Urban Entomology and One Health
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 October 2025 | Viewed by 83
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban pest
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Research conducted in the field of urban entomology focuses on understanding the biology of various structural pests and developing, improving, and/or validating new pest management strategies. This research benefits the pest management industry to achieve satisfactory control of structural pests for the protection of public health, property and the environment. Certain aspects of the One Health initiative that emphasize the collective health and wellbeing of humans, animals, and the shared environment closely align with the goals of structural pest management. Therefore, research conducted on structural pests such as ants, bed bugs, cockroaches, termites, filth flies, etc., plays a direct role in achieving and advancing the goals of the One Health initiative.
This Special Issue invites submissions of original research and review articles that either deal with the basic biology of structural pests or applied research that expands the tool kit or options available for safe and effective urban pest management. We also invite submission of articles that explore structural pests in atypical environments (e.g., bed bugs in poultry houses). The overall goal of this Special Issue is to highlight the contributions of urban entomology in promoting and advancing key components of One Health. As such, authors are encouraged to briefly describe the link between their research topic and One Health in the submitted manuscript.
Dr. Ameya D Gondhalekar
Dr. Aaron R. Ashbrook
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- integrated pest management
- physiology
- toxicology
- insecticide resistance
- resistance management
- pest monitoring
- structural pests
- ants
- bed bugs
- cockroaches
- termites
- filth flies
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