Announcements
15 August 2025
Insects | Cover Stories in 2024
1. “Exposure to Cry1 Toxins Increases Long Flight Tendency in Susceptible but Not in Cry1F-Resistant Female Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)”
by Caroline P. De Bortoli, Rafael F. Santos, Giordano J. Assirati, Xiaocun Sun, Lucas Hietala and Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes
Insects 2024, 15(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15010007
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/1/7
2. “De Novo Genome Assembly at Chromosome-Scale of Hermetia illucens (Diptera Stratiomyidae) via PacBio and Omni-C Proximity Ligation Technology”
by Simone Costagli, Linda Abenaim, Giulia Rosini, Barbara Conti and Roberto Giovannoni
Insects 2024, 15(2), 133; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15020133
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/2/133
3. “Flight Dispersal in Supratidal Rockpool Beetles”
by Jorge Plaza-Buendía, Juana María Mirón-Gatón, Antonio José García-Meseguer, Adrián Villastrigo, Andrés Millán and Josefa Velasco
Insects 2024, 15(3), 140; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15030140
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/3/140
4. “Upward and Poleward (but Not Phenological) Shifts in a Forest Tenebrionid Beetle in Response to Global Change in a Mediterranean Area”
by Simone Fattorini
Insects 2024, 15(4), 242; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15040242
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/4/242
5. “Edible Insects in Slavic Culture: Between Tradition and Disgust”
by Agnieszka Orkusz and Martyna Orkusz
Insects 2024, 15(5), 306; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15050306
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/5/306
6. “Susceptibility of Yellow Squash and Zucchini Cultivars to the Sweetpotato Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci Gennadius (MEAM1), in the Southeastern United States”
by George N. Mbata, Yinping Li, Sanower Warsi and Alvin M. Simmons
Insects 2024, 15(6), 429; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15060429
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/6/429
7. “Ultrastructure of the Spermiogenesis in Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae): X-Irradiation and New Insights on the Centriolar Region Organization”
by Francesco Paoli, Massimo Cristofaro, Gerardo Roselli, Raffaele Sasso, Sergio Musmeci, Francesco Barbieri, Chiara Sciandra, Valentina Vanoni, Loris Menegotti, Pio Federico Roversi et al.
Insects 2024, 15(7), 505; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15070505
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/7/505
8. “Exploring Biodiversity through the Lens of Knautia arvensis Pollinators: Knautia Pollinator Walks as a Monitoring Method”
by Markus Franzén and Magnus Stenmark
Insects 2024, 15(8), 563; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15080563
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/8/563
9. “Unveiling Arthropod Responses to Climate Change: A Functional Trait Analysis in Intensive Pastures”
by Sophie Wallon, François Rigal, Catarina D. Melo, Rui B. Elias and Paulo A. V. Borges
Insects 2024, 15(9), 677; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15090677
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/9/677
10. “Species Richness and Similarity of New Zealand Mayfly Communities (Ephemeroptera) Decline with Increasing Latitude and Altitude”
by Stephen R. Pohe, Michael J. Winterbourn and Jon S. Harding
Insects 2024, 15(10), 757; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15100757
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/10/757
11. “Non-Chemical Control of Nymphal Longhorned Tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann 1901 (Acari: Ixodidae), Using Diatomaceous Earth”
by Reuben A. Garshong, David Hidalgo, Loganathan Ponnusamy, David W. Watson and R. Michael Roe
Insects 2024, 15(11), 844; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15110844
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/11/844
12. “Current Status of Biology–Biotechnic, Agronomic, and Biological Control of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus: A Review”
by Waqas Wakil, Maria C. Boukouvala, Nickolas G. Kavallieratos, Constantin S. Filintas, Nikoleta Eleftheriadou, Muhammad Usman Ghazanfar, Muhammad Yasin, Mirza Abdul Qayyum and Pasco B. Avery
Insects 2024, 15(12), 955; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15120955
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/12/955
