Ecological Entomology

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecological Entomology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Nesting habitat of ground‐nesting bees: a review91
Urbanisation drivers and underlying mechanisms of terrestrial insect diversity loss in cities72
Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation62
Cascading extinctions as a hidden driver of insect decline47
Geographical, temporal and taxonomic biases in insect GBIF data on biodiversity and extinction44
Do non‐native plants contribute to insect declines?43
Stable isotope ecology in insects: a review33
Money spider dietary choice in pre‐ and post‐harvest cereal crops using metabarcoding31
Some considerations on the terminology applied to dung beetle functional groups27
Low moisture stress influences plant volatile emissions affecting herbivore interactions in tomato, Solanum lycopersicum21
Microbes make the meal: oligolectic bees require microbes within their host pollen to thrive19
Potential range expansion and niche shift of the invasive Hyphantria cunea between native and invasive countries19
Bidirectional plant‐mediated interactions between rhizobacteria and shoot‐feeding herbivorous insects: a community ecology perspective19
Plant water stress intensity mediates aphid host choice and feeding behaviour18
Sunflower pollen reduces a gut pathogen in worker and queen but not male bumble bees18
Forests do not limit bumble bee foraging movements in a montane meadow complex17
Pollen composition significantly impacts the development and survival of the native small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata17
Host repertoires and changing insect–plant interactions17
Novel evidence for systemic induction of silicon defences in cucumber following attack by a global insect herbivore15
Predator pheromone elicits a temporally dependent non‐consumptive effect in prey15
Changes in land use affect dung beetle communities but do not affect ecosystem services in the Cerrado of Central Brazil14
Spatio‐temporal responses of butterflies to global warming on a Mediterranean island over two decades13
Companion planting to attract pollinators increases the yield and quality of strawberry fruit in gardens and allotments12
Flies on vacation: evidence for the migration of Australian Syrphidae (Diptera)12
Reciprocal microbiome transplants differentially rescue fitness in two syntopic dung beetle sister species (Scarabaeidae: Onthophagus)12
Traits reveal ecological strategies driving carrion insect community assembly12
Functional resin use in solitary bees12
Mutualism is not restricted to tree‐killing bark beetles and fungi: the ecological stoichiometry of secondary bark beetles, fungi, and a scavenger12
Dung beetle trophic ecology: are we misunderstanding resources attraction?11
Negative effects of urbanisation on the physical condition of an endemic dung beetle from a neotropical hotspot11
Evaluating intraspecific variation in insect trait analysis11
Thermal tolerance regulates foraging behaviour of ants10
Effects of predation pressure and prey density on short‐term indirect interactions between two prey species that share a common predator10
Testing effects of invasive fire ants and disturbance on ant communities of the longleaf pine ecosystem10
Largest on earth: Discovery of a new type of fairy circle in Angola supports a termite origin10
Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy10
Functional responses to anthropogenic disturbance and the importance of selected traits: A study case using dung beetles10
Switching roles from antagonist to mutualist: a harvester ant as a key seed disperser of a myrmecochorous plant10
Habitat disturbance modifies dominance, coexistence, and competitive interactions in tropical ant communities10
What to do if streams go dry? Behaviour of Balkan Goldenring (Cordulegaster heros, Odonata) larvae in a simulated drought experiment in SW Hungary9
Gallers as leaf rollers: ecosystem engineering in a tropical system and its effects on arthropod biodiversity9
Intraspecific interference between native parasitoids modified by a non‐native parasitoid and its consequence on population dynamics9
Preference, performance, and impact of the water‐lily aphid on multiple species of duckweed9
Determinants of Delphacidae richness and endemism in China9
Larviposition site selection mediated by volatile semiochemicals in Glossina palpalis gambiensis9
Adaptive plasticity in wing melanisation of a montane butterfly across a Himalayan elevational gradient8
Insect predation reduces the abundance of a nidicolous ectoparasite8
The effect of parasite density on host colonisation success by a mobile avian ectoparasite8
How many cooperators are too many? Foundress number, reproduction and sex ratio in a quasi‐social parasitoid8
Using trapped drones to assess the density of honey bee colonies: a simulation and empirical study to evaluate the accuracy of the method8
The benefits of intraguild predation for a top predator spider8
The roles of phenotypic plasticity and adaptation in morphology and performance of an invasive species in a novel environment8
Different groups of ground‐dwelling spiders share similar trophic niches in temperate forests8
Species associations in arthropod ectoparasite infracommunities are spatially and temporally variable and affected by environmental factors8
Strong impacts of smoke polluted air demonstrated on the flight behaviour of the painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui L.)8
Role of ants as dispersers of native and exotic seeds in an understudied dryland8
Ivermectin impacts on dung beetle diversity and their ecological functions in two distinct Brazilian ecosystems8
Facial area and hairiness of pollinators visiting semi‐natural grassland wild plants predict their facial pollen load8
Termite salinity tolerance and potential for transoceanic dispersal through rafting8
Effects of large herbivore grazing on grasshopper behaviour and abundance in a meadow steppe8
The puzzle of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) and their association with plants containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids8
Invasive paper wasps have strong cascading effects on the host plant of monarch butterflies8
Rapid photogrammetry of morphological traits of free‐ranging moths7
Wild bee functional diversity and plant associations in native and conventional plant nurseries7
The upper thermal tolerance for a Texas population of the hairy maggot blow fly Chrysomya rufifacies Macquart (Diptera: Calliphoridae)7
Dung or carrion? Sex and age determine resource attraction in dung beetles7
Low‐temperature tolerance in coprophagic beetle species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): implications for ecological services7
Differential flight responses of two ambrosia beetles to ethanol as indicators of invasion biology: the case with Kuroshio shot hole borer (Euwallacea kuroshio) and fruit‐tree pinhole borer (7
Bottom‐up and top‐down forces in plant‐gall relationships: testing the hypotheses of resource concentration, associational resistance, and host fitness reduction7
Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) seek sodium at carrion baits in Costa Rica7
Temporal and dietary niche is context‐dependent in tropical ants7
Exploring the homogeneity of terrestrial subterranean communities at a local spatial scale7
Chemical convergence between a guild of facultative myrmecophilous caterpillars and host plants7
Is elevation a strong environmental filter? Combining taxonomy, functional traits and phylogeny of butterflies in a tropical mountain7
Metabolic cost of holding nuptial food gifts for male spiders7
Between locality variations in the seasonal patterns of dung beetles: the role of phenology in mitigating global warming effects7
Probing the role of propagule pressure, stochasticity, and Allee effects on invasion success using experimental introductions of a biological control agent7
Conservatism and stability of the symbiotic system of the invasive alien treehopper Stictocephala bisonia (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Membracidae)7
Management actions shape dung beetle community structure and functional traits in restored tallgrass prairie7
Seasonal changes in arthropod diversity patterns along an Alpine elevation gradient7
Spatial partitioning of perching on plants by tropical dung beetles depends on body size and leaf characteristics: a sit‐and‐wait strategy for food location6
Eating versus heating: a study of the allocation of workers between foraging and nest incubation in bumble bees6
Floral resource continuity boosts bumble bee colony performance relative to variable floral resources6
Changes in phenology and abundance of suction‐trapped Diptera from a farmland site in the UK over four decades6
Predation and avoidance behaviour in aphid‐ladybird interactions of native and invasive ladybirds in Europe6
Experimental field test of the influence of generalist stingless bees (Meliponini) on the topology of a bee–flower mutualistic network in the tropics6
Massive spider web aggregations in South American grasslands after flooding6
Dung beetles can sow: the potential of secondary seed dispersers to assist ecological restoration6
Defence variation within a guild of aphid‐tending ants explains aphid population growth6
Effects of light and nutrients on intraspecific competition among midges from a shallow eutrophic lake6
On the role of direct sunlight for egg‐laying behaviour: lessons and ideas from the Speckled wood6
Do Apis and non‐Apis bees provide a similar contribution to crop production with different levels of pollination dependency? A review using meta‐analysis6
Exposure to nectar‐realistic sugar concentrations negatively impacts the ability of the trypanosome parasite (Crithidia bombi) to infect its bumblebee host6
Dung beetles as hydrological engineers: effects of tunnelling on soil infiltration6
Pollen analysis of cavity‐nesting bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) and their food webs in a city6
Parasitoid pressure does not elicit defensive polyphenism in the green peach aphid6
The use of volatile cues in recognition of kin eggs by predatory mites6
Agonistic responses to potential co‐foundresses in a cooperatively brooding quasi‐social parasitoid6
Using network ecology to understand and mitigate long‐term insect declines6
Morphological matching and phenological overlap promote niche partitioning and shape a mutualistic plant–hawkmoth network6
Ant attendance does not necessarily imply protection of aphids from their arthropod natural enemies6
Bee‐associated fungi mediate effects of fungicides on bumble bees6
Cannibalism and potential predation in larval drosophilids6
Summer drought affects abundance of grassland grasshoppers differently along an elevation gradient6
Assessment of the biocontrol effects of three aromatic plants on multiple trophic levels of the arthropod community in an agroforestry ecosystem5
Friend and foe? The effects of grassland management on global patterns of spider diversity5
A test of the competitive ability–cold tolerance trade‐off hypothesis in seasonally breeding beetles5
Neutral and niche‐based factors simultaneously drive seed and invertebrate removal by red harvester ants5
Proboscis curling in a pollinator causes extensive pollen movement and loss5
Insect diversity over 36 years at a protected Sierra Nevada (California) site: towards an evaluation of the insect apocalypse hypothesis5
Testing the migration syndrome: Comparative fecundity of migratory and non‐migratory nymphaline butterflies5
Invasive intraguild predators: Evidence of their effects, not assumptions5
Feeding patterns revealed host partitioning in a community of frog‐biting mosquitoes5
Short‐term positive effects of wildfire on diurnal insects and pollen transport in a Mediterranean ecosystem5
Isotope evidence for latitudinal migrations of the dragonfly Sympetrum fonscolombii (Odonata: Libellulidae) in Middle Asia5
Ant preference for seeds without awns increases removal of exotic relative to native grass seeds5
Towards more intimacy: moderate elevation of temperature drives increases in foraging and mutualistic interactions between Lasius niger and Aphis fabae5
Body size, metabolic rate and diapause in the oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis), in two extreme climatic regions5
Differential survival and dispersal of avian feather mites with contrasting host specificities5
Foragers of the stingless bee Plebeia droryana inform nestmates about the direction, but not the distance to food sources5
Differing non‐linear, lagged effects of temperature and precipitation on an insect herbivore and its host plant5
Increasing temperature reduces cuticular melanism and immunity to fungal infection in a migratory insect5
Intraspecific variation in host plant traits mediates taxonomic and functional composition of local insect herbivore communities5
How climate change affects the occurrence of a second generation in the univoltine Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae)5
Predation yields greater population performance: what are the contributions of density‐ and trait‐mediated effects?5
Core‐marginal dynamics interact with sex and temperature to influence morphology of the rapidly expanding invasive kudzu bug (Megacopta cribraria)5
Movements and occurrence in two closely related fritillary species5
Microclimate in hollow trees and how it affects an inhabiting beetle species,Osmoderma eremita5
Variability in activity differs between castes in the ant Linepithema humile5
Species co‐occurrences in ectoparasite infracommunities: Accounting for confounding factors associated with space, time, and host community composition4
Warming is here: using locomotor performance to infer thermal parameters and vulnerability for an endemic Argentinean tarantula Grammostola vachoni4
Elevational boundaries influence richness patterns at large spatial scales evinced by madicolous insects of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest4
Re‐evaluation of a method used to study nutritional effects on bumble bees4
Research networks should improve connectivity for halting freshwater insect extinctions4
What drives gallers and parasitoids interacting on a host plant? A network approach revealing morphological coupling as the main factor4
Carabid adaptation to a collembolan diet: hunting efficiency and nutritional value4
Consistent shift in nutritional ecology of ants reveals trophic flexibility across alpine tree‐line ecotones4
The effect of urbanisation and seasonality on wild bee abundance, body size and foraging efforts4
Response of dung beetle taxonomic and functional diversity to livestock grazing in an arid ecosystem4
Exploring the power of moth samples to reveal community patterns along shallow ecological gradients4
Carry‐over effects of larval food stress on adult energetics and life history in a nectar‐feeding butterfly4
Ratios rather than concentrations of nutritionally important elements may shape honey bee preferences for ‘dirty water’4
Wariness to colour patterns: birds versus European red‐and‐black insects4
Cold tolerance and winter survival of seasonally‐acclimatised second‐instar larvae of the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana4
Multi‐species occupancy models: an effective and flexible framework for studies of insect communities4
The specialist of a specialist: the natural history of the predispersal seed predator weevil Hemicolpus abdominalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)4
Environmental drivers of ant dominance in a tropical rainforest canopy at different spatial scales4
A citizen science project reveals contrasting latitudinal gradients of wing deformity and parasite infection of monarch butterflies in New Zealand4
Centris pallida(Hymenoptera: Apidae) male body size decreases across five decades4
Essential but invisible: non‐apparent but widespread ant nests favour soil nutrients and plant growth in semi‐arid areas4
Ant nest distribution and richness have opposite effects on a Neotropical plant with extrafloral nectaries4
Differential thermal tolerance across life stages under extreme high temperatures crossed with feeding status in corn leaf aphid4
Low‐temperature physiology of climatically distinct south African populations of the biological control agent Neochetina eichhorniae4
High temperature and soil moisture reduce host‐plant quality for an insect herbivore4
Volatiles from the fungus Fusarium oxysporum affect interactions of Brassica rapa plants with root herbivores4
Alteration of free amino acid concentrations in insect galls induced by Andricus mukaigawae (Hymenoptera; Cynipidae)4
Not all matrix habitat is created equal for rare bee species in forest habitat4
Blacklegged tick population synchrony between oak forest and non‐oak forest4
Discordant pattern between realised and fundamental saline niches in two supralittoral Ochthebius species (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)4
Ants climb plants because they cannot swim: ant presence on flowers during the flood season reduces the frequency of floral visitors4
More than meets the eye: decrypting diversity reveals hidden interaction specificity between frogs and frog‐biting midges4
Phenology of feeding preference in post‐diapause Baltimore checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton) caterpillars4
Synthesis and perspectives on the study of ant‐plant interaction networks: A global overview4
Habitat loss and degradation due to farming intensification modify the floral visitor assemblages of a semiarid keystone shrub4
Longer daylengths associated with poleward range shifts accelerate aphid extinction by parasitoid wasps4
Homing ability in a tropical Asian stingless bee is influenced by interaction between release distances and urbanisation4
The effect of temperature and behaviour on the interaction between two dragonfly larvae species within the native and expanded range3
Fly disturbance suppresses aphid population growth3
Environmental stressors alter multiple determinants of individual reproductive output in the acid‐tolerant mayfly Leptophlebia vespertina3
The structure and importance of nest mounds in a tropical ant Diacamma indicum3
Elevational environmental stress modulating species cohabitation in nests of a social insect3
Trait‐based characterisation of parasitoid wasp communities in natural and agricultural areas3
Insect‐plant‐fungus interactions in mycorrhizal associations, with a focus on spittlebugs and ectomycorrhizal host plants3
On the influence of environmental factors on the oviposition activity of necrophagous flies3
Differential ecophysiological syndromes explain the partition of the thermal niche resource in coexisting Eucraniini dung beetles3
Developmental temperature predicts body size, flight, and pollen load in a widespread butterfly3
Bloodmeal‐stealing in wild‐caught Mepraia spinolai (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), a sylvatic vector of Trypanosoma cruzi3
Environmental and evolutionary factors favouring the coexistence of sarcosaprophagous Calliphoridae species competing for animal necromass3
No water, no eggs: insights from a warming outdoor mesocosm experiment3
Ant species but not trait diversity increases at the edges: insights from a micro‐scale gradient in a semi‐natural Mediterranean ecosystem3
Floral bagging differentially affects handling behaviours and single‐visit pollen deposition by honey bees and native bees3
Gut content metabarcoding of three widespread Iberian ant‐eating spiders reveals specialisation on the same abundant harvester ants3
Seasonal fluctuation of groundwater level influences local litter‐dwelling ant richness, composition, and colonization in the Amazon rainforest3
A higher taxonomic richness does not ensure the functional resilience of saproxylic beetle communities in evergreenQuercusforests3
Trophic ecology of the arboreal and ground ant communities in forests and savannas of central Brazil3
Parasitoids affect plant responses through their host Pieris brassicae, but not for the benefit of their own performance3
Effects of female body size and age and male mating status on male combat in Anastatus disparis (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae)3
Cuticular hydrocarbon variation among Rhagoletis fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae): implications for premating reproductive isolation and ecological speciation3
Inferring insect feeding patterns from sugar profiles: a comparison of statistical methods3
Host‐choice by a specialist folivore reflects trade‐offs between foliage quality and parasitism risks3
Contrasting effects of nitrogen fertiliser application on the performance of closely related grasshoppers through changes in plant nutrient concentrations3
Light alters activity but does not disturb tandem coordination of termite mating pairs3
Individual‐resource network between Xylocopa bees and plant resources: generalist species, specialist individuals?3
Phenological and isotopic evidence for migration as a life history strategy in Aeshna canadensis (family: Aeshnidae) dragonflies3
Bagworm decorations are an anti‐predatory structure3
Community structure and antifungal activity of actinobacteria in a fungus‐growing termite3
Coexistence of two termite‐eating specialists (Araneae)3
Gregariousness affects performance and defensive reactions in swallowtail caterpillars3
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mediate how plant herbivory history influences herbivore performance3
Host patch quality increases parasitoid locomotor activity despite risk of egg limitation3
Insect pollinators show constancy for different flower traits between the most‐ and less‐preferred plants: a case study of the long‐proboscid tangle‐veined fly3
Specialization and performance trade‐offs across hosts in cactophilic Drosophila species3
Adult monarch butterflies show high tolerance to neonicotinoid insecticides3
Cold adaptation across the elevation gradient in an alpine butterfly species complex3
Elevational variation in voltinism demonstrates climatic adaptation in the dark bush‐cricket3
Psyllid honeydew as a Bombus food source in the boreal landscape3
Aestivation as a response to climate change: the Great Banded Grayling Brintesia circe in Central Europe3
Temperature and host plant species affect the performance and immunocompetence of an outbreak defoliator in northwestern Patagonia3
Ecological assembly rules on arthropod community inhabiting mistletoes3
Where to overwinter: burrows of medium‐sized carnivores as winter places for invertebrates in temperate environment3
Quantifying the post‐fire recovery of taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles in the Brazilian Pantanal3
Diverging facets of grassland ant diversity along a Mediterranean elevational gradient3
Metacommunity structure analysis reveals nested patterns in deconstructed macroinvertebrates assemblages3
Chronic sublethal pesticide exposure affects brood production, morphology and endosymbionts, but not immunity in the ant, Cardiocondyla obscurior2
The introduced oak Quercus rubra and acorn‐associated arthropods in Europe: An opportunity for both carpophagous insects and their ant predators2
Social but not solitary bee abundance tracks pollen protein accumulation in forest canopy gaps2
Plant‐caterpillar food web: Integrating leaf stoichiometry and phylogeny2
Assessing how changes in temporal resource quality influence the reproductive performance of the dung beetle Onthophagus binodis2
Differential movement and activity patterns of sexes in a biparental beetle during the reproductive season2
No evidence of modulation of indirect plant resistance of Brassica rapa plants by volatiles from soil‐borne fungi2
Fast species diversification among dragonflies (Anisoptera: Odonata: Insecta) inhabiting lentic environments regardless of wing pigmentation2
Sexual conflict and the evolution of monandry: The case of the damselfly Ischnura hastata (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) in the Galápagos Islands2
Variations in calling behaviour of wing dimorphic male crickets2
Bees provide pollination service to Campsis radicans (Bignoniaceae), a primarily ornithophilous trumpet flowering vine2
Species‐specific responses to warming alter community composition2
Lava crickets (Caconemobius spp.) on Hawai'i Island: first colonisers or persisters in extreme habitats?2
Aridity could have driven the local extinction of a common and multivoltine butterfly2
Aggregative oviposition varies with density in processionary moths—Implications for insect outbreak propensity2
Assumed effects of invasive intraguild predators and how to avoid the snowball effect of unsupported expectations2
Experimental viral spillover can harmBombus terrestrisworkers under field conditions2
Mechanisms of succession between two Silphidae, Necrophila japonica and Nicrophorus concolor on small vertebrate carcasses2
Myrmecochorous plants and their ant seed dispersers through successional stages in temperate cove forests2
Correlates of Odonata species composition in Amazonian streams depend on dissimilarity coefficient and oviposition strategy2
Invasion of the coccinellid community associated with a tropical annual agroecosystem2
Genetic mixing facilitates adaptation to a novel environmental constraint2
The population dynamics of the yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on a tropical island in Malaysia2
Spiders follow an ideal free distribution based on traits of the plant community2
Diverging effects of geographic distance and local habitat quality on the genetic characteristics of three butterfly species2
Insect extinction: introduction to special issue2
Effects of hillside aspect, landscape features, and kleptoparasitism on the reproductive success of the solitary bee Osmia caerulescens2
Gregarious caterpillars shorten their larval development time in response to simulated predation threat2
Vicariance and ecological adaptation drive genetic and morphological diversification of a widely distributed bug, Carbula crassiventris (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), in South China2
Peace, sweet peace: ants become less aggressive when carbohydrates abound2
Using stable isotopes (δ2H, δ13C) to identify natal origins and larval host plant use by western bean cutworm, Striacosta albicosta (Le2
Microbial volatiles and succession of beetles on small carrion2
Early social experience, rather than kinship affecting aggression in an egg parasitoid wasp, Anastatus disparis (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae), that exhibits extreme male–male combat behaviour2
Microclimatic edge effects in a fragmented forest: disentangling the drivers of ecological processes in plant‐leafminer‐parasitoid food webs2
Propagule pressure rather than population growth determines colonisation ability: a case study using two phytophagous mite species differing in their invasive potential2
Increase in humidity widens heat tolerance range of tropical Ceratosolen fig wasps2
Micro‐climate correlations and conserved sexual dimorphism of cuticular hydrocarbons in European populations of the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis2
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