Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Insects 2019 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
The authors will receive an award of 500 CHF and an opportunity to publish one paper free of charge in
Insects in 2021, after the normal peer review procedure. We believe the above papers represent valuable contributions to
Insects and the scientific literature. We warmly congratulate the winners.
Insects 2019 Best Paper Award
Eligibility and Requirements
– All papers published in Insects will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
Winner
Open AccessReview
Mosquito-Borne Diseases and Their Control Strategies: An Overview Focused on Green Synthesized Plant-Based Metallic Nanoparticles
by
Hudson Onen, Miryam M. Luzala, Stephen Kigozi, Rebecca M. Sikumbili, Claude-Josué K. Muanga, Eunice N. Zola, Sébastien N. Wendji, Aristote B. Buya, Aiste Balciunaitiene, Jonas Viškelis, Martha A. Kaddumukasa and Patrick B. Memvanga
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Brian T. Forschler
Chairman
University of Georgia
Dr. Changlu Wang
Rutgers University
Dr. António Onofre Soares
University of the Azores
Winner
Open AccessArticle
Integrating Global Citizen Science Platforms to Enable Next-Generation Surveillance of Invasive and Vector Mosquitoes
by
Ryan M. Carney, Connor Mapes, Russanne D. Low, Alex Long, Anne Bowser, David Durieux, Karlene Rivera, Berj Dekramanjian, Frederic Bartumeus, Daniel Guerrero, Carrie E. Seltzer, Farhat Azam, Sriram Chellappan and John R. B. Palmer
Award Committee
Prof. Brian Forschler
Chairman
University of Georgia
Dr. Emma Despland
Concordia University
Prof. Patrizia Falabella
University of Basilicata
Dr. Olivia Louise Reynolds
Susentom
Winner
Louis-Clément Gouagna
Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs : Écologie, Génétique, Évolution et Contrôledisabled, Montpellier, France
Vaclav Stejskal
Research Institute of Crop Production, Prague, Czech Republic
Sandra Skendžić
Department of Agricultural Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetosimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia