Insects | Notable Papers from the “Other Arthropods and General Topics” Section

1. “Functional Niche Partitioning Occurs over Body Size but Not Nutrient Reserves nor Melanism in a Polar Carabid Beetle along an Altitudinal Gradient”
by Diane Espel, Camille Coux, Luis R. Pertierra, Pauline Eymar-Dauphin, Jonas J. Lembrechts and David Renault
Insects 2023, 14(2), 123; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14020123
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/14/2/123

2. “Host Plant Specificity in Web-Building Spiders”
by Thomas Hesselberg, Kieran M. Boyd, John D. Styrsky and Dumas Gálvez
Insects 2023, 14(3), 229; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14030229
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/14/3/229

3. “A Case for Below-Ground Dispersal? Insights into the Biology, Ecology and Conservation of Blind Cave Spiders in the Genus Troglodiplura (Mygalomorphae: Anamidae)”
by Jessica R. Marsh, Steven J. Milner, Matthew Shaw, Andrew Stempel, Mark S. Harvey and Michael G. Rix
Insects 2023, 14(5), 449; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14050449
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/14/5/449

4. “Life Table Parameters of Tetranychus merganser Boudreaux (Acari: Tetranychidae) on Five Host Plants”
by Ma. Teresa de Jesús Segura-Martínez, Salvador Ordaz-Silva, Agustín Hernández-Juárez, Rapucel Tonantzin Quetzalli Heinz-Castro, Sandra Grisell Mora-Ravelo and Julio César Chacón-Hernández
Insects 2023, 14(5), 473; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14050473
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/14/5/473

5. “Fatal Attraction: Argiope Spiders Lure Male Hemileuca Moth Prey with the Promise of Sex”
by Andrew D. Warren and Paul M. Severns
Insects 2024, 15(1), 53; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15010053
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/1/53

6. “Microbiome of Invasive Tick Species Haemaphysalis longicornis in North Carolina, USA”
by Loganathan Ponnusamy, Nicholas V. Travanty, D. Wes Watson, Steven W. Seagle, Ross M. Boyce and Michael H. Reiskind
Insects 2024, 15(3), 153; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15030153
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/3/153

7. “Do Invasive Jorō Spiders (Trichonephila clavata) from Asia Avoid Eating Unpalatable Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in North America?”
by Andrew K. Davis, Wilson Townsend Morris, Emma Hobbs and Ella Blakely
Insects 2024, 15(5), 309; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15050309
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/5/309

8. “Age and Density of Mated Females Affect Dispersal Strategies in Spider Mite Tetranychus ludeni Zacher”
by Peng Zhou, Xiong Z. He, Chen Chen and Qiao Wang
Insects 2024, 15(6), 387; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15060387
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/6/387

9. “An Effective Fluorescent Marker for Tracking the Dispersal of Small Insects with Field Evidence of Mark–Release–Recapture of Trissolcus japonicus”
by Ryan L. Paul, James R. Hagler, Eric G. Janasov, Nicholas S. McDonald, Saliha Voyvot and Jana C. Lee
Insects 2024, 15(7), 487; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15070487
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/7/487