Migration and Outbreak Mechanisms of Migratory Pests

Dear Colleagues,

Insects undertake one of nature’s most astonishing journeys—billions of small animals soaring on high-altitude winds, traversing continents in epic migrations across the skies. Yet this awe-inspiring phenomenon also can pose a threat to global food security. Pest species such as desert locust, rice planthopper, and fall armyworm migrations frequently trigger population explosions that impact agricultural production. Understanding the patterns and mechanisms behind these migrations is therefore essential to monitoring, predicting, and managing such outbreak events.

This Special Issue welcomes original research articles and reviews, with potential topics including—but not limited to—population outbreak mechanisms, molecular mechanisms of physiological regulation, and mechanism underlying orientation and navigation behaviors in migratory insect pests.

Prof. Dr. Gao Hu
Dr. Yumeng Wang
Guest Editors

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