Current Opinion in Insect Science

Article	Citations
Publisher's Note	98
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?	85
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling	85
Untangling plastic responses to combined thermal and dietary stress in insects	75
Population dynamics and drivers of the eastern monarch (Danaus plexippus) across its full annual cycle: a cross-scale synthesis of a model migratory species	72
Editorial Board	72
Origin of eusociality in termites: was genetic monogamy essential?	66
The social brain of ‘non-eusocial’ insects	64
Sex determination gene Doublesex in hemimetabolous insects	63
Decoding sex differences: how GABA shapes Drosophila behavior	56
Facing the flames: insect responses to megafires and changing fire regimes	53
The within-host ecology of insects and their parasites: integrating experiments and mathematical models	51
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly	51
Contaminant fluxes across ecosystems mediated by aquatic insects	50
Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate	45
Viviparity and obligate blood feeding: tsetse flies as a unique research system to study climate change	45
Emerging patterns in social wasp invasions	43
Editorial overview: Global change biology (2023) — Novel perspectives on futures, mechanisms, and the human element of insect conservation in the Anthropocene	40
Pollinator conservation requires a stronger and broader application of the precautionary principle	39
Environmentally responsive reproduction: neuroendocrine signalling and the evolution of eusociality	37
Parasitoid speciation and diversification	37
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Aedes-borne viral disease transmission: vector dynamics, plasticity, and prospects for control	37
Genomics of insect natural enemies in agroecosystems	37
Experimental platforms for functional genomics in ticks	36
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: an integrative view	36

Editorial Board	35
Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest geometrid outbreaks	33
Tick chemosensation and implications for novel control strategies	32
Floral nectar and honeydew microbial diversity and their role in biocontrol of insect pests and pollination	32
Breeding structure and invasiveness in social insects	31
Recent advances in agroecological research for increasing scope of areawide pest management of arthropods in cropping systems	30
Large-scale omics analyses of nutrition-responsive mechanisms of female germline stem cell proliferation and maintenance in Drosophila melanogaster	30
An integrative genomic toolkit for studying the genetic, evolutionary, and molecular underpinnings of eusociality in insects	30
Editorial Board	28
MicroRNAs in the developmental toolbox — a comparative approach to understanding their role in regulating insect development	28
The neuroecology of olfaction in bees	27
Editorial overview: Spotlight on monarch butterflies: A treasure trove of biology to preserve	27
The evolution of queen competitions to boost productivity	27
How does climate change affect social insects?	26
Climate change, temperature extremes, and impacts on hyperparasitoids	26
Editorial Board	25
Plant–pollinator conservation from the perspective of systems-ecology	25
Acylsugar-mediated resistance as part of a multilayered defense against thrips, orthotospoviruses, and beyond	25
Processing insects for use in the food and feed industry	25
Post-transcriptional regulation of behavior plasticity in social insects	24
Editorial Board	24
Editorial Board	24
Repetitive DNAs: the ‘invisible’ regulators of insect adaptation and speciation	23
Metabolomics as a tool to elucidate biochemical cold adaptation in insects	23
Investigating the role of chemical ecology in plant-pathogen, vector, and secondary consumer interactions and their consequences for integrated pest management	23
Osmoregulatory capacity at low temperature is critical for insect cold tolerance	22
Induced plant resistance and its influence on natural enemy use of plant-derived foods	22
Plasticity of the olfactory behaviors in Bactrocera dorsalis under various physiological states and environmental conditions	22
Flipping indirect defense: chemical cues from natural enemies mediate multitrophic interactions	22
Evolution of visual system specialization in predatory arthropods	22
A call to arms: novel strategies for thrips and tospovirus control	22
The monarch butterfly in Mexico: a conservation model	22
Updates on ion and water transport by the Malpighian tubule	21
The effects of urbanisation on ecological interactions	21
Cold-induced immune activation in chill-susceptible insects	20
Honeydew management to promote biological control	20
Novel mechanisms of epithelial ion transport: insights from the cryptonephridial system of lepidopteran larvae	20
Edible insect farming as an emerging and profitable enterprise in East Africa	20
Foe to frenemy: predacious ant nest beetles use multiple strategies to fully integrate into ant nests	20
Editorial overview: How do social insects know their tasks?	20
Insect olfactory neurons: receptors, development, and function	19
Vector microbiota and immunity: modulating arthropod susceptibility to vertebrate pathogens	19
Vibration receptor organs in the insect leg: neuroanatomical diversity and functional principles	19
Editorial overview: Development and regulation: Lessons from a multispecies approach	18
Regulation of insect cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis	18
Genetic and viral approaches to record or manipulate neurons in insects	18
Recent advances on hormones and behavior in vertebrates: inspiration for and from invertebrate science	18
Virus and endogenous viral element-derived small non-coding RNAs and their roles in insect–virus interaction	18
Evolution and loss of ß-catenin and TCF-dependent axis specification in insects	18
Adaptation to urban environments	17

Community change and population outbreak of grasshoppers driven by climate change	17
Editorial Board	16
Editorial overview: Molecular physiology of ion transport	16
The self as part of the sensory ecology: how behavior affects sensation from the inside out	16
Editorial Board	16
Anticipating evolutionary responses of mosquito mating systems to population suppression with mass-reared males	16
Editorial overview: Effects of global change on species interactions and biodiversity in natural and managed landscapes	16
Editorial overview: Insecticide resistance mechanisms — from behavior and physiology to microbiome science	15
Mosquito floral visitation and pollination	15
Insect visual perception and pest control: opportunities and challenges	15
Insects and microbes: best friends from the nursery	15
Prospects for application of population genetics for control of tsetse flies in Africa	15
Monocot crop–aphid interactions: plant resilience and aphid adaptation	14
Where do all the pests go? Understanding the genomic mechanisms of crop pest dynamics during the off-season	14
Microbial influence on reproduction, conversion, and growth of mass produced insects	14
Measuring and modelling crop yield losses due to invasive insect pests under climate change	14
Editorial overview: Classical, novel and underrated regulators of development in the omics era	14
Evolution of Odonata: genomic insights	14
Biogenic amines in honey bee cognition: neurochemical pathways and stress impacts	13
VectorBase.org updates: bioinformatic resources for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens and related organisms	13
Gene editing in agricultural, health, and veterinary pest arthropods: recent advances	13
Chemical ecology of nectar–mosquito interactions: recent advances and future directions	13
New insight into molecular mechanisms underlying division of labor in honeybees	13
Pathogen within-host dynamics and disease outcome: what can we learn from insect studies?	13
Beyond the bite: how mosquito salivary proteins modulate midgut biology and malaria parasite transmission	13
Collective decision-making during reproduction in social insects: a conceptual model for queen supersedure in honey bees (Apis mellifera)	13
Global change and adaptive biosecurity: managing current and emerging Aleurocanthus woglumi threats to Europe	13
Extracting spatial information from temporal odor patterns: insights from insects	13
Behavioral, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying caterpillar-ant symbioses	13
Advances in data-collection tools and analytics for crop pest and disease management	13
Firefly genomes illuminate the evolution of beetle bioluminescent systems	13
Interactions between parasitism and migration in monarch butterflies	13
Taste adaptations in blood-feeding arthropods: mechanisms and ecological implications	13
Invasive ant establishment, spread, and management with changing climate	12
Heat stress and host–parasitoid interactions: lessons and opportunities in a changing climate	12
Phenomenon of reproductive plasticity in ants	12
Editorial overview: Arthropod population dynamics at regional scales: Novel approaches and emerging insights	12
Anthropogenic noise affects insect and arachnid behavior, thus changing interactions within and between species	12
A cold and quiet brain: mechanisms of insect CNS arrest at low temperatures	12
Complexity, humility, and action: a current perspective on monarchs in Western North America	12
Genomics reveals widespread hybridization across insects with ramifications for species boundaries and invasive species	12
Genomics and genome editing techniques of crickets, an emerging model insect for biology and food science	12
Chemically mediated trophic interactions of invasive herbivorous insects and their applications for monitoring and management	12
Elevated CO2, nutrition dilution, and shifts in Earth’s insect abundance	12
Editorial overview: The time is ripe for expanded research on mass production of insects as food and feed	11
Editorial overview: Adaptive genomic of economically important insects	11
Advances in monitoring of indoor pests	11
Molecular physiology of copper in Drosophila melanogaster	11
Oviposition decisions under environment-induced physiological stress in parasitoids	11
Pollinator decline: what do we know about the drivers of solitary bee declines?	11
Editorial Board	11
Gene regulatory networks underlying the development and evolution of plasticity in horned beetles	11
Insecticide resistance in social insects: assumptions, realities, and possibilities	11
Invasive indoor pests under the microbiological lens: bacterial and viral diversity from local to global scales in bed bugs and cockroaches	11
Insect sex chromosome evolution: conservation, turnover, and mechanisms of dosage compensation	11
Chironomid midges (Diptera) provide insights into genome evolution in extreme environments	10
Extrinsic and intrinsic regulation of blood feeding in mosquitoes	10
From Wolbachia genomics to phenotype: molecular models of cytoplasmic incompatibility must account for the multiplicity of compatibility types	10
Parasitoids for biological control in dryland agroecosystems	10
Daily temperature fluctuations can magnify the toxicity of pesticides	10
Metal ions in the physiology of insects	10
The future of tropical insect diversity: strategies to fill data and knowledge gaps	10
Exotic bees in urban ecosystems: establishment, impact, and potential for invasion	10
Is the evolution of insect odorscapes under anthropic pressures a risk for herbivorous insect invasions?	9
Molecular physiology of iron trafficking in Drosophila melanogaster	9
The diversity of endogenous viral elements in insects	9
Mechanisms and adaptations that shape division of labour in stingless bees	9
Like a moth to a flame: the effect of megafires on pollinators and pollination systems	9
Forecasting insect dynamics in a changing world	9
Endocrine regulation of reproductive behaviors in insects: a comprehensive review	9
Editorial Board	9
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the effects of artificial light at night on insect populations and communities	9
Understanding and counteracting the denial of insect biodiversity loss	9
The roles of viruses in tephritid pest multitrophic interactions and an outlook for biological control	9
Editorial overview: Parasites/parasitoids/biological control (2024) — research advances on plant-derived food sources in biological control	8
Dynamics of Aedes aegypti mating behaviour	8
Editorial Board	8
Evolution of chemical interactions between ants and their mutualist partners	8
Advances in understanding the drivers of population spatial synchrony	8
Evolving dynamics of Aedes-borne diseases in Africa: a cause for concern	8

Balancing sensitivity, risk, and immunopathology in immune regulation	8
Sex determination in moths and butterflies: Masculinizer as key player	8
Publisher Note	8
Anthropogenic effects on the eco-immunology of herbivorous insects	8
Community scientists produce open data for understanding insects and climate change	8
Institutional and policy bottlenecks to IPM	7
Immune interactions between mosquitoes and microbes during midgut colonization	7
How protection of honey bees can help and hinder bee conservation	7
NLRs are highly relevant resistance genes for aphid pests	7
Engineering New CRISPR-Mediated Population Control for Tephritid Pests	7
Global change in marine coastal habitats impacts insect populations and communities	7
Parallel evolutionary paths of rove beetle myrmecophiles: replaying a deep-time tape of life	7
Impact of parasitoid-associated polydnaviruses on plant-mediated herbivore interactions	7
Potential distribution of invasive crop pests under climate change: incorporating mitigation responses of insects into prediction models	7
Integrating computer vision and molecular neurobiology to bridge the gap between behavior and the brain	6
Strengthening adult mosquito surveillance in Africa for disease control: learning from the present	6
An insect’s energy bar: the potential role of plant guttation on biological control	6
The neurobiology of the Monarch butterfly compass	6
Plasticity of aggregation pheromones in insects	6
Newer characters, same story: neonicotinoid insecticides disrupt food webs through direct and indirect effects	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
Parallel olfactory processing in a hemimetabolous insect	6
Spatiotemporal outbreak dynamics of bark and wood-boring insects	6
Chromosomal inversions and their impact on insect evolution	6
Microbe-mediated alterations in floral nectar: consequences for insect parasitoids	6
Integrated neural circuits of sleep and memory regulation in Drosophila	5
Regulation of division of labor in insects: a colony-level perspective	5
Population genetics as a tool to understand invasion dynamics and insecticide resistance in indoor urban pest insects	5
The role of ATP-binding cassette transporters in arthropod pesticide toxicity and resistance	5
Interactions between insect species: their evolution and mechanistic architecture	5
Independent somatic distribution of heme and iron in ticks	5
Nutrition- and hormone-controlled developmental plasticity in Blattodea	5
Spatial odor map formation, development, and possible function in a nocturnal insect	5
Semiochemicals and natural repellents in biting fly management	5
Editorial overview: Aroma nudges in bugs: Sensory perception and memory in insects	5
Building effective policies to conserve pollinators: translating knowledge into policy	5
Genomics of the semi-aquatic bugs (Heteroptera; Gerromorpha): recent advances toward establishing a model lineage for the study of phenotypic evolution	5
Competitive interactions in insect parasitoids: effects of microbial symbionts across tritrophic levels	5
Do amateurs and citizen science fill the gaps left by scientists?	5
Recent advances in understanding horn formation in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus using next-generation sequencing technology	5
Developmental genetics of cuticular micro- and nano-structures in insects	5
The neuronal building blocks of the navigational toolkit in the central complex of insects	4
Exploring new genomic territories with emerging model insects	4
The importance of scavenging in ant invasions	4
The emerging role of epigenetic mechanisms in insect defense against pathogens	4
Neuropeptidergic regulation of insect diapause by the circadian clock	4
Adapting to change: bee pollinator signatures in anthropized environments	4
Pests and resistance: The biology and control of supervectors and superpests	4
Livestock–vector interaction using volatile organic metabolites	4
Circadian and daily rhythms of disease vector mosquitoes	4
‘Junk’ that matters: the role of transposable elements in bumblebee genome evolution	4
Historical invasion of medfly in the Neotropical region and adoption of management techniques	4
Time memory in social insects with a special focus on honey bees	4
The evolutionary outcomes of climate-change-induced hybridization in insect populations	4
Effects of phytochemical diversity on multitrophic interactions	4
Feasibility of sand fly control based on knowledge of sensory ecology	4
Microbial interactions shaping host attractiveness: insights into dynamic behavioral relationships	4
Artificial light at night disrupts species interactions and changes insect communities	4
Gamma-aminobutyric acid in the honey bee mushroom bodies — is inhibition the wellspring of plasticity?	4
Nutritional inequalities structure worker division of labor in social insects	4
Thermal biology of invasive Aedes mosquitoes in the context of climate change	4
Recent advances in insect vision in a 3D world: looming stimuli and escape behaviour	4
Multimodal floral recognition by bumblebees	4
The importance of fat accumulation and reserves for insect overwintering	4
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and One Health — a call for action to integrate	4
Spatial distribution of campaniform sensilla mechanosensors on wings: form, function, and phylogeny	4
Editorial Board	4
Mosquitoes feeding on ectothermic hosts: from host seeking to pathogen transmission	4
Flourishing with sugars - following the fate of parasitoids in the field	4
Identifying bracovirus and ichnovirus genes involved in virion morphogenesis	4
Editorial overview: Current Opinion of Insect Science turns 10: updates to fields covered	4
The managed-to-invasive species continuum in social and solitary bees and impacts on native bee conservation	4
Supergenes in organismal and social development of insects: ideas and opportunities	4
Crustaceans played a primary role in establishing gamma-aminobutyric acid as a neurotransmitter	4
Editorial overview: global change: coping with the complexity of interacting stressors, interacting responses, and their feedback loops	4
Genetic architecture of morphological adaptation and plasticity in insects: gaps, biases, and future directions	4
Tracking technologies: advances driving new insights into monarch migration	4
Editorial overview: Special section on vector sensory ecology (2024)	4
Ethical issues in lethal insect monitoring	4
Invasive termites and their growing global impact as major urban pests	4