Current Opinion in Insect Science

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	127
Publisher's Note	99
Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate	94
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?	89
The social brain of ‘non-eusocial’ insects	78
The within-host ecology of insects and their parasites: integrating experiments and mathematical models	58
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling	54
Decoding sex differences: how GABA shapes Drosophila behavior	51
Untangling plastic responses to combined thermal and dietary stress in insects	50
Viviparity and obligate blood feeding: tsetse flies as a unique research system to study climate change	44
Sex determination gene Doublesex in hemimetabolous insects	41
Dynamics and evolution of transposable elements in mosquito genomes	41
Origin of eusociality in termites: was genetic monogamy essential?	41
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly	39
Facing the flames: insect responses to megafires and changing fire regimes	39
Population dynamics and drivers of the eastern monarch (Danaus plexippus) across its full annual cycle: a cross-scale synthesis of a model migratory species	38
Contaminant fluxes across ecosystems mediated by aquatic insects	37
Editorial Board	36
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: an integrative view	33
Experimental platforms for functional genomics in ticks	32
Mosquito sex determination: recent advances and applications	31
Genomics of insect natural enemies in agroecosystems	30
Tick chemosensation and implications for novel control strategies	30
Environmentally responsive reproduction: neuroendocrine signalling and the evolution of eusociality	29
Floral nectar and honeydew microbial diversity and their role in biocontrol of insect pests and pollination	28

Editorial overview: Global change biology (2023) — Novel perspectives on futures, mechanisms, and the human element of insect conservation in the Anthropocene	28
Parasitoid speciation and diversification	28
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Aedes-borne viral disease transmission: vector dynamics, plasticity, and prospects for control	28
Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest geometrid outbreaks	28
Editorial Board	27
An integrative genomic toolkit for studying the genetic, evolutionary, and molecular underpinnings of eusociality in insects	27
MicroRNAs in the developmental toolbox — a comparative approach to understanding their role in regulating insect development	27
Large-scale omics analyses of nutrition-responsive mechanisms of female germline stem cell proliferation and maintenance in Drosophila melanogaster	27
The evolution of queen competitions to boost productivity	26
Editorial overview: Spotlight on monarch butterflies: A treasure trove of biology to preserve	26
The neuroecology of olfaction in bees	25
Recent advances in agroecological research for increasing scope of areawide pest management of arthropods in cropping systems	24
Climate change, temperature extremes, and impacts on hyperparasitoids	24
Neuroanatomy of blood-feeding arthropods	24
Acylsugar-mediated resistance as part of a multilayered defense against thrips, orthotospoviruses, and beyond	24
Editorial Board	23
Processing insects for use in the food and feed industry	23
The monarch butterfly in Mexico: a conservation model	22
Investigating the role of chemical ecology in plant-pathogen, vector, and secondary consumer interactions and their consequences for integrated pest management	22
Editorial Board	21
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	20
Flipping indirect defense: chemical cues from natural enemies mediate multitrophic interactions	20
Editorial Board	20
Evolution of visual system specialization in predatory arthropods	20
Repetitive DNAs: the ‘invisible’ regulators of insect adaptation and speciation	19
Induced plant resistance and its influence on natural enemy use of plant-derived foods	19
Metabolomics as a tool to elucidate biochemical cold adaptation in insects	19
The effects of urbanisation on ecological interactions	18
Virus and endogenous viral element-derived small non-coding RNAs and their roles in insect–virus interaction	18
A call to arms: novel strategies for thrips and tospovirus control	18
Genetic and viral approaches to record or manipulate neurons in insects	18
Editorial overview: How do social insects know their tasks?	18
Editorial overview: Development and regulation: Lessons from a multispecies approach	18
Vector microbiota and immunity: modulating arthropod susceptibility to vertebrate pathogens	18
Recent advances on hormones and behavior in vertebrates: inspiration for and from invertebrate science	17
Evolution and loss of ß-catenin and TCF-dependent axis specification in insects	17
Honeydew management to promote biological control	17
Foe to frenemy: predacious ant nest beetles use multiple strategies to fully integrate into ant nests	17
Microbial, genetic, and urban drivers of ant invasions	17
Regulation of insect cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis	16
Community change and population outbreak of grasshoppers driven by climate change	16
Anticipating evolutionary responses of mosquito mating systems to population suppression with mass-reared males	16
Insect olfactory neurons: receptors, development, and function	16
Edible insect farming as an emerging and profitable enterprise in East Africa	16
Vibration receptor organs in the insect leg: neuroanatomical diversity and functional principles	16
Endocrine-disrupting effects of contaminants on communication and behaviors of insects: from molecular effects to ecological consequences	16
Adaptation to urban environments	16
Cold-induced immune activation in chill-susceptible insects	16
The self as part of the sensory ecology: how behavior affects sensation from the inside out	15

Insect visual perception and pest control: opportunities and challenges	15
Prospects for application of population genetics for control of tsetse flies in Africa	15
Insects and microbes: best friends from the nursery	15
Editorial Board	15
Editorial overview: Insecticide resistance mechanisms — from behavior and physiology to microbiome science	15
Where do all the pests go? Understanding the genomic mechanisms of crop pest dynamics during the off-season	15
Editorial Board	15
Evolution of Odonata: genomic insights	14
Taste adaptations in blood-feeding arthropods: mechanisms and ecological implications	14
Measuring and modelling crop yield losses due to invasive insect pests under climate change	14
New insight into molecular mechanisms underlying division of labor in honeybees	14
Editorial overview: Classical, novel and underrated regulators of development in the omics era	14
VectorBase.org updates: bioinformatic resources for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens and related organisms	14
Mosquito floral visitation and pollination	14
Collective decision-making during reproduction in social insects: a conceptual model for queen supersedure in honey bees (Apis mellifera)	13
Biogenic amines in honey bee cognition: neurochemical pathways and stress impacts	13
Interactions between parasitism and migration in monarch butterflies	13
Chemical ecology of nectar–mosquito interactions: recent advances and future directions	13
Beyond the bite: how mosquito salivary proteins modulate midgut biology and malaria parasite transmission	13
Microbial influence on reproduction, conversion, and growth of mass produced insects	13
Gene editing in agricultural, health, and veterinary pest arthropods: recent advances	13
Pathogen within-host dynamics and disease outcome: what can we learn from insect studies?	13
Monocot crop–aphid interactions: plant resilience and aphid adaptation	13
Behavioral, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying caterpillar-ant symbioses	13
Extracting spatial information from temporal odor patterns: insights from insects	13
Firefly genomes illuminate the evolution of beetle bioluminescent systems	12
Global change and adaptive biosecurity: managing current and emerging Aleurocanthus woglumi threats to Europe	12
Heat stress and host–parasitoid interactions: lessons and opportunities in a changing climate	12
Genomics and genome editing techniques of crickets, an emerging model insect for biology and food science	12
Genomics reveals widespread hybridization across insects with ramifications for species boundaries and invasive species	12
Chemically mediated trophic interactions of invasive herbivorous insects and their applications for monitoring and management	12
Phenomenon of reproductive plasticity in ants	11
Advances in data-collection tools and analytics for crop pest and disease management	11
Insecticide resistance in social insects: assumptions, realities, and possibilities	10
Advances in monitoring of indoor pests	10
Neuroendocrine control of insect aggression: do environmental stressors modulate aggressive behavior?	10
Editorial overview: Arthropod population dynamics at regional scales: Novel approaches and emerging insights	10
Molecular physiology of copper in Drosophila melanogaster	10
Invasive indoor pests under the microbiological lens: bacterial and viral diversity from local to global scales in bed bugs and cockroaches	10
A cold and quiet brain: mechanisms of insect CNS arrest at low temperatures	10
Complexity, humility, and action: a current perspective on monarchs in Western North America	10
Editorial overview: Adaptive genomic of economically important insects	10
Insect sex chromosome evolution: conservation, turnover, and mechanisms of dosage compensation	10
Editorial overview: The time is ripe for expanded research on mass production of insects as food and feed	10
Oviposition decisions under environment-induced physiological stress in parasitoids	9
Elevated CO2, nutrition dilution, and shifts in Earth’s insect abundance	9
Approaches to quantify and manipulate insect hormone signals	9
Ice queens: bumble bee social organization shaped by adaptations to cold climates	9
Daily temperature fluctuations can magnify the toxicity of pesticides	9
tRNA expression and modifications as critical components in the biology of blood-feeding arthropods	9
Gene regulatory networks underlying the development and evolution of plasticity in horned beetles	9
Forecasting insect dynamics in a changing world	9
Exotic bees in urban ecosystems: establishment, impact, and potential for invasion	9
Chironomid midges (Diptera) provide insights into genome evolution in extreme environments	9
Genetic Control of Malaria Transmission: A Salivary Gland-Centric Perspective	9
Editorial overview: Innovative approaches to insect conservation in the face of global challenges	9
Parasitoids for biological control in dryland agroecosystems	9
Metal ions in the physiology of insects	9
The future of tropical insect diversity: strategies to fill data and knowledge gaps	8
Endocrine regulation of reproductive behaviors in insects: a comprehensive review	8
Mechanisms and adaptations that shape division of labour in stingless bees	8
The roles of viruses in tephritid pest multitrophic interactions and an outlook for biological control	8
Advances in understanding the drivers of population spatial synchrony	8
From Wolbachia genomics to phenotype: molecular models of cytoplasmic incompatibility must account for the multiplicity of compatibility types	8
Like a moth to a flame: the effect of megafires on pollinators and pollination systems	8
Understanding and counteracting the denial of insect biodiversity loss	8
The diversity of endogenous viral elements in insects	8
Anthropogenic effects on the eco-immunology of herbivorous insects	8
Is the evolution of insect odorscapes under anthropic pressures a risk for herbivorous insect invasions?	8
Extrinsic and intrinsic regulation of blood feeding in mosquitoes	8
The Expanding Toolkit of Insect Cell Culture: A New Era in Biotechnology	8
Molecular physiology of iron trafficking in Drosophila melanogaster	8
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the effects of artificial light at night on insect populations and communities	8
Editorial overview: Parasites/parasitoids/biological control (2024) — research advances on plant-derived food sources in biological control	8
Editorial Board	8
Balancing sensitivity, risk, and immunopathology in immune regulation	7
Protecting honey bees through microbiome engineering	7
Sex determination in moths and butterflies: Masculinizer as key player	7
Immune interactions between mosquitoes and microbes during midgut colonization	7
Publisher Note	7

Community scientists produce open data for understanding insects and climate change	7
The dose makes the poison: plant toxin concentrations and herbivore immunity against pathogens and parasitoids	7
Editorial Board	7
Evolving dynamics of Aedes-borne diseases in Africa: a cause for concern	7
Dynamics of Aedes aegypti mating behaviour	7
Evolution of chemical interactions between ants and their mutualist partners	7
Engineering new clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–mediated population control for tephritid pests	6
Institutional and policy bottlenecks to IPM	6
Parallel olfactory processing in a hemimetabolous insect	6
Plasticity of aggregation pheromones in insects	6
Social insects (2024)	6
Potential distribution of invasive crop pests under climate change: incorporating mitigation responses of insects into prediction models	6
NLRs are highly relevant resistance genes for aphid pests	6
The neurobiology of the Monarch butterfly compass	6
Crosstalk between environmental factors and sex determination pathway: insights from lepidopteran insects and cladoceran crustaceans	6
Parallel evolutionary paths of rove beetle myrmecophiles: replaying a deep-time tape of life	6
Impact of parasitoid-associated polydnaviruses on plant-mediated herbivore interactions	6
Strengthening adult mosquito surveillance in Africa for disease control: learning from the present	6
Chilled, starved or frozen: insect mitochondrial adaptations to overcome the cold	6
Dramatically increased accessibility and decreased cost-per-person impacts are needed for scaling IPM in Africa	6
An insect’s energy bar: the potential role of plant guttation on biological control	5
Microbial interactions shaping host attractiveness: insights into dynamic behavioral relationships	5
The role of ATP-binding cassette transporters in arthropod pesticide toxicity and resistance	5
Recent advances in understanding horn formation in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus using next-generation sequencing technology	5
Editorial overview: Current Opinion of Insect Science turns 10: updates to fields covered	5
Supergenes in organismal and social development of insects: ideas and opportunities	5
Gamma-aminobutyric acid in the honey bee mushroom bodies — is inhibition the wellspring of plasticity?	5
Genetic control strategies for population suppression in the Anopheles gambiae complex: a review of current technologies	5
Nutrition- and hormone-controlled developmental plasticity in Blattodea	5
Genomics of the semi-aquatic bugs (Heteroptera; Gerromorpha): recent advances toward establishing a model lineage for the study of phenotypic evolution	5
Spatial odor map formation, development, and possible function in a nocturnal insect	5
Integrating computer vision and molecular neurobiology to bridge the gap between behavior and the brain	5
Integrated neural circuits of sleep and memory regulation in Drosophila	5
Nutritional inequalities structure worker division of labor in social insects	5
Mosquitoes feeding on ectothermic hosts: from host seeking to pathogen transmission	5
The evolutionary outcomes of climate-change-induced hybridization in insect populations	5
Ethical issues in lethal insect monitoring	5
Interactions between insect species: their evolution and mechanistic architecture	5
Population genetics as a tool to understand invasion dynamics and insecticide resistance in indoor urban pest insects	5
Competitive interactions in insect parasitoids: effects of microbial symbionts across tritrophic levels	5
Independent somatic distribution of heme and iron in ticks	5
Microbe-mediated alterations in floral nectar: consequences for insect parasitoids	5
Spatiotemporal outbreak dynamics of bark and wood-boring insects	5
Semiochemicals and natural repellents in biting fly management	5
Identifying bracovirus and ichnovirus genes involved in virion morphogenesis	5
The neuronal building blocks of the navigational toolkit in the central complex of insects	5
Thermal biology of invasive Aedes mosquitoes in the context of climate change	5
Neuropeptidergic regulation of insect diapause by the circadian clock	5
Editorial overview: Aroma nudges in bugs: Sensory perception and memory in insects	5
Regulation of division of labor in insects: a colony-level perspective	5
Developmental genetics of cuticular micro- and nano-structures in insects	5
Chromosomal inversions and their impact on insect evolution	5
The emerging role of epigenetic mechanisms in insect defense against pathogens	4
Flourishing with sugars - following the fate of parasitoids in the field	4
The importance of fat accumulation and reserves for insect overwintering	4
Urban insect bioarks of the 21st century	4
Recent approaches lead to a deeper understanding of diverse segmentation mechanisms in insects, with a focus on the pair-rule genes	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
Chromosomal rearrangements in mosquitoes: from micro- to macroevolution	4
Social aphids: emerging model for studying insect sociality	4
Editorial Board	4
Spatial distribution of campaniform sensilla mechanosensors on wings: form, function, and phylogeny	4
Effects of phytochemical diversity on multitrophic interactions	4
Historical invasion of medfly in the Neotropical region and adoption of management techniques	4
Genetic architecture of morphological adaptation and plasticity in insects: gaps, biases, and future directions	4
Context and the functional use of information in insect sensory ecology	4
Pests and resistance: The biology and control of supervectors and superpests	4
Clines of resistance to parasitoids: the multifarious effects of temperature on defensive symbioses in insects	4
Editorial overview: From neurons to ecology: how sensory information guides insect behaviour	4
Multimodal floral recognition by bumblebees	4
Exploring new genomic territories with emerging model insects	4
Editorial overview: Special section on vector sensory ecology (2024)	4
Invasive termites and their growing global impact as major urban pests	4
Crustaceans played a primary role in establishing gamma-aminobutyric acid as a neurotransmitter	4
Adapting to change: bee pollinator signatures in anthropized environments	4
‘Junk’ that matters: the role of transposable elements in bumblebee genome evolution	4
Feasibility of sand fly control based on knowledge of sensory ecology	4
Neuropeptide regulations on behavioral plasticity in social insects	4
Chemosensory and behavioral effects of Methoprene, a commonly used juvenile hormone analog and insect pesticide	4
Emerging technologies for pollinator monitoring	4
Livestock–vector interaction using volatile organic metabolites	4
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and One Health — a call for action to integrate	4
Circadian and daily rhythms of disease vector mosquitoes	4
Time memory in social insects with a special focus on honey bees	4
Recent advances in insect vision in a 3D world: looming stimuli and escape behaviour	4
Editorial overview: global change: coping with the complexity of interacting stressors, interacting responses, and their feedback loops	4