Current Opinion in Insect Science

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	164
Decoding sex differences: how GABA shapes Drosophila behavior	86
Population dynamics and drivers of the eastern monarch (Danaus plexippus) across its full annual cycle: a cross-scale synthesis of a model migratory species	71
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling	55
Dynamics and evolution of transposable elements in mosquito genomes	51
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?	48
Origin of eusociality in termites: was genetic monogamy essential?	48
Viviparity and obligate blood feeding: tsetse flies as a unique research system to study climate change	46
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly	40
Global Change Biology 2025	39
Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate	38
Sex determination gene Doublesex in hemimetabolous insects	38
Leveraging sex determination systems for genetic biocontrol of dipteran pests	37
Facing the flames: insect responses to megafires and changing fire regimes	34
The genetics and mechanisms of parasitoid host specificity	32
Untangling plastic responses to combined thermal and dietary stress in insects	30
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Molecular insights into symbiotic microbe transmission in hemipteran insects	30
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: an integrative view	29
Tick chemosensation and implications for novel control strategies	29
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Aedes-borne viral disease transmission: vector dynamics, plasticity, and prospects for control	28
Experimental platforms for functional genomics in ticks	28
Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest geometrid outbreaks	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	27

Genomics of insect natural enemies in agroecosystems	27
Mosquito sex determination: recent advances and applications	27
Floral nectar and honeydew microbial diversity and their role in biocontrol of insect pests and pollination	26
Environmentally responsive reproduction: neuroendocrine signalling and the evolution of eusociality	26
Editorial Board	25
Acylsugar-mediated resistance as part of a multilayered defense against thrips, orthotospoviruses, and beyond	25
Large-scale omics analyses of nutrition-responsive mechanisms of female germline stem cell proliferation and maintenance in Drosophila melanogaster	24
Editorial overview: Spotlight on monarch butterflies: A treasure trove of biology to preserve	24
The evolution of queen competitions to boost productivity	24
Climate change, temperature extremes, and impacts on hyperparasitoids	23
Neuroanatomy of blood-feeding arthropods	23
Editorial Overview: Insect Genomics (2026): Enhancing public health, food security, and biodiversity through genetic biocontrol	23
An integrative genomic toolkit for studying the genetic, evolutionary, and molecular underpinnings of eusociality in insects	23
Recent advances in agroecological research for increasing scope of areawide pest management of arthropods in cropping systems	22
MicroRNAs in the developmental toolbox — a comparative approach to understanding their role in regulating insect development	22
The neuroecology of olfaction in bees	22
How many times to molt? Endocrine control of moltinism in lepidopteran insects	22
Editorial Board	21
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Post-transcriptional regulation of behavior plasticity in social insects	20
Juvenile hormone degradation enzymes in insect development: emerging insights from functional genetics	20
Flipping indirect defense: chemical cues from natural enemies mediate multitrophic interactions	20
Investigating the role of chemical ecology in plant-pathogen, vector, and secondary consumer interactions and their consequences for integrated pest management	20
Induced plant resistance and its influence on natural enemy use of plant-derived foods	20
The effects of urbanisation on ecological interactions	20
The monarch butterfly in Mexico: a conservation model	20
Evolution of visual system specialization in predatory arthropods	19
Plasticity of the olfactory behaviors in Bactrocera dorsalis under various physiological states and environmental conditions	19
Metabolomics as a tool to elucidate biochemical cold adaptation in insects	19
Climate change and pesticide resistance: a synthesis on emerging mechanisms and evolutionary dynamics	19
Metabolic command centers in Drosophila: how the fat body and oenocytes orchestrate immunity, reproduction, and aging	18
Editorial overview: How do social insects know their tasks?	18
Community change and population outbreak of grasshoppers driven by climate change	18
Repetitive DNAs: the ‘invisible’ regulators of insect adaptation and speciation	18
Vibration receptor organs in the insect leg: neuroanatomical diversity and functional principles	18
A call to arms: novel strategies for thrips and tospovirus control	18
Regulation of insect cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis	18
Microbial, genetic, and urban drivers of ant invasions	18
Recent advances on hormones and behavior in vertebrates: inspiration for and from invertebrate science	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
Cold-induced immune activation in chill-susceptible insects	17
Endocrine-disrupting effects of contaminants on communication and behaviors of insects: from molecular effects to ecological consequences	17
Insect olfactory neurons: receptors, development, and function	17
The self as part of the sensory ecology: how behavior affects sensation from the inside out	16
Editorial overview: Insecticide resistance mechanisms — from behavior and physiology to microbiome science	16
Editorial Board	16
Prospects for application of population genetics for control of tsetse flies in Africa	16
Evolution of Odonata: genomic insights	15

Beyond the static lab: environmental variability in genetically modified mosquito target gene identification for malaria control	15
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Anticipating evolutionary responses of mosquito mating systems to population suppression with mass-reared males	15
Where do all the pests go? Understanding the genomic mechanisms of crop pest dynamics during the off-season	15
Editorial overview: Chemical ecology of multitrophic interactions: Current research and potential applications	14
The role of insulin and octopamine in regulating energy homeostasis and locomotion in insects	14
Insect visual perception and pest control: opportunities and challenges	14
Pathogen within-host dynamics and disease outcome: what can we learn from insect studies?	14
Insects and microbes: best friends from the nursery	14
Editorial overview: Classical, novel and underrated regulators of development in the omics era	14
Mosquito floral visitation and pollination	14
Extracting spatial information from temporal odor patterns: insights from insects	13
Beyond the bite: how mosquito salivary proteins modulate midgut biology and malaria parasite transmission	13
Monocot crop–aphid interactions: plant resilience and aphid adaptation	13
Biogenic amines in honey bee cognition: neurochemical pathways and stress impacts	13
Taste adaptations in blood-feeding arthropods: mechanisms and ecological implications	13
Insect–microbiome interactions in a changing world	13
New insight into molecular mechanisms underlying division of labor in honeybees	13
Behavioral, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying caterpillar-ant symbioses	13
Insecticide resistance in the house fly (Musca domestica): metabolic detoxification, key genes, and regulatory characterization	12
Global change and adaptive biosecurity: managing current and emerging Aleurocanthus woglumi threats to Europe	12
A cold and quiet brain: mechanisms of insect CNS arrest at low temperatures	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
Collective decision-making during reproduction in social insects: a conceptual model for queen supersedure in honey bees (Apis mellifera)	12
Interactions between parasitism and migration in monarch butterflies	12
Chemical ecology of nectar–mosquito interactions: recent advances and future directions	12
Phenomenon of reproductive plasticity in ants	12
Heat stress and host–parasitoid interactions: lessons and opportunities in a changing climate	12
Chemically mediated trophic interactions of invasive herbivorous insects and their applications for monitoring and management	12
TGF-β-dependent regulation of juvenile hormone biosynthesis in insect development and metamorphosis	12
Blood-sucking arthropods in the Anthropocene: climate change thermotolerance, and global disease risks	12
Genomics reveals widespread hybridization across insects with ramifications for species boundaries and invasive species	11
Editorial overview: Adaptive genomic of economically important insects	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
Insecticide resistance in social insects: assumptions, realities, and possibilities	11
Oviposition decisions under environment-induced physiological stress in parasitoids	10
Exotic bees in urban ecosystems: establishment, impact, and potential for invasion	10
Ice queens: bumble bee social organization shaped by adaptations to cold climates	10
Advances in monitoring of indoor pests	10
An intricate evolutionary connection between meiotic drive and sex	10
Gene regulatory networks underlying the development and evolution of plasticity in horned beetles	10
Extrinsic and intrinsic regulation of blood feeding in mosquitoes	10
Forecasting insect dynamics in a changing world	10
Complexity, humility, and action: a current perspective on monarchs in Western North America	10
Genetic control of malaria transmission: a salivary gland-centric perspective	10
Neuroendocrine control of insect aggression: do environmental stressors modulate aggressive behavior?	10
The future of tropical insect diversity: strategies to fill data and knowledge gaps	10
Insect sex chromosome evolution: conservation, turnover, and mechanisms of dosage compensation	10
Elevated CO2, nutrition dilution, and shifts in Earth’s insect abundance	10
tRNA expression and modifications as critical components in the biology of blood-feeding arthropods	10
Parasitoids for biological control in dryland agroecosystems	9
Editorial Board	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
Dynamics of Aedes aegypti mating behaviour	9
Metal ions in the physiology of insects	9
Understanding and counteracting the denial of insect biodiversity loss	9
Heat tolerance in social insects: molecular correlates and quantitative frameworks	9
Endocrine regulation of reproductive behaviors in insects: a comprehensive review	9
Leveraging advances in RNAi and CRISPR for improved biological pest control	9
Editorial overview: Innovative approaches to insect conservation in the face of global challenges	9
Approaches to quantify and manipulate insect hormone signals	9
The expanding toolkit of insect cell culture: a new era in biotechnology	9
Mechanisms and adaptations that shape division of labour in stingless bees	9
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the effects of artificial light at night on insect populations and communities	9
Anthropogenic effects on the eco-immunology of herbivorous insects	8
Insect response to environmental metal contamination	8
Chemically mediated multitrophic interactions and their role in crop protection	8
Editorial Board	8
Evolving dynamics of Aedes-borne diseases in Africa: a cause for concern	8
Community scientists produce open data for understanding insects and climate change	8
Protecting honey bees through microbiome engineering	8
Editorial overview: Parasites/parasitoids/biological control (2024) — research advances on plant-derived food sources in biological control	8
Advances in understanding the drivers of population spatial synchrony	8
The roles of viruses in tephritid pest multitrophic interactions and an outlook for biological control	8
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Engineering new clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–mediated population control for tephritid pests	8
Evolution of chemical interactions between ants and their mutualist partners	7

Sex determination in moths and butterflies: Masculinizer as key player	7
Dramatically increased accessibility and decreased cost-per-person impacts are needed for scaling IPM in Africa	7
Parallel olfactory processing in a hemimetabolous insect	7
Endocrine regulation of beetle horn polyphenism	7
Spatiotemporal outbreak dynamics of bark and wood-boring insects	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
Institutional and policy bottlenecks to IPM	7
Chromosomal inversions and their impact on insect evolution	7
Microbe-mediated alterations in floral nectar: consequences for insect parasitoids	7
Integrating computer vision and molecular neurobiology to bridge the gap between behavior and the brain	7
Editorial overview: Social insects (2024)	7
Eco-evo-devo advances on seasonal plasticity of butterfly eyespots	7
Immune interactions between mosquitoes and microbes during midgut colonization	7
Insecticide Resistance Beyond Genetics: Integrating Microbiomes, Machine Learning, and Emerging Molecular Technologies	7
Editorial overview: The hidden engines of insect life: The cellular machinery driving physiology	7
The neurobiology of the Monarch butterfly compass	7
Semiochemicals and natural repellents in biting fly management	6
Spatial odor map formation, development, and possible function in a nocturnal insect	6
Supergenes in organismal and social development of insects: ideas and opportunities	6
Leveraging DNA repair mechanisms in genetically engineered biocontrol	6
Chilled, starved or frozen: insect mitochondrial adaptations to overcome the cold	6
Competitive interactions in insect parasitoids: effects of microbial symbionts across tritrophic levels	6
Nutrition- and hormone-controlled developmental plasticity in Blattodea	6
Genetic control strategies for population suppression in the Anopheles gambiae complex: a review of current technologies	6
Incorporating ecological realism into biological control risk assessment	6
Population genetics as a tool to understand invasion dynamics and insecticide resistance in indoor urban pest insects	6
The role of ATP-binding cassette transporters in arthropod pesticide toxicity and resistance	6
Crosstalk between environmental factors and sex determination pathway: insights from lepidopteran insects and cladoceran crustaceans	6
Integrated neural circuits of sleep and memory regulation in Drosophila	6
Neuropeptidergic regulation of insect diapause by the circadian clock	6
Interactions between insect species: their evolution and mechanistic architecture	6
Plasticity of aggregation pheromones in insects	6
Developmental genetics of cuticular micro- and nano-structures in insects	6
Developmental endocrinology of ametabolous insects — how it all started	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
Regulation of division of labor in insects: a colony-level perspective	6
Editorial overview: Aroma nudges in bugs: Sensory perception and memory in insects	6
Nutritional inequalities structure worker division of labor in social insects	6
Multimodal floral recognition by bumblebees	5
Time memory in social insects with a special focus on honey bees	5
Invasive termites and their growing global impact as major urban pests	5
Crustaceans played a primary role in establishing gamma-aminobutyric acid as a neurotransmitter	5
Microbial interactions shaping host attractiveness: insights into dynamic behavioral relationships	5
Gamma-aminobutyric acid in the honey bee mushroom bodies — is inhibition the wellspring of plasticity?	5
The evolutionary outcomes of climate-change-induced hybridization in insect populations	5
The neuronal building blocks of the navigational toolkit in the central complex of insects	5
Tracking technologies: advances driving new insights into monarch migration	5
Chromosomal rearrangements in mosquitoes: from micro- to macroevolution	5
‘Junk’ that matters: the role of transposable elements in bumblebee genome evolution	5
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Editorial overview: Special section on vector sensory ecology (2024)	5
Editorial overview: global change: coping with the complexity of interacting stressors, interacting responses, and their feedback loops	5
Ethical issues in lethal insect monitoring	5
Mosquitoes feeding on ectothermic hosts: from host seeking to pathogen transmission	5
Reproductive meltdowns underlie arthropod extinctions in the face of climate change	5
Recent advances in insect vision in a 3D world: looming stimuli and escape behaviour	5
The importance of fat accumulation and reserves for insect overwintering	5
Feasibility of sand fly control based on knowledge of sensory ecology	5
Circadian and daily rhythms of disease vector mosquitoes	5
Effects of phytochemical diversity on multitrophic interactions	5
Insect declines: challenges and solutions	5
Pathways to city dominance: the urban ant syndrome	5
Editorial overview: Current Opinion of Insect Science turns 10: updates to fields covered	5
Flourishing with sugars - following the fate of parasitoids in the field	5
Body growth and shape regulation by neuropeptides and other neuroactive peptides in insects	5
Adapting to change: bee pollinator signatures in anthropized environments	5
Novel automation, artificial intelligence, and biomimetic engineering advancements for insect studies and management	4
Conservation biological control of arthropod pests using native plants	4
Protein glycosylation in insects: types, functions, and variation	4
Chemosensory and behavioral effects of Methoprene, a commonly used juvenile hormone analog and insect pesticide	4
Urban insect bioarks of the 21st century	4
Livestock–vector interaction using volatile organic metabolites	4
Genetic architecture of morphological adaptation and plasticity in insects: gaps, biases, and future directions	4
Pests and resistance: The biology and control of supervectors and superpests	4
Neuropeptide regulations on behavioral plasticity in social insects	4
Emerging technologies for pollinator monitoring	4
Cross-talk between low temperature and other environmental factors	4
Insight into phenotypic plasticity in planthoppers	4
Learning under stress: how the insect brain copes	4
Context and the functional use of information in insect sensory ecology	4
Recent approaches lead to a deeper understanding of diverse segmentation mechanisms in insects, with a focus on the pair-rule genes	4
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and One Health — a call for action to integrate	4
Social insects in pesticide monitoring Global progress and pathways toward a multi-taxon framework with perspectives for Africa	4
Harmonising control: understanding the complex impact of pesticides on parasitoid wasps for enhanced pest management	4
Metabolic division of labor in social insects	4
Aphid wing plasticity: hormonal and epigenetic control mechanisms	4
Host–parasitoid food webs in oil palm plantations in Asia	4
Perspectives on the manipulation of mosquito hearing	4
Clines of resistance to parasitoids: the multifarious effects of temperature on defensive symbioses in insects	4
Social aphids: emerging model for studying insect sociality	4
Editorial overview: Vectors, symbionts, and pathogen interactions: prospects for controlling vector-borne diseases	4
Host–parasitoid trophic webs in complex agricultural systems	4
Editorial overview: From neurons to ecology: how sensory information guides insect behaviour	4