Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Insects is now inviting nominations for the Insects 2023 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the field of entomology. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Brian T. Forschler.

The Prize
– CHF 2000;
– Option to publish one paper free of charge in Insects after peer review before the end of 2024;
– An electronic certificate.

Eligibility and Requirements for Candidates
– Must have received their PhD no more than 10 years prior to 31 January 2024;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of entomology;
– Must be nominated by senior scientists.

List of Documents for Nomination
– Detailed curriculum vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule
Open for nomination: 24 April 2023.
Nomination deadline: 31 December 2023.
Winner announcement: 29 February 2024.

How to Submit Nominations
The nominations must be submitted online.

Contact
Mr. Jack Fan
Marketing Specialist
Email: [email protected]

Kind regards,
Insects Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Insects 2023 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2021 from 1 January to 31 December in Insects were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, three winners were selected.

Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) against Aedes Species Mosquitoes: A Roadmap and Good Practice Framework for Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Pilot Field Trials
By Clélia F. Oliva, Mark Q. Benedict, C Matilda Collins, Thierry Baldet, Romeo Bellini, Hervé Bossin, Jérémy Bouyer, Vincent Corbel, Luca Facchinelli, Florence Fouque, Martin Geier, Antonios Michaelakis, David Roiz, Frédéric Simard, Carlos Tur and Louis-Clément Gouagna
Insects 2021, 12(3), 191; doi: 10.3390/insects12030191

Synthetic and Natural Insecticides: Gas, Liquid, Gel and Solid Formulations for Stored-Product and Food-Industry Pest Control
By Vaclav Stejskal, Tomas Vendl, Radek Aulicky and Christos Athanassiou
Insects 2021, 12(7), 590; doi: 10.3390/insects12070590

The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Insect Pests
By Sandra Skendžić, Monika Zovko, Ivana Pajač Živković, Vinko Lešić and Darija Lemić
Insects 2021, 12(5), 440; doi: 10.3390/insects12050440

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Insects 2023 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Insects.

Kind regards,
Insects Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Insects 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Insects Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Insects. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Abraão Almeida Santos
Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Research Interests: integrated pest management; crop protection; agricultural entomology; applied entomology; insect ecology; insect rearing

Dr. Agata Kaczmarek
Witold Stefański Institute of Parasitology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Research Interests: insect immunity; entomopathogenic fungi; apoptosis; mitochondrial disfunction

Dr. Miguel A. García-Martínez
Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias Región Orizaba-Córdoba, Universidad Veracruzana, Peñuela, Mexico
Research Interests: urban ecosystem; urban biodiversity; ants; formicidae; biodiversity; landscape ecology; riparian; insecticides; landscape; community; atta; azadiractin; azadiracta indica; species diversity; pest management

The Prize for Each Winner:
- CHF 500;
- An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Insects in 2023 after peer review;
- An electronic certificate.

Kind regards,
Insects Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Insects 2022 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Adam G. Dolezal.

Dr. Adam G. Dolezal is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States. Dr. Adam G. Dolezal’s research interests are in physiology, genes and behavior and honey bee biology. Dr. Adam G. Dolezal received his PhD in 2012 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 42 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Adam G. Dolezal’s Scopus scientific citations number is 1195 and his Hirsch index is 21. He is clearly a rising star in the field of entomology. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Adam G. Dolezal for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Adam G. Dolezal will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before end of 2023 in Insects after peer review, and an electronic certificate.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Kind regards,
Insects 2022 Young Investigator Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Insects 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2020 in Insects were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, three winners were selected.

Diversity and Global Distribution of Viruses of the Western Honey Bee, Apis mellifera
By Alexis Beaurepaire, Niels Piot, Vincent Doublet, Karina Antunez, Ewan Campbell, Panuwan Chantawannakul, Nor Chejanovsky, Anna Gajda, Matthew Heerman and Delphine Panziera
Insects 2020, 11(4), 239; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11040239

Soil Health and Arthropods: From Complex System to Worthwhile Investigation
By Cristina Menta and Sara Remelli
Insects 2020, 11(1), 54; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11010054

Influence of Temperature on Age-Stage, Two-Sex Life Tables for a Minnesota-Acclimated Population of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Halyomorpha halys)
By Byju N. Govindan and William D. Hutchison
Insects 2020, 11(2), 108; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11020108

Each winner will receive CHF 500, an electronic certificate, and a chance to publish a paper in Insects in 2023 free of charge after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Insects 2022 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Insects.

Kind regards,
Insects Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Insects, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Insects 2022 Travel Award. The award has been granted to Dr. Anna Skourti, who is a PhD student of the Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens; and Dr. Bethanie Pelloquin, a joint PhD student at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Nagasaki University.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were incredibly challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Brian T. Forschler
Editor-in-Chief, Insects

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Insects 2021 SI Best Paper Award. All papers published in the Special Issue “Insect Symbionts: Evolution and Application” in Insects were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, one winner was selected.

Wolbachia’s Deleterious Impact on Aedes aegypti Egg Development: The Potential Role of Nutritional Parasitism
By Megan J. Allman, Johanna E. Fraser, Scott A. Ritchie, D. Albert Joubert, Cameron P. Simmons and Heather A. Flores
Insects 2020, 11(11), 735; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11110735

The winner will receive CHF 500, an electronic certificate, and a chance to publish a paper with publication fees waived in Insects by the end of August 2023.

Please join us in congratulating the winner of the Insects 2021 SI Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Insects.

Kind regards,
Insects Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Insects 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Insects Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers to check manuscripts submitted to Insects. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround can be maintained.

The following three reviewers have been selected on the basis of the number, quality, and timeliness of their review reports (in no particular order):

Dr. Carmelo Peter Bonsignore
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy
Research Interests: insect ecology; pest management; forest entomology; biological control; tritrophic interactions

Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Hoffmann
Animal Ecology I, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Research Interests: entomology; ecology; endocrinology; invertebrate biochemistry and physiology

Prof. Dr. Ivan Milosavljević
Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
Research Interests: biological invasions; invasive species; biological control; IPM; parasitoids; species distribution models; ecological modeling; multivariate analysis; life-table invasion models; temperature; insect development

Each winner will receive a prize of CHF 500, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper in the Insects free of charge in 2022.

Kind regards,
Dr. Brian T. Forschler
Editor-in-Chief, Insects

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Insects 2021 Best Paper Awards. All papers published in 2019 in Insects were considered for the awards. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the three winning papers, which were nominated by the journal’s Award Committee, have been selected.

Articles:

Olfactory Preference of Drosophila suzukii Shifts between Fruit and Fermentation Cues over the Season: Effects of Physiological Status
By: Rik Clymans, Vincent Van Kerckvoorde, Eva Bangels, Wannes Akkermans, Ammar Alhmedi, Patrick De Clercq, Tim Beliën and Dany Bylemans
Insects 2019, 10(7), 200

Telenomus remus, a Candidate Parasitoid for the Biological Control of Spodoptera frugiperda in Africa, is already Present on the Continent
By: Marc Kenis, Hannalene du Plessis, Johnnie Van den Berg, Malick Niango Ba, Georg Goergen, Koffi Eric Kwadjo, Ibrahim Baoua, Tadele Tefera, Alan Buddie, Giovanni Cafà, Lisa Offord, Ivan Rwomushana and Andrew Polaszek
Insects 2019, 10(4), 92

Review:

Symbiotic Plant Biomass Decomposition in Fungus-Growing Termites
By: Rafael R. da Costa, Haofu Hu, Hongjie Li and Michael Poulsen
Insects 2019, 10(4), 87

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Insects 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Awards. The Insects Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Insects. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

The following three reviewers have been awarded the Insects 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Awards (in no particular order):

Dr. Luis Carlos Martínez
Department of General Biology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais 36570-000, Brazil.

Dr. Daniele Sommaggio
(1) Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences—DISTAL, University of Bologna, 42-40127 Bologna, Italy.
(2) Biology Department, University of Padua, Via G. Colombo 3-35131 Padova, Italy.

Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Hoffmann
Animal Ecology I, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany.

Each winner will receive 500 Swiss francs and a certificate, as well as the chance to publish one paper free of charge in Insects after peer review before the end of 2021.

Kind regards,
Dr. Brian T. Forschler
Editor-in-Chief, Insects

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the Insectes 2020 Best Paper Awards, who were chosen by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Brian T. Forschler and Journal’s Award Committee. The recipients of the “Insectes 2020 Best Paper Awards” are as follows:

Article:

Phenotypic Plasticity Promotes Overwintering Survival in A Globally Invasive Crop Pest, Drosophila suzukii

Dara G. Stockton, Anna K. Wallingford and Gregory M. Loeb

Insects 2018, 9(3), 105; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects9030105

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/9/3/105

Review:

Transmission Success of Entomopathogenic Nematodes Used in Pest Control

Sophie Labaude and Christine T. Griffin

Insects 2018, 9(2), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects9020072

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/9/2/72

The winners will each receive a certificate and an additional bonus as follows:

500 CHF + one free publication in Insects before the end of 2021

Please join us in congratulating the winners of Insects 2020 Best Paper Awards. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Insects.

As Editor-in-Chief of Insects, I am pleased to announce the two awardees of the Insects 2017 graduate student/postdoctoral associate travel awards. Dr. Carl Nick Keizer is a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University who will be attending the 2017 Animal Behavior Society Annual meeting in Toronto, Canada and Dr. Charlene Jamison-Scheepers, a postdoctoral fellow at Monash University will be attending the 2017 Ecological Society of America Annual meeting in Portland, USA. We had over 30 very impressive applications and we congratulate our recipients. More information on their programs and the award can be found at the following websites:
http://cnkeiser.wixsite.com/stegodyphus
http://chownlab.com/dr-charlene-janion-scheepers/

The competition for the 2018 Insects Graduate Student/Post-Doc Travel Award will be opened in early September 2017. Please check www.mdpi.com/journal/insects and follow us @Insects_MDPI for more information closer to this date.