Diapause Regulation and Biological Control of Natural Enemy Insects: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Pest and Vector Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: insect physiology; diapause regulation; mass rearing of natural enemies; biological control; parasitoid; predators
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Interests: biological control; natural enemy; egg parasitoid; Trichogramma; Anastatus; Mesocomys; Chelonus; biological invasion; Spodoptera frugiperda; IPM
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Interests: biological control; parasitoid; endosymboint; Wolbachia; Trichogramma; thelytokous parthenogensis; superparasitism; sex ratio disorders; intraspecific competition; host suitability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
After the success of the earlier Special Issue “Diapause Regulation and Biological Control of Natural Enemy Insects”, we are pleased to launch the Second Edition of this Special Issue. Natural enemy insects are excellent biological control agents for the control of major crop pests and invasive pests. In recent years, countries all around the world have carried out research and used natural enemy insects, which have a good effect on the control of major pests, such as fall armyworms and corn borers.
This Special Issue focuses on the development, regulation, and biological control of natural enemies of insects, sharing the results of basic theoretical and applied evaluation studies.
Prof. Dr. Lisheng Zhang
Prof. Dr. Liansheng Zang
Dr. Jincheng Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biological control
- diapause
- parasitoid
- predators
- egg parasitoid
- mass production
- host suitability
- interspecific competition
- intra-guild predation
- sublethal effect
- ecosystem ecology
- functional ecology
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