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Insects, Volume 14, Issue 2

February 2023 - 116 articles

Cover Story: Maculinea butterflies are endangered social parasites of Myrmica ants. In late summer, caterpillars abandon their food plants and wait for a Myrmica worker to retrieve them and carry them into the nest. Here, the caterpillars spend 11 months consuming ant brood or being fed by workers; then, they pupate early in summer, and the adults emerge from the ant nest in one month. Our study investigated the spatial relationship between nests parasitized by Maculinea teleius and those unparasitized. The nest size is one of the main factors influencing the parasite's presence inside host nests, but butterfly parasite survival is also affected by the closeness of host ant colonies. Because the parasite distribution changed from even in autumn to clumped in late spring, both the host colonies' features and spatial patterns should be considered when trying to preserve these rare butterflies. View this paper
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Articles (116)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,264 Views
14 Pages

20 February 2023

Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) have a variety of functions, including involvement in the metabolism of exogenous substances and the synthesis and degradation of endogenous substances, which are important for the growth and development of inse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7,307 Views
23 Pages

20 February 2023

Researchers have determined that bioavailable aluminum chloride (AlCl3) may affect honey bee behavior (e.g., foraging patterns and locomotion) and physiology (e.g., abdominal spasms). The purpose of these experiments was to determine if Fiji water re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,095 Views
19 Pages

19 February 2023

The intermediate process between mating and postmating behavioral changes in insects is still poorly known. Here, we studied mating-induced common and sex-specific behavioral and transcriptional changes in both sexes of Spodoptera frugiperda and test...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,051 Views
18 Pages

Effects of Species Invasion and Inundation on the Collembola Community in Coastal Mudflat Wetland from the Perspective of Functional Traits

  • Jing-Yang Li,
  • Yun-Xia Gao,
  • Chun-Yang Li,
  • Ya-Li Jin,
  • Si-Qi Yang,
  • Jian-Hong Xia,
  • Yun-Fei Zhang,
  • Yun Bu and
  • Kai Li

19 February 2023

The group of soil arthropods known as Collembola is characterized by its abundance and sensitivity to environmental changes. They are ideal an species for soil indicators. In order to clarify the effects of species invasion and inundation on the Coll...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,884 Views
26 Pages

Do Patches of Flowering Plants Enhance Insect Pollinators in Apple Orchards?

  • Myrto Barda,
  • Filitsa Karamaouna,
  • Vaya Kati and
  • Dionysios Perdikis

19 February 2023

Apples depend on insect pollination but intensification of agriculture jeopardizes pollination services in agroecosystems. Concerns about the dependency of crop pollination exclusively on honey bees increase the interest in agricultural practices tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,316 Views
18 Pages

From the Lab to the Field: Long-Distance Transport of Sterile Aedes Mosquitoes

  • Hamidou Maïga,
  • Mame Thierno Bakhoum,
  • Wadaka Mamai,
  • Gorgui Diouf,
  • Nanwintoum Séverin Bimbilé Somda,
  • Thomas Wallner,
  • Claudia Martina,
  • Simran Singh Kotla,
  • Odet Bueno Masso and
  • Hanano Yamada
  • + 3 authors

18 February 2023

Pilot programs of the sterile insect technique (SIT) against Aedes aegypti may rely on importing significant and consistent numbers of high-quality sterile males from a distant mass rearing factory. As such, long-distance mass transport of sterile ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,154 Views
13 Pages

Behavioural and Electrophysiological Response of Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera: Tephritidae) to a γ-Lactone Synthetic Semiochemical

  • Lucía Goane,
  • Beatriz N. Carrizo,
  • María Josefina Ruiz,
  • Guillermo E. Bachmann,
  • Fabian H. Milla,
  • Diego F. Segura,
  • Dan Kuzmich,
  • Spencer Walse and
  • María Teresa Vera

18 February 2023

Attractants are a powerful tool for pest management. The lack of specific attractants for the South American fruit fly, Anastrepha fraterculus, a complex of cryptic species of great economic importance in South America, makes it difficult to monitor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,845 Views
15 Pages

18 February 2023

Sphenophorus levis Vaurie, 1978 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). is a difficult to control pest in sugarcane that causes great damage to the subterranean part of the plant. Low insect control is the result of the pesticide application technology adopted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
8,155 Views
19 Pages

Bioconversion of Different Waste Streams of Animal and Vegetal Origin and Manure by Black Soldier Fly Larvae Hermetia illucens L. (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

  • Somaya Naser El Deen,
  • Klaas van Rozen,
  • Hellen Elissen,
  • Piet van Wikselaar,
  • Istvan Fodor,
  • Rommie van der Weide,
  • Elise Federica Hoek-van den Hil,
  • Arya Rezaei Far and
  • Teun Veldkamp

17 February 2023

Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) are considered a commercially viable solution for global organic waste problems. The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of rearing BSFL on a wide range of low-value waste streams and its potential to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,757 Views
16 Pages

17 February 2023

Pollen is an important source of nutrition for bumblebees to survive, reproduce, and raise their offspring. To explore the nutritional requirements for the egg laying and hatching of queenright Bombus breviceps colonies, camellia pollen, oilseed rape...

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