Current Opinion in Insect Science

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	161
Decoding sex differences: how GABA shapes Drosophila behavior	82
Population dynamics and drivers of the eastern monarch (Danaus plexippus) across its full annual cycle: a cross-scale synthesis of a model migratory species	67
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling	52
Dynamics and evolution of transposable elements in mosquito genomes	50
Origin of eusociality in termites: was genetic monogamy essential?	48
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?	46
Viviparity and obligate blood feeding: tsetse flies as a unique research system to study climate change	45
Sex determination gene Doublesex in hemimetabolous insects	37
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly	37
Leveraging sex determination systems for genetic biocontrol of dipteran pests	37
Facing the flames: insect responses to megafires and changing fire regimes	37
Untangling plastic responses to combined thermal and dietary stress in insects	35
Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate	32
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Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: an integrative view	29
Floral nectar and honeydew microbial diversity and their role in biocontrol of insect pests and pollination	29
Environmentally responsive reproduction: neuroendocrine signalling and the evolution of eusociality	29
Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest geometrid outbreaks	28
Tick chemosensation and implications for novel control strategies	28
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Aedes-borne viral disease transmission: vector dynamics, plasticity, and prospects for control	27
Parasitoid speciation and diversification	26
Mosquito sex determination: recent advances and applications	26
Editorial overview: Global change biology (2023) — Novel perspectives on futures, mechanisms, and the human element of insect conservation in the Anthropocene	26
Genomics of insect natural enemies in agroecosystems	26

Experimental platforms for functional genomics in ticks	26
The evolution of queen competitions to boost productivity	25
To Repel the Red Imported Fire Ant: A Review of Progress, Limitations, and Prospects	25
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Editorial overview: Spotlight on monarch butterflies: A treasure trove of biology to preserve	24
The neuroecology of olfaction in bees	24
Large-scale omics analyses of nutrition-responsive mechanisms of female germline stem cell proliferation and maintenance in Drosophila melanogaster	24
An integrative genomic toolkit for studying the genetic, evolutionary, and molecular underpinnings of eusociality in insects	23
Acylsugar-mediated resistance as part of a multilayered defense against thrips, orthotospoviruses, and beyond	23
Neuroanatomy of blood-feeding arthropods	23
Climate change, temperature extremes, and impacts on hyperparasitoids	22
MicroRNAs in the developmental toolbox — a comparative approach to understanding their role in regulating insect development	22
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How many times to molt? Endocrine control of moltinism in lepidopteran insects	21
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Recent advances in agroecological research for increasing scope of areawide pest management of arthropods in cropping systems	21
Evolution of visual system specialization in predatory arthropods	20
Repetitive DNAs: the ‘invisible’ regulators of insect adaptation and speciation	20
Metabolic command centers in Drosophila: how the fat body and oenocytes orchestrate immunity, reproduction, and aging	20
Flipping indirect defense: chemical cues from natural enemies mediate multitrophic interactions	20
Induced plant resistance and its influence on natural enemy use of plant-derived foods	20
Post-transcriptional regulation of behavior plasticity in social insects	20
Plasticity of the olfactory behaviors in Bactrocera dorsalis under various physiological states and environmental conditions	19
Climate change and pesticide resistance: a synthesis on emerging mechanisms and evolutionary dynamics	19
Metabolomics as a tool to elucidate biochemical cold adaptation in insects	19
The monarch butterfly in Mexico: a conservation model	19
Investigating the role of chemical ecology in plant-pathogen, vector, and secondary consumer interactions and their consequences for integrated pest management	19
The effects of urbanisation on ecological interactions	18
Regulation of insect cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis	18
A call to arms: novel strategies for thrips and tospovirus control	18
Editorial overview: How do social insects know their tasks?	18
Cold-induced immune activation in chill-susceptible insects	17
Vibration receptor organs in the insect leg: neuroanatomical diversity and functional principles	17
Foe to frenemy: predacious ant nest beetles use multiple strategies to fully integrate into ant nests	17
Honeydew management to promote biological control	17
Endocrine-disrupting effects of contaminants on communication and behaviors of insects: from molecular effects to ecological consequences	17
Community change and population outbreak of grasshoppers driven by climate change	17
Insect olfactory neurons: receptors, development, and function	17
Microbial, genetic, and urban drivers of ant invasions	17
Recent advances on hormones and behavior in vertebrates: inspiration for and from invertebrate science	17
Editorial overview: Insecticide resistance mechanisms — from behavior and physiology to microbiome science	16
The self as part of the sensory ecology: how behavior affects sensation from the inside out	16
Prospects for application of population genetics for control of tsetse flies in Africa	16
Evolution of Odonata: genomic insights	16
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Insects and microbes: best friends from the nursery	15
Beyond the static lab: environmental variability in genetically modified mosquito target gene identification for malaria control	15
Anticipating evolutionary responses of mosquito mating systems to population suppression with mass-reared males	15
Insect visual perception and pest control: opportunities and challenges	14

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Mosquito floral visitation and pollination	14
Where do all the pests go? Understanding the genomic mechanisms of crop pest dynamics during the off-season	14
Editorial overview: Classical, novel and underrated regulators of development in the omics era	14
The role of insulin and octopamine in regulating energy homeostasis and locomotion in insects	14
Pathogen within-host dynamics and disease outcome: what can we learn from insect studies?	13
Taste adaptations in blood-feeding arthropods: mechanisms and ecological implications	13
New insight into molecular mechanisms underlying division of labor in honeybees	13
Editorial overview: Chemical ecology of multitrophic interactions: Current research and potential applications	13
Beyond the bite: how mosquito salivary proteins modulate midgut biology and malaria parasite transmission	13
Insect–microbiome interactions in a changing world	13
Extracting spatial information from temporal odor patterns: insights from insects	13
Behavioral, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying caterpillar-ant symbioses	13
Monocot crop–aphid interactions: plant resilience and aphid adaptation	12
Phenomenon of reproductive plasticity in ants	12
Global change and adaptive biosecurity: managing current and emerging Aleurocanthus woglumi threats to Europe	12
Biogenic amines in honey bee cognition: neurochemical pathways and stress impacts	12
Chemical ecology of nectar–mosquito interactions: recent advances and future directions	12
Advances in data-collection tools and analytics for crop pest and disease management	12
Gene editing in agricultural, health, and veterinary pest arthropods: recent advances	12
Heat stress and host–parasitoid interactions: lessons and opportunities in a changing climate	12
Collective decision-making during reproduction in social insects: a conceptual model for queen supersedure in honey bees (Apis mellifera)	11
TGF-β-dependent regulation of juvenile hormone biosynthesis in insect development and metamorphosis	11
Blood-sucking arthropods in the Anthropocene: climate change thermotolerance, and global disease risks	11
Gene regulatory networks underlying the development and evolution of plasticity in horned beetles	11
Chemically mediated trophic interactions of invasive herbivorous insects and their applications for monitoring and management	11
Genomics reveals widespread hybridization across insects with ramifications for species boundaries and invasive species	11
Editorial overview: Adaptive genomic of economically important insects	11
An intricate evolutionary connection between meiotic drive and sex	11
Interactions between parasitism and migration in monarch butterflies	11
A cold and quiet brain: mechanisms of insect CNS arrest at low temperatures	11
Invasive indoor pests under the microbiological lens: bacterial and viral diversity from local to global scales in bed bugs and cockroaches	11
Editorial overview: Arthropod population dynamics at regional scales: Novel approaches and emerging insights	11
Exotic bees in urban ecosystems: establishment, impact, and potential for invasion	10
Insect sex chromosome evolution: conservation, turnover, and mechanisms of dosage compensation	10
Complexity, humility, and action: a current perspective on monarchs in Western North America	10
tRNA expression and modifications as critical components in the biology of blood-feeding arthropods	10
Approaches to quantify and manipulate insect hormone signals	10
Genetic control of malaria transmission: a salivary gland-centric perspective	10
Insecticide resistance in social insects: assumptions, realities, and possibilities	10
Oviposition decisions under environment-induced physiological stress in parasitoids	10
Advances in monitoring of indoor pests	10
Elevated CO2, nutrition dilution, and shifts in Earth’s insect abundance	10
Neuroendocrine control of insect aggression: do environmental stressors modulate aggressive behavior?	10
Metal ions in the physiology of insects	9
Parasitoids for biological control in dryland agroecosystems	9
Like a moth to a flame: the effect of megafires on pollinators and pollination systems	9
Is the evolution of insect odorscapes under anthropic pressures a risk for herbivorous insect invasions?	9
Mechanisms and adaptations that shape division of labour in stingless bees	9
Extrinsic and intrinsic regulation of blood feeding in mosquitoes	9
Editorial overview: Innovative approaches to insect conservation in the face of global challenges	9
Forecasting insect dynamics in a changing world	9
Leveraging advances in RNAi and CRISPR for improved biological pest control	9
Understanding and counteracting the denial of insect biodiversity loss	9
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the effects of artificial light at night on insect populations and communities	9
Ice queens: bumble bee social organization shaped by adaptations to cold climates	9
The future of tropical insect diversity: strategies to fill data and knowledge gaps	9
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Heat tolerance in social insects: molecular correlates and quantitative frameworks	9
Rethinking Vector-Borne Disease Prediction: Toward an Integrative Modelling Approach Including Vector and Host Data	9
Endocrine regulation of reproductive behaviors in insects: a comprehensive review	9
Advances in understanding the drivers of population spatial synchrony	8
Evolving dynamics of Aedes-borne diseases in Africa: a cause for concern	8
Anthropogenic effects on the eco-immunology of herbivorous insects	8
Community scientists produce open data for understanding insects and climate change	8
Insect response to environmental metal contamination	8
The roles of viruses in tephritid pest multitrophic interactions and an outlook for biological control	8
Dynamics of Aedes aegypti mating behaviour	8
Protecting honey bees through microbiome engineering	8
Chemically mediated multitrophic interactions and their role in crop protection	8
The expanding toolkit of insect cell culture: a new era in biotechnology	8
Immune interactions between mosquitoes and microbes during midgut colonization	7
The dose makes the poison: plant toxin concentrations and herbivore immunity against pathogens and parasitoids	7
NLRs are highly relevant resistance genes for aphid pests	7
Spatiotemporal outbreak dynamics of bark and wood-boring insects	7
Dramatically increased accessibility and decreased cost-per-person impacts are needed for scaling IPM in Africa	7
Institutional and policy bottlenecks to IPM	7
Editorial overview: Parasites/parasitoids/biological control (2024) — research advances on plant-derived food sources in biological control	7
Engineering new clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–mediated population control for tephritid pests	7
Sex determination in moths and butterflies: Masculinizer as key player	7

Crosstalk between environmental factors and sex determination pathway: insights from lepidopteran insects and cladoceran crustaceans	7
Editorial overview: Social insects (2024)	7
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Evolution of chemical interactions between ants and their mutualist partners	7
Eco-evo-devo advances on seasonal plasticity of butterfly eyespots	7
Chilled, starved or frozen: insect mitochondrial adaptations to overcome the cold	7
Strengthening adult mosquito surveillance in Africa for disease control: learning from the present	6
Chromosomal inversions and their impact on insect evolution	6
Nutrition- and hormone-controlled developmental plasticity in Blattodea	6
Integrated neural circuits of sleep and memory regulation in Drosophila	6
Regulation of division of labor in insects: a colony-level perspective	6
Microbe-mediated alterations in floral nectar: consequences for insect parasitoids	6
An insect’s energy bar: the potential role of plant guttation on biological control	6
Parallel olfactory processing in a hemimetabolous insect	6
Competitive interactions in insect parasitoids: effects of microbial symbionts across tritrophic levels	6
Developmental genetics of cuticular micro- and nano-structures in insects	6
Spatial odor map formation, development, and possible function in a nocturnal insect	6
Editorial overview: The hidden engines of insect life: The cellular machinery driving physiology	6
The neurobiology of the Monarch butterfly compass	6
Integrating computer vision and molecular neurobiology to bridge the gap between behavior and the brain	6
Population genetics as a tool to understand invasion dynamics and insecticide resistance in indoor urban pest insects	6
Leveraging DNA repair mechanisms in genetically engineered biocontrol	6
The role of ATP-binding cassette transporters in arthropod pesticide toxicity and resistance	6
Plasticity of aggregation pheromones in insects	6
Endocrine regulation of beetle horn polyphenism	6
Feasibility of sand fly control based on knowledge of sensory ecology	5
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and One Health — a call for action to integrate	5
Circadian and daily rhythms of disease vector mosquitoes	5
Effects of phytochemical diversity on multitrophic interactions	5
Invasive termites and their growing global impact as major urban pests	5
Editorial overview: Current Opinion of Insect Science turns 10: updates to fields covered	5
The neuronal building blocks of the navigational toolkit in the central complex of insects	5
Gamma-aminobutyric acid in the honey bee mushroom bodies — is inhibition the wellspring of plasticity?	5
Toward adaptive and high‑precision Integrated Pest Management in the big data era	5
Insect declines: challenges and solutions	5
Genetic control strategies for population suppression in the Anopheles gambiae complex: a review of current technologies	5
Crustaceans played a primary role in establishing gamma-aminobutyric acid as a neurotransmitter	5
Editorial overview: global change: coping with the complexity of interacting stressors, interacting responses, and their feedback loops	5
‘Junk’ that matters: the role of transposable elements in bumblebee genome evolution	5
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Recent advances in insect vision in a 3D world: looming stimuli and escape behaviour	5
Time memory in social insects with a special focus on honey bees	5
Endocrine modulation of macronutrient self‑selection in feeding behavior	5
Mosquitoes feeding on ectothermic hosts: from host seeking to pathogen transmission	5
Nutritional inequalities structure worker division of labor in social insects	5
Interactions between insect species: their evolution and mechanistic architecture	5
Editorial overview: Aroma nudges in bugs: Sensory perception and memory in insects	5
Microbial interactions shaping host attractiveness: insights into dynamic behavioral relationships	5
Chromosomal rearrangements in mosquitoes: from micro- to macroevolution	5
Multimodal floral recognition by bumblebees	5
Editorial overview: Special section on vector sensory ecology (2024)	5
Adapting to change: bee pollinator signatures in anthropized environments	5
Insecticide Resistance in Indonesia: Status, Challenges, and Way Forward in Management of Agricultural Pests	5
Ethical issues in lethal insect monitoring	5
The evolutionary outcomes of climate-change-induced hybridization in insect populations	5
Supergenes in organismal and social development of insects: ideas and opportunities	5
Neuropeptidergic regulation of insect diapause by the circadian clock	5
Semiochemicals and natural repellents in biting fly management	5
Flourishing with sugars - following the fate of parasitoids in the field	5
Novel automation, artificial intelligence, and biomimetic engineering advancements for insect studies and management	4
Harmonising control: understanding the complex impact of pesticides on parasitoid wasps for enhanced pest management	4
Perspectives on the manipulation of mosquito hearing	4
An integrative framework for tick management: the need to connect wildlife science, One Health, and interdisciplinary perspectives	4
Social aphids: emerging model for studying insect sociality	4
Pests and resistance: The biology and control of supervectors and superpests	4
Editorial overview: From neurons to ecology: how sensory information guides insect behaviour	4
Urban insect bioarks of the 21st century	4
The importance of fat accumulation and reserves for insect overwintering	4
Aphid wing plasticity: hormonal and epigenetic control mechanisms	4
Protein glycosylation in insects: types, functions, and variation	4
Insight into phenotypic plasticity in planthoppers	4
Learning under stress: how the insect brain copes	4
Emerging technologies for pollinator monitoring	4
Host–parasitoid trophic webs in complex agricultural systems	4
Livestock–vector interaction using volatile organic metabolites	4
Genetic architecture of morphological adaptation and plasticity in insects: gaps, biases, and future directions	4
Recent approaches lead to a deeper understanding of diverse segmentation mechanisms in insects, with a focus on the pair-rule genes	4
Neuropeptide regulations on behavioral plasticity in social insects	4
Agonist-dependent action of the juvenile hormone receptor	4
Conservation biological control of arthropod pests using native plants	4
Host–parasitoid food webs in oil palm plantations in Asia	4
Metabolic division of labor in social insects	4
Context and the functional use of information in insect sensory ecology	4
Chemosensory and behavioral effects of Methoprene, a commonly used juvenile hormone analog and insect pesticide	4
Editorial overview: Vectors, symbionts, and pathogen interactions: prospects for controlling vector-borne diseases	4
Tracking technologies: advances driving new insights into monarch migration	4
Clines of resistance to parasitoids: the multifarious effects of temperature on defensive symbioses in insects	4