Surveillance and Management of Invasive Insects
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 2025 | Viewed by 415
Special Issue Editor
Interests: insect ecology; insect-microbe interactions; risk assessment; biological control; invasive ants; invasive mealybugs; weevils
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Invasive alien species can have severe impacts on ecosystems, economies, and human health. Insects, comprising the majority of invasive animals, have caused numerous invasion events globally. They require close surveillance and effective management to slow their spread and mitigate potential impacts.
Surveillance, i.e., post-border surveys to detect the presence of newly arrived non-native populations, is crucial for the effective management and eradication of these populations. To date, a number of effective surveillance tools have been available and have traditionally been used for the detection of certain invasive insects, such as traps that are baited with sex pheromones, aggregation pheromones, or host compounds. Moreover, along with the advances in research on insects/plants’ biology and interspecific interactions and increased uses of techniques from other fields to manage pests (e.g., AI and IT), novel surveillance and control techniques have been under development. The current Special Issue focuses on the most recently developed techniques and systems. Its scope also includes traditional surveillance and control techniques that are applied with a new strategy, as well as analyses of the factors that restrict their implementation efficiency or success. Finally, this Special Issue will present new findings on invasive insects’ ecology and biology that potentially support the development of novel surveillance/control approaches, such as those that are generated based on insect–host interactions and insect–microbe symbiosis.
Prof. Dr. Mingxing Jiang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- invasive insects
- early detection
- surveillance methods
- risk analysis
- quarantine measures
- eradication
- sustainable control
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