Current Opinion in Insect Science

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	145
Viviparity and obligate blood feeding: tsetse flies as a unique research system to study climate change	70
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?	64
Decoding sex differences: how GABA shapes Drosophila behavior	50
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly	48
Leveraging sex determination systems for genetic biocontrol of dipteran pests	47
Population dynamics and drivers of the eastern monarch (Danaus plexippus) across its full annual cycle: a cross-scale synthesis of a model migratory species	47
Untangling plastic responses to combined thermal and dietary stress in insects	41
Sex determination gene Doublesex in hemimetabolous insects	37
Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate	37
Facing the flames: insect responses to megafires and changing fire regimes	36
Dynamics and evolution of transposable elements in mosquito genomes	35
Origin of eusociality in termites: was genetic monogamy essential?	35
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling	35
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Environmentally responsive reproduction: neuroendocrine signalling and the evolution of eusociality	32
Floral nectar and honeydew microbial diversity and their role in biocontrol of insect pests and pollination	31
Tick chemosensation and implications for novel control strategies	30
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: an integrative view	30
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Aedes-borne viral disease transmission: vector dynamics, plasticity, and prospects for control	29
Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest geometrid outbreaks	29
Editorial overview: Global change biology (2023) — Novel perspectives on futures, mechanisms, and the human element of insect conservation in the Anthropocene	29
Mosquito sex determination: recent advances and applications	26
Genomics of insect natural enemies in agroecosystems	26
Experimental platforms for functional genomics in ticks	26

Parasitoid speciation and diversification	26
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Recent advances in agroecological research for increasing scope of areawide pest management of arthropods in cropping systems	24
MicroRNAs in the developmental toolbox — a comparative approach to understanding their role in regulating insect development	24
Editorial overview: Spotlight on monarch butterflies: A treasure trove of biology to preserve	24
An integrative genomic toolkit for studying the genetic, evolutionary, and molecular underpinnings of eusociality in insects	24
The evolution of queen competitions to boost productivity	24
Large-scale omics analyses of nutrition-responsive mechanisms of female germline stem cell proliferation and maintenance in Drosophila melanogaster	23
The neuroecology of olfaction in bees	23
How many times to molt? Endocrine control of moltinism in lepidopteran insects	23
Acylsugar-mediated resistance as part of a multilayered defense against thrips, orthotospoviruses, and beyond	22
Neuroanatomy of blood-feeding arthropods	22
Climate change, temperature extremes, and impacts on hyperparasitoids	22
A call to arms: novel strategies for thrips and tospovirus control	21
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Flipping indirect defense: chemical cues from natural enemies mediate multitrophic interactions	20
Metabolic command centers in Drosophila: how the fat body and oenocytes orchestrate immunity, reproduction, and aging	20
Metabolomics as a tool to elucidate biochemical cold adaptation in insects	19
Investigating the role of chemical ecology in plant-pathogen, vector, and secondary consumer interactions and their consequences for integrated pest management	19
Post-transcriptional regulation of behavior plasticity in social insects	19
Evolution of visual system specialization in predatory arthropods	19
Editorial overview: How do social insects know their tasks?	18
Repetitive DNAs: the ‘invisible’ regulators of insect adaptation and speciation	18
Induced plant resistance and its influence on natural enemy use of plant-derived foods	18
Cold-induced immune activation in chill-susceptible insects	18
Plasticity of the olfactory behaviors in Bactrocera dorsalis under various physiological states and environmental conditions	18
Editorial overview: Development and regulation: Lessons from a multispecies approach	18
The effects of urbanisation on ecological interactions	18
The monarch butterfly in Mexico: a conservation model	18
Recent advances on hormones and behavior in vertebrates: inspiration for and from invertebrate science	17
Vibration receptor organs in the insect leg: neuroanatomical diversity and functional principles	17
Microbial, genetic, and urban drivers of ant invasions	17
Foe to frenemy: predacious ant nest beetles use multiple strategies to fully integrate into ant nests	17
Insect olfactory neurons: receptors, development, and function	16
Adaptation to urban environments	16
Community change and population outbreak of grasshoppers driven by climate change	16
Honeydew management to promote biological control	16
Endocrine-disrupting effects of contaminants on communication and behaviors of insects: from molecular effects to ecological consequences	16
Prospects for application of population genetics for control of tsetse flies in Africa	15
Anticipating evolutionary responses of mosquito mating systems to population suppression with mass-reared males	15
Evolution of Odonata: genomic insights	15
Regulation of insect cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis	15
Editorial Board	15
The self as part of the sensory ecology: how behavior affects sensation from the inside out	15
Insects and microbes: best friends from the nursery	15
Editorial overview: Insecticide resistance mechanisms — from behavior and physiology to microbiome science	15
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Where do all the pests go? Understanding the genomic mechanisms of crop pest dynamics during the off-season	15
Insect visual perception and pest control: opportunities and challenges	14
Mosquito floral visitation and pollination	14
The role of insulin and octopamine in regulating energy homeostasis and locomotion in insects	13
Extracting spatial information from temporal odor patterns: insights from insects	13
Editorial overview: Classical, novel and underrated regulators of development in the omics era	13
Taste adaptations in blood-feeding arthropods: mechanisms and ecological implications	13
Pathogen within-host dynamics and disease outcome: what can we learn from insect studies?	13
A cold and quiet brain: mechanisms of insect CNS arrest at low temperatures	12
Monocot crop–aphid interactions: plant resilience and aphid adaptation	12
New insight into molecular mechanisms underlying division of labor in honeybees	12
Collective decision-making during reproduction in social insects: a conceptual model for queen supersedure in honey bees (Apis mellifera)	12
Gene editing in agricultural, health, and veterinary pest arthropods: recent advances	12
Biogenic amines in honey bee cognition: neurochemical pathways and stress impacts	12
Beyond the bite: how mosquito salivary proteins modulate midgut biology and malaria parasite transmission	12
Interactions between parasitism and migration in monarch butterflies	12
Behavioral, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying caterpillar-ant symbioses	12
Advances in data-collection tools and analytics for crop pest and disease management	11
Global change and adaptive biosecurity: managing current and emerging Aleurocanthus woglumi threats to Europe	11
Advances in monitoring of indoor pests	11
Heat stress and host–parasitoid interactions: lessons and opportunities in a changing climate	11
Genomics reveals widespread hybridization across insects with ramifications for species boundaries and invasive species	11
Chemical ecology of nectar–mosquito interactions: recent advances and future directions	11
Invasive indoor pests under the microbiological lens: bacterial and viral diversity from local to global scales in bed bugs and cockroaches	11
Phenomenon of reproductive plasticity in ants	11
Chemically mediated trophic interactions of invasive herbivorous insects and their applications for monitoring and management	11
Editorial overview: Adaptive genomic of economically important insects	11
Editorial overview: Arthropod population dynamics at regional scales: Novel approaches and emerging insights	11
Complexity, humility, and action: a current perspective on monarchs in Western North America	10
Neuroendocrine control of insect aggression: do environmental stressors modulate aggressive behavior?	10
Extrinsic and intrinsic regulation of blood feeding in mosquitoes	10
Insect sex chromosome evolution: conservation, turnover, and mechanisms of dosage compensation	10
Gene regulatory networks underlying the development and evolution of plasticity in horned beetles	10
tRNA expression and modifications as critical components in the biology of blood-feeding arthropods	10
Genetic control of malaria transmission: a salivary gland-centric perspective	10
Elevated CO2, nutrition dilution, and shifts in Earth’s insect abundance	10
Molecular physiology of copper in Drosophila melanogaster	10
Oviposition decisions under environment-induced physiological stress in parasitoids	10
Insecticide resistance in social insects: assumptions, realities, and possibilities	10
An intricate evolutionary connection between meiotic drive and sex	10
Exotic bees in urban ecosystems: establishment, impact, and potential for invasion	9
Daily temperature fluctuations can magnify the toxicity of pesticides	9
Approaches to quantify and manipulate insect hormone signals	9
Mechanisms and adaptations that shape division of labour in stingless bees	9
Heat tolerance in social insects: molecular correlates and quantitative frameworks	9
Like a moth to a flame: the effect of megafires on pollinators and pollination systems	9
The future of tropical insect diversity: strategies to fill data and knowledge gaps	9
Editorial overview: Innovative approaches to insect conservation in the face of global challenges	9
Parasitoids for biological control in dryland agroecosystems	9
The expanding toolkit of insect cell culture: a new era in biotechnology	9
Is the evolution of insect odorscapes under anthropic pressures a risk for herbivorous insect invasions?	9
Ice queens: bumble bee social organization shaped by adaptations to cold climates	9
Metal ions in the physiology of insects	9
Forecasting insect dynamics in a changing world	9
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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
Editorial overview: Parasites/parasitoids/biological control (2024) — research advances on plant-derived food sources in biological control	8
Community scientists produce open data for understanding insects and climate change	8
Chemically mediated multitrophic interactions and their role in crop protection	8
Protecting honey bees through microbiome engineering	8
Endocrine regulation of reproductive behaviors in insects: a comprehensive review	8
Dynamics of Aedes aegypti mating behaviour	8
The roles of viruses in tephritid pest multitrophic interactions and an outlook for biological control	8
Anthropogenic effects on the eco-immunology of herbivorous insects	8
Leveraging advances in RNAi and CRISPR for improved biological pest control	8
Evolving dynamics of Aedes-borne diseases in Africa: a cause for concern	8
Advances in understanding the drivers of population spatial synchrony	8
Editorial overview: Social insects (2024)	7
Evolution of chemical interactions between ants and their mutualist partners	7
Institutional and policy bottlenecks to IPM	7
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Sex determination in moths and butterflies: Masculinizer as key player	7
The dose makes the poison: plant toxin concentrations and herbivore immunity against pathogens and parasitoids	7
Immune interactions between mosquitoes and microbes during midgut colonization	7
Engineering new clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–mediated population control for tephritid pests	7
Parallel evolutionary paths of rove beetle myrmecophiles: replaying a deep-time tape of life	7
NLRs are highly relevant resistance genes for aphid pests	7
Strengthening adult mosquito surveillance in Africa for disease control: learning from the present	6
Plasticity of aggregation pheromones in insects	6

Parallel olfactory processing in a hemimetabolous insect	6
Independent somatic distribution of heme and iron in ticks	6
Interactions between insect species: their evolution and mechanistic architecture	6
The role of ATP-binding cassette transporters in arthropod pesticide toxicity and resistance	6
Developmental genetics of cuticular micro- and nano-structures in insects	6
Nutrition- and hormone-controlled developmental plasticity in Blattodea	6
Spatiotemporal outbreak dynamics of bark and wood-boring insects	6
Dramatically increased accessibility and decreased cost-per-person impacts are needed for scaling IPM in Africa	6
Chromosomal inversions and their impact on insect evolution	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
Integrated neural circuits of sleep and memory regulation in Drosophila	6
Leveraging DNA repair mechanisms in genetically engineered biocontrol	6
Chilled, starved or frozen: insect mitochondrial adaptations to overcome the cold	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
Microbe-mediated alterations in floral nectar: consequences for insect parasitoids	6
Spatial odor map formation, development, and possible function in a nocturnal insect	6
Reproductive meltdowns underlie arthropod extinctions in the face of climate change	6
Semiochemicals and natural repellents in biting fly management	6
Population genetics as a tool to understand invasion dynamics and insecticide resistance in indoor urban pest insects	6
Competitive interactions in insect parasitoids: effects of microbial symbionts across tritrophic levels	6
Crosstalk between environmental factors and sex determination pathway: insights from lepidopteran insects and cladoceran crustaceans	6
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
Climate change interacts with insect biogeomorphic agents to alter physical and ecological processes	5
The neuronal building blocks of the navigational toolkit in the central complex of insects	5
Chromosomal rearrangements in mosquitoes: from micro- to macroevolution	5
Editorial overview: Special section on vector sensory ecology (2024)	5
Effects of phytochemical diversity on multitrophic interactions	5
Exploring new genomic territories with emerging model insects	5
The evolutionary outcomes of climate-change-induced hybridization in insect populations	5
Mosquitoes feeding on ectothermic hosts: from host seeking to pathogen transmission	5
Nutritional inequalities structure worker division of labor in social insects	5
Supergenes in organismal and social development of insects: ideas and opportunities	5
Editorial overview: Current Opinion of Insect Science turns 10: updates to fields covered	5
Recent advances in insect vision in a 3D world: looming stimuli and escape behaviour	5
‘Junk’ that matters: the role of transposable elements in bumblebee genome evolution	5
Time memory in social insects with a special focus on honey bees	5
Flourishing with sugars - following the fate of parasitoids in the field	5
Crustaceans played a primary role in establishing gamma-aminobutyric acid as a neurotransmitter	5
Thermal biology of invasive Aedes mosquitoes in the context of climate change	5
Microbial interactions shaping host attractiveness: insights into dynamic behavioral relationships	5
Neuropeptidergic regulation of insect diapause by the circadian clock	5
Recent advances in understanding horn formation in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus using next-generation sequencing technology	5
Editorial overview: global change: coping with the complexity of interacting stressors, interacting responses, and their feedback loops	5
Adapting to change: bee pollinator signatures in anthropized environments	5
Tracking technologies: advances driving new insights into monarch migration	5
Genetic architecture of morphological adaptation and plasticity in insects: gaps, biases, and future directions	5
Invasive termites and their growing global impact as major urban pests	5
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Ethical issues in lethal insect monitoring	5
Pathways to city dominance: The urban ant syndrome	5
Pests and resistance: The biology and control of supervectors and superpests	4
Editorial overview: Vectors, symbionts, and pathogen interactions: prospects for controlling vector-borne diseases	4
The importance of fat accumulation and reserves for insect overwintering	4
Circadian and daily rhythms of disease vector mosquitoes	4
Social aphids: emerging model for studying insect sociality	4
Context and the functional use of information in insect sensory ecology	4
Host–parasitoid food webs in oil palm plantations in Asia	4
Harmonising control: understanding the complex impact of pesticides on parasitoid wasps for enhanced pest management	4
Agonist-dependent action of the juvenile hormone receptor	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
Feasibility of sand fly control based on knowledge of sensory ecology	4
Host–parasitoid trophic webs in complex agricultural systems	4
Learning under stress: how the insect brain copes	4
Cross-talk between low temperature and other environmental factors	4
Emerging technologies for pollinator monitoring	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
Recent approaches lead to a deeper understanding of diverse segmentation mechanisms in insects, with a focus on the pair-rule genes	4
Livestock–vector interaction using volatile organic metabolites	4
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and One Health — a call for action to integrate	4
Multimodal floral recognition by bumblebees	4
An integrative framework for tick management: the need to connect wildlife science, One Health, and interdisciplinary perspectives	4
Insight into phenotypic plasticity in planthoppers	4
Neuropeptide regulations on behavioral plasticity in social insects	4
Life cycle complexity drives variation in thermal tolerance and plasticity	4