonly used for passive monitoring of ectoparasites on wildlife hosts, but often relies heavily on community engagement to obtain spatially and temporally consistent samples. Surveillance of winter ticks (De...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Citizen Science Approaches to Vector Surveillance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,683 Views
9 Pages

Effectiveness of a New Self-Marking Technique in Aedes aegypti under Laboratory Conditions

  • Gorgui Diouf,
  • Momar Talla Seck,
  • Assane Guèye Fall,
  • Mireille Djimangali Bassène,
  • Biram Biteye,
  • Mame Thierno Bakhoum and
  • Mamadou Ciss

12 April 2022

In the implementation of mosquito control strategy programs using Sterile Insect Technique and other rear and release strategies, knowledge on the dispersion, competitiveness and survival of mosquitos is considered essential. To assess these paramete...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mosquito Handling, Transport, Release and Male Trapping Methods)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,889 Views
10 Pages

Characterization of Two Novel Insect-Specific Viruses Discovered in the Green Leafhopper, Cicadella viridis

  • Li-Li Li,
  • Zhuang-Xin Ye,
  • Jian-Ping Chen,
  • Chuan-Xi Zhang,
  • Hai-Jian Huang and
  • Jun-Min Li

12 April 2022

Insect-specific viruses (ISV) are one of the most promising agents for the biological control of insects. The green leafhopper, Cicadella viridis (Linnaeus), is an significant pest in agriculture, and causes economic losses to fruit trees, willows, a...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Pest and Vector Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,203 Views
13 Pages

Assessing the Impact of Insecticide Resistance on Vector Competence: A Review

  • Alan E. Juache-Villagrana,
  • Victoria Pando-Robles,
  • Selene M. Garcia-Luna,
  • Gustavo Ponce-Garcia,
  • Ildefonso Fernandez-Salas,
  • Beatriz Lopez-Monroy,
  • Iram P. Rodriguez-Sanchez and
  • Adriana E. Flores

12 April 2022

The primary strategy to avoid adverse impacts from insect-mediated pathogen transmission is the chemical control of vector populations through insecticides; its continued use has led to insecticide resistance and unknown consequences on vector compet...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Pest and Vector Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
9,334 Views
18 Pages

11 April 2022

Interactions between insects and their microbiota affect insect behaviour and evolution. When specific microorganisms are provided as a dietary supplement, insect reproduction, food conversion and growth are enhanced and health is improved in cases o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Insect–Pathogen Interactions in Mass-Reared Insects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,462 Views
13 Pages

The Effect of Cold Periods on the Biological Cycle of Marchalina hellenica

  • Spiros D. Dafnis,
  • Sofia Gounari,
  • Chris E. Zotos and
  • George K. Papadopoulos

11 April 2022

Climate change is considered a major factor affecting honeybees’ behavior and productivity with major consequences in both honey and agricultural production. Many research studies have expressed serious concerns about the mass losses of bee colonies...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Ecology, Diversity and Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,162 Views
11 Pages

11 April 2022

Diaphorina citri is the mainly transmitting vector of the citrus huanglongbing pathogen, which causes severe losses in in the citrus industry. In this study, we isolated a new entomopathogenic fungus, identified as member of Cordyceps fumosorosea bas...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Pest and Vector Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,143 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Host Plants on Bacterial Community Structure in Larvae Midgut of Spodoptera frugiperda

  • Ya-Ping Chen,
  • Ya-Hong Li,
  • Zhong-Xiang Sun,
  • E-Wei Du,
  • Zhi-Hui Lu,
  • Hao Li and
  • Fu-Rong Gui

11 April 2022

The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, is one of the most important invasive species and causes great damage to various host crops in China. In this study, the diversity and function of gut bacteria in the 5th instar larvae of FAW fed on mai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Fall Armyworm Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,765 Views
15 Pages

9 April 2022

Culicoides midges play an important role in vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) transmission to US livestock. After VSV-blood feeding, blood digestion followed by oviposition occurs while ingested virus particles replicate and disseminate to salivary gl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Environmental Changes on Insects Behavior, Physiology and Biochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,429 Views
20 Pages

Effects of Thiamethoxam-Dressed Oilseed Rape Seeds and Nosema ceranae on Colonies of Apis mellifera iberiensis, L. under Field Conditions of Central Spain. Is Hormesis Playing a Role?

  • Elena Alonso-Prados,
  • Amelia Virginia González-Porto,
  • Carlos García-Villarubia,
  • José Antonio López-Pérez,
  • Silvia Valverde,
  • José Bernal,
  • Raquel Martín-Hernández and
  • Mariano Higes

9 April 2022

To study the influence of thiamethoxam exposure on colony strength and pathogen prevalence, an apiary (5 colonies) was placed in front of a plot sown with winter oilseed rape (wOSR), just before the flowering phase. Before sowing, the seeds were trea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impact of Environmental Factors and Management Practices on Bee Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,113 Views
13 Pages

9 April 2022

Spiders and their webs are often used as model organisms to study a wide range of behaviours. However, these behavioural studies are often carried out in the laboratory, and the few field studies usually result in large amounts of video footage and s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spider Ecology and Behaviour)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,399 Views
20 Pages

Exploring Cold Hardiness within a Butterfly Clade: Supercooling Ability and Polyol Profiles in European Satyrinae

  • Pavel Vrba,
  • Alena Sucháčková Bartoňová,
  • Miloš Andres,
  • Oldřich Nedvěd,
  • Petr Šimek and
  • Martin Konvička

9 April 2022

The cold hardiness of overwintering stages affects the distribution of temperate and cold-zone insects. Studies on Erebia, a species-rich cold-zone butterfly genus, detected unexpected diversity of cold hardiness traits. We expanded our investigation...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Physiology, Reproduction and Development)
  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,358 Views
20 Pages

Enantiomeric Discrimination in Insects: The Role of OBPs and ORs

  • Cassie Sims,
  • Michael A. Birkett and
  • David M. Withall

8 April 2022

Olfaction is a complex recognition process that is critical for chemical communication in insects. Though some insect species are capable of discrimination between compounds that are structurally similar, little is understood about how this high leve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Physiology of Insect Olfaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,755 Views
20 Pages

What Drives Caterpillar Guilds on a Tree: Enemy Pressure, Leaf or Tree Growth, Genetic Traits, or Phylogenetic Neighbourhood?

  • Freerk Molleman,
  • Urszula Walczak,
  • Iwona Melosik,
  • Edward Baraniak,
  • Łukasz Piosik and
  • Andreas Prinzing

8 April 2022

Communities of herbivorous insects on individual host trees may be driven by processes ranging from ongoing development via recent microevolution to ancient phylogeny, but the relative importance of these processes and whether they operate via trophi...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Ecology, Diversity and Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,483 Views
11 Pages

8 April 2022

The lesser mealworm, Alphitobius diaperinus (Panzer) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) is an important stored-product pest for the poultry industry as it is a vector of dangerous pathogens for humans. In the present study, we evaluated the short- and long-...

(This article belongs to the Collection Stored-Product Pests: Biology, Ecology, Behavior and Integrated Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,627 Views
12 Pages

8 April 2022

In the United States, beet armyworm resistance to both chlorantraniliprole and bifenthrin insecticides was first reported in 2020. Here we examined beet armyworm fitness and stability of resistance to chlorantraniliprole and pyrethroid insecticides s...

(This article belongs to the Topic Integrated Pest Management of Crops)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,545 Views
15 Pages

7 April 2022

We used Illumina sequencing of the 16S rDNA V3-V4 region to identify the bacterial community in laboratory-reared G. gratiosa feces across different developmental stages (1st–7th instar nymph day 0, and 0-, 7-, 14-, and 21-day adult) and sexes....

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Molecular Biology and Genomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,671 Views
19 Pages

Chromosome Comparisons of Australian Scaptodrosophila Species

  • Ann Jacob Stocker,
  • Michele Schiffer,
  • Eduardo Gorab and
  • Ary Hoffmann

7 April 2022

The Scaptodrosophila represent a diverse group of Diptera closely related to Drosophila. Although they have radiated extensively in Australia, they have been the focus of few studies. Here, we characterized the karyotypes of 12 Scaptodrosophila speci...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Molecular Biology and Genomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,844 Views
9 Pages

7 April 2022

The control of Bactrocera oleae is fundamental to decreasing the significant production loss in olive cultivation. However, traditional containment based on the use of synthetic insecticides has been encountering serious limitations due to their nega...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Pest and Vector Management)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,067 Views
14 Pages

7 April 2022

The cosmopolitan euaesthetine genus, Edaphus Motschulsky, 1857, with about 90 Palaearctic species, was formerly known by a single species, E. koreanus Puthz, 2011, of which 2 specimens were collected in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. In t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beetle Diversity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,640 Views
15 Pages

Assessing Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) for Evaluation of Aedes aegypti Population Age Structure

  • Teresa Joy,
  • Minhao Chen,
  • Joshua Arnbrister,
  • Daniel Williamson,
  • Shujuan Li,
  • Shakunthala Nair,
  • Maureen Brophy,
  • Valerie Madera Garcia,
  • Kathleen Walker and
  • Michael A. Riehle
  • + 3 authors

7 April 2022

Given that older Aedes aegypti (L.) mosquitoes typically pose the greatest risk of pathogen transmission, the capacity to age grade wild Ae. aegypti mosquito populations would be a valuable tool in monitoring the potential risk of arboviral transmiss...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Pest and Vector Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,467 Views
28 Pages

The Symbiotic Fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus (Möller) Singer (Agaricales, Agaricaceae) as a Target Organism to Control Leaf-Cutting Ants

  • Sean Araújo,
  • Janaína Seibert,
  • Ana Ruani,
  • Ricardo Alcántara-de la Cruz,
  • Artur Cruz,
  • Alana Pereira,
  • Doraí Zandonai,
  • Moacir Forim,
  • Maria Fátima Silva and
  • João Fernandes
  • + 1 author

6 April 2022

Atta and Acromyrmex are the main genera of leaf-cutting ants present in North and South America, causing extensive damage to agroforestry. Control of the ants requires high handling costs with few effective methods available to decrease the losses. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Pest and Vector Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,153 Views
23 Pages

Macrostructural Evolution of the Mitogenome of Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)

  • Di Liu,
  • Andrea Basso,
  • Massimiliano Babbucci,
  • Tomaso Patarnello and
  • Enrico Negrisolo

6 April 2022

The mitogenome of the species belonging to the Papilionodea (Lepidoptera) is a double stranded circular molecule containing the 37 genes shared by Metazoa. Eight mitochondrial gene orders are known in the Papilionoidea. MIQGO is the plesiomorphic gen...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Systematics, Phylogeny and Evolution)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,498 Views
12 Pages

Aflatoxin B1 Metabolism of Reared Alphitobius diaperinus in Different Life-Stages

  • Nathan Meijer,
  • Rosalie Nijssen,
  • Marlou Bosch,
  • Ed Boers and
  • H. J. van der Fels-Klerx

6 April 2022

The presence of carcinogenic aflatoxins in food and feed is a major issue. In prior studies, aflatoxin B1 (AfB1) and known primary metabolites were absent from Lesser Mealworm (LMW, Alphitobius diaperinus) reared on contaminated diets. LMW is a promi...

(This article belongs to the Section Medical and Livestock Entomology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,562 Views
18 Pages

Investigation of Metabolic Resistance to Soybean Aphid (Aphis glycines Matsumura) Feeding in Soybean Cultivars

  • Ian M. Scott,
  • Tim McDowell,
  • Justin B. Renaud,
  • Sophie W. Krolikowski,
  • Ling Chen and
  • Sangeeta Dhaubhadel

5 April 2022

Soybean aphid (Aphis glycines) is a major soybean (Glycine max) herbivore pest in many soybean growing regions. High numbers of aphids on soybean can cause severe reductions in yield. The management of soybean aphids includes monitoring, insecticide...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Molecular Biology and Genomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,745 Views
13 Pages

Physiological and Population Responses of Nilaparvata lugens after Feeding on Drought-Stressed Rice

  • Xinyan Liang,
  • Lin Chen,
  • Xiaoying Lan,
  • Guangrong Liao,
  • Ling Feng,
  • Jitong Li,
  • Wenyan Fan,
  • Shuang Wang and
  • Jinglan Liu

5 April 2022

Drought stress greatly impacts insect development and population growth. Some studies have demonstrated increased reproductive capacity in drought-stressed insects; however, physiological changes in the brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (St...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Environmental Changes on Insects Behavior, Physiology and Biochemistry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,329 Views
12 Pages

2 April 2022

Insects use olfaction to detect ecologically relevant chemicals in their environment. To maintain useful responses over a variety of stimuli, olfactory receptor neurons are desensitized to prolonged or high concentrations of stimuli. Depending on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Physiology of Insect Olfaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,335 Views
18 Pages

2 April 2022

Chitin is a major component of the arthropod exoskeleton, always working together with chitin-binding proteins to maintain the functions of extracellular structures. In the present study, we identified a cuticle protein 64 from Diaphorina citri using...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Molecular Biology and Genomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,925 Views
17 Pages

Field Trapping and Flight Capacity of Eucosma giganteana (Riley) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Response to Behaviorally Active Congeneric Semiochemicals in Novel Silflower Agroecosystems

  • Kaitlyn P. Ruiz,
  • Alexander Bruce,
  • Nervah E. Chérémond,
  • Chase A. Stratton,
  • Ebony G. Murrell,
  • Samantha Gillette and
  • William R. Morrison

1 April 2022

Silphium integrifolium is a novel perennial crop being developed for oilseed and biofuel in the midwestern US. One of the primary pests in this system is Eucosma giganteana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Little is known about the chemical ecology or fli...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Behavior and Pathology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,772 Views
9 Pages

Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae): What Relationships with and Morpho-Physiological Effects on the Plants It Develops on?

  • Alessia Farina,
  • Antonio C. Barbera,
  • Giovanni Leonardi,
  • Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza,
  • Pompeo Suma and
  • Carmelo Rapisarda

1 April 2022

Although many crops have developed several adaptation mechanisms that allow them to defend against limiting factors, some biotic and abiotic stresses may cause reversible or irreversible changes in plants. Among the biotic stresses, the whitefly Bemi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Insect-Plant Interactions in Agricultural Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,299 Views
25 Pages

New Data on the Occurrence of Scarabaeoid Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) in Montenegro

  • Adam Byk,
  • Marek Bidas,
  • Tomasz Gazurek,
  • Dawid Marczak,
  • Łukasz Minkina and
  • Sebastian Tylkowski

1 April 2022

The Montenegrin fauna of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea is not satisfactorily studied. This is evidenced by the small number of species from this superfamily reported from Montenegro, despite the richness of the country’s habitats, especially hi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beetle Diversity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,365 Views
13 Pages

31 March 2022

Japanese giant silkworm (JGS), Caligula japonica Moore, is an emerging defoliator pest of forest and fruit trees in East Asia, causing severe economic losses. To develop a cost-effective biological control program against JGS, we used eggs of the Chi...

(This article belongs to the Collection Balancing Nature: Biological Control Introductions for Invasive Insect Pests and Weeds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,501 Views
15 Pages

Comparison of Ground Release and Drone-Mediated Aerial Release of Aedes aegypti Sterile Males in Southern Mexico: Efficacy and Challenges

  • Carlos F. Marina,
  • Pablo Liedo,
  • J. Guillermo Bond,
  • Adriana R. Osorio,
  • Javier Valle,
  • Roberto Angulo-Kladt,
  • Yeudiel Gómez-Simuta,
  • Ildefonso Fernández-Salas,
  • Ariane Dor and
  • Trevor Williams

31 March 2022

Sterile males of Aedes aegypti were released once a week for 8 weeks to evaluate the dispersal efficiency of ground and aerial drone release methods in a rural village of 26 Ha in southern Mexico. Indoor and outdoor BG-Sentinel traps were placed in 1...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mosquito Handling, Transport, Release and Male Trapping Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,193 Views
18 Pages

Impact of the Timing and Use of an Insecticide on Arthropods in Cover-Crop-Corn Systems

  • Gabriela Inveninato Carmona,
  • Emily Robinson,
  • Julia Nogueira Duarte Campos and
  • Anthony Justin McMechan

31 March 2022

Cover crops provide a habitat for pests and beneficial arthropods. Unexpected pest pressure in a cover-crop-to-corn system can occur and result in increased use of insecticides. Eight site-years of on-farm field studies were conducted in 2019, 2020,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Insect-Plant Interactions in Agricultural Applications)
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31 March 2022

Most large rivers in South Korea run through major cities, which often experience many environmental problems, including outbreaks of non-biting midges (Diptera: Chironomidae). However, chironomid species inhabiting large rivers have not been thoroug...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Ecology, Diversity and Conservation)

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