Electronic Monitoring of Insects

Dear colleagues,

Electronics are quickly evolving and underpin innovation in every area of science. Electronics offer new tools that enable new and more accurate methods to be developed and applied. As a consequence, researchers are now able to address more sophisticated science questions and evolve our understanding about complex relationships within ecosystems.

This Special Issue will publish peer-reviewed, original, high-quality articles covering the design, development, deployment, and innovative application of electronic devices to monitor insects. The focus is on technologies that have enhanced our scientific understanding of insect behaviour.

Electronic devices include RFIDs, harmonic radars, QR codes, cameras, microphones, lasers, spectrometers and other electronic devices to enhance the monitoring of insects and gain unique insights into their behaviour and interaction with the environment. We are particularly interested in clever combinations of technologies (e.g., solar cells, GNSS, RFIDs and low-bandwidth telecommunications, and third-party data such as weather stations) which provide new data to be gathered at a relatively low cost. The methods and rationale of a particular combination are crucial to its reproducibility and expected to be covered in the submitted articles. We also accept articles covering data format, metadata, interoperability and sensor-model integration, as long as they are associated with laboratory or field experiments using electronics.

High-quality review articles reporting the strengths and limitations of the electronic monitoring of insects, and proposing future, evidence-based trends in the field will be considered.

We encourage potential authors to contact the editor if they would like to discuss a submission idea.

Prof. Dr. Paulo de Souza
Prof. Dr. Elaine C. M. da Silva Zacarin
Prof. Dr. Rogerio Hartung Toppa
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Insects is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.