Current Opinion in Insect Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Insect Science is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Institutional and policy bottlenecks to IPM83
Pathogen within-host dynamics and disease outcome: what can we learn from insect studies?75
Publisher's Note74
Foreword71
Blowfly genomics: current insights, knowledge gaps, and future perspectives67
Time memory in social insects with a special focus on honey bees67
Editorial overview: Special section on vector sensory ecology (2024)62
Editorial overview: Classical, novel and underrated regulators of development in the omics era61
Semiochemicals modulating bed bug behaviour58
Editorial Board57
Evolution of chemical interactions between ants and their mutualist partners55
Editorial Board54
Decoding sex differences: how GABA shapes Drosophila behavior48
Global change in marine coastal habitats impacts insect populations and communities47
Chemical communication in ant-hemipteran mutualism: potential implications for ant invasions47
The social brain of ‘non-eusocial’ insects47
Impact of parasitoid-associated polydnaviruses on plant-mediated herbivore interactions45
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling44
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?42
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly42
Parallel evolutionary paths of rove beetle myrmecophiles: replaying a deep-time tape of life40
‘Junk’ that matters: the role of transposable elements in bumblebee genome evolution40
Monocot crop–aphid interactions: plant resilience and aphid adaptation39
Extracting spatial information from temporal odor patterns: insights from insects39
Immune interactions between mosquitoes and microbes during midgut colonization36
Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate36
The impact of volatiles on tick-host interaction and vector competence36
Tracking technologies: advances driving new insights into monarch migration35
The benefits to sub-Saharan Africa of the biological control of weeds: already considerable, but could be far greater35
Glucose aversion: a behavioral resistance mechanism in the German cockroach34
Population dynamics and drivers of the eastern monarch (Danaus plexippus) across its full annual cycle: a cross-scale synthesis of a model migratory species33
Facing the flames: insect responses to megafires and changing fire regimes33
Microbiome toxicology — bacterial activation and detoxification of insecticidal compounds32
Towards integrated pest and pollinator management in tropical crops29
Addressing context dependence in studies of plant diversity to improve the understanding of natural enemy conservation29
Editorial Board29
Editorial Board29
The within-host ecology of insects and their parasites: integrating experiments and mathematical models28
Emerging patterns in social wasp invasions28
Insect resistance management facing African smallholder farmers under climate change26
Editorial overview: Diverse actions of GABA in insect nervous systems25
Feasibility of sand fly control based on knowledge of sensory ecology25
Potential distribution of invasive crop pests under climate change: incorporating mitigation responses of insects into prediction models25
Beyond the Bite: How Mosquito Salivary Proteins Modulate Midgut Biology and Malaria Parasite Transmission24
The case for integrated pest management in Africa: transition from a pesticide-based approach24
Food web engineering: ecology and evolution to improve biological pest control24
Untangling plastic responses to combined thermal and dietary stress in insects24
Circadian and daily rhythms of disease vector mosquitoes24
How protection of honey bees can help and hinder bee conservation23
Contaminant fluxes across ecosystems mediated by aquatic insects22
Multimodal floral recognition by bumblebees22
Microbial influence on reproduction, conversion, and growth of mass produced insects22
Aphid hologenomics: current status and future challenges22
Using AI to prevent the insect apocalypse: toward new environmental risk assessment procedures21
The importance of fat accumulation and reserves for insect overwintering21
New insight into molecular mechanisms underlying division of labor in honeybees21
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and One Health — a call for action to integrate21
Adaptations and counter-adaptations in Drosophila host–parasitoid interactions: advances in the molecular mechanisms20
Host plant resistance in wheat to barley yellow dwarf viruses and their aphid vectors: a review20
Impact of the social environment in insect sensory systems19
Epigenetic processes in insect adaptation to environmental stress19
Viviparity and obligate blood feeding: tsetse flies as a unique research system to study climate change19
A role for glia in cellular and systemic metabolism: insights from the fly18
RNA virus EVEs in insect genomes18
Endogenous viral elements in mosquito genomes: current knowledge and outstanding questions18
Behavioral, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying caterpillar-ant symbioses18
Hybridization and invasiveness in social insects — The good, the bad and the hybrid18
VectorBase.org updates: bioinformatic resources for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens and related organisms18
Editorial Board17
An insect’s energy bar: the potential role of plant guttation on biological control17
Highlights, challenges, and perspectives in basic and applied chemical ecology of triatomines17
NLRs are highly relevant resistance genes for aphid pests17
Editorial overview: Vectors, symbionts, and pathogen interactions: prospects for controlling vector-borne diseases17
Metal ions in insect reproduction: a crosstalk between reproductive physiology and immunity17
An integrative framework for tick management: the need to connect wildlife science, One Health, and interdisciplinary perspectives16
Advances in research on arboviral acquisition from hosts to mosquitoes16
Neuropeptide regulations on behavioral plasticity in social insects16
Microbe-mediated alterations in floral nectar: consequences for insect parasitoids16
Chemically mediated trophic interactions of invasive herbivorous insects and their applications for monitoring and management16
Genomic complexity of parasites and vectors challenges malaria control in Southeast Asia16
Parasitoid speciation and diversification16
Editorial overview: From neurons to ecology: how sensory information guides insect behaviour15
Molecular physiology of manganese in insects15
Newer characters, same story: neonicotinoid insecticides disrupt food webs through direct and indirect effects15
Host–parasitoid trophic webs in complex agricultural systems15
Regional dynamics of tick vectors of human disease14
The sustainability of industrial insect mass rearing for food and feed production: zero waste goals through by-product utilization14
Genomics reveals widespread hybridization across insects with ramifications for species boundaries and invasive species14
Firefly genomes illuminate the evolution of beetle bioluminescent systems14
Emerging technologies for pollinator monitoring14
Context and the functional use of information in insect sensory ecology14
Body part-specific development in termite caste differentiation: crosstalk between hormonal actions and developmental toolkit genes14
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: an integrative view13
Gene editing in agricultural, health, and veterinary pest arthropods: recent advances13
Parasitoid–host association in invaded communities13
Integrating computer vision and molecular neurobiology to bridge the gap between behavior and the brain13
Clines of resistance to parasitoids: the multifarious effects of temperature on defensive symbioses in insects13
Collective decision-making during reproduction in social insects: a conceptual model for queen supersedure in honey bees (Apis mellifera)13
Defining cell types and lineage in the Drosophila midgut using single cell transcriptomics12
Molecular basis for epithelial morphogenesis and ion transport in the Malpighian tubule12
Conflicts of interest and improvement through peer review: the case of IPBES report on pollinators12
Plant Resistance to Cereal and Food Legume Insect pests in North Africa, West and Central Asia: Challenges and Achievements12
Chromosomal inversions and their impact on insect evolution12
The complexity of global change and its effects on insects12
Experimental platforms for functional genomics in ticks11
Termite primary queen — ancestral, but highly specialized eusocial phenotype11
Agonist-dependent action of the juvenile hormone receptor11
Interactions between parasitism and migration in monarch butterflies11
The neurobiology of the Monarch butterfly compass11
Chemical ecology of nectar–mosquito interactions: recent advances and future directions11
Phenomenon of reproductive plasticity in ants11
Dramatically increased accessibility and decreased cost-per-person impacts are needed for scaling IPM in Africa11
Strengthening adult mosquito surveillance in Africa for disease control: learning from the present11
Social aphids: emerging model for studying insect sociality11
Parallel olfactory processing in a hemimetabolous insect11
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Aedes-borne viral disease transmission: vector dynamics, plasticity, and prospects for control10
Environmentally responsive reproduction: neuroendocrine signalling and the evolution of eusociality10
Urban insect bioarks of the 21st century10
Transporters and tubule crystals in the insect Malpighian tubule10
Global change calls for novel plant protection: reviewing the potential of omnivorous plant-inhabiting arthropods as predators and plant defence inducers10
Variations on a theme: factors regulating interaction between Diaphorina citri and “Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus” vector and pathogen of citrus huanglongbing10
The variable effects of global change on insect mutualisms10
Polarization vision in invertebrates: beyond the boundaries of navigation10
Advances in data-collection tools and analytics for crop pest and disease management10
Chilled, starved or frozen: insect mitochondrial adaptations to overcome the cold10
Editorial overview: Insect neuroscience: roads less travelled9
Pests and resistance: The biology and control of supervectors and superpests9
Integrated management of Spodoptera frugiperda 6 years post detection in Africa: a review9
Recent approaches lead to a deeper understanding of diverse segmentation mechanisms in insects, with a focus on the pair-rule genes9
Invasive ant establishment, spread, and management with changing climate9
Harnessing artificial intelligence for analysing the impacts of nectar and pollen feeding in conservation biological control9
Evolutionary history of interactions among terrestrial arthropods9
Breeding structure and invasiveness in social insects9
Floral nectar and honeydew microbial diversity and their role in biocontrol of insect pests and pollination9
Editorial Board9
Editorial overview: Insect neuroethology: More than behavior and neurons9
Sensory mechanisms for the shift from phytophagy to haematophagy in mosquitoes9
Urbanization as a disrupter and facilitator of insect herbivore behaviors and life cycles9
The importance of eco-evolutionary dynamics for predicting and managing insect range shifts9
Genomics and genome editing techniques of crickets, an emerging model insect for biology and food science8
The expanding role of movement behavior in insect conservation ecology8
Plasticity of aggregation pheromones in insects8
Bracoviruses, ichnoviruses, and virus-like particles from parasitoid wasps retain many features of their virus ancestors8
Yeast–nectar interactions: metacommunities and effects on pollinators8
Wolbachia-based strategies for control of agricultural pests8
Heat stress and host–parasitoid interactions: lessons and opportunities in a changing climate8
Tick chemosensation and implications for novel control strategies8
Host location by arthropod vectors: are microorganisms in control?8
Editorial overview: Global change biology (2023) — Novel perspectives on futures, mechanisms, and the human element of insect conservation in the Anthropocene8
The developmental and genetic basis of male genitalia evolution in Drosophilids8
Spatiotemporal outbreak dynamics of bark and wood-boring insects8
Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest geometrid outbreaks8
Global change and adaptive biosecurity: managing current and emerging Aleurocanthus woglumi threats to Europe8
Genomics of insect natural enemies in agroecosystems8
Livestock–vector interaction using volatile organic metabolites8
Nutritional ecology, infection and immune defence — exploring the mechanisms8
Recent advances in the study of knockdown resistance mutations in Aedes mosquitoes with a focus on several remarkable mutations7
Pollinator conservation requires a stronger and broader application of the precautionary principle7
Tripartite interactions: how immunity, microbiota and pathogens interact and affect pathogen virulence evolution7
Behavioral resistance to insecticides: current understanding, challenges, and future directions7
Editorial overview: Development and regulation: EvoDevo and extended perspectives7
A cold and quiet brain: mechanisms of insect CNS arrest at low temperatures7
Influence of parasitoid-associated viral symbionts on plant–insect interactions and biological control7
Resistance to the wheat curl mite and mite-transmitted viruses: challenges and future directions7
Heat of the moment: extreme heat poses a risk to bee–plant interactions and crop yields7
Anthropogenic noise affects insect and arachnid behavior, thus changing interactions within and between species7
Plant volatiles as regulators of plant defense and herbivore immunity: molecular mechanisms and unanswered questions7
New tools for Aedes control: mass trapping7
The role of ATP-binding cassette transporters in arthropod pesticide toxicity and resistance6
Host–parasitoid food webs in oil palm plantations in Asia6
Harmonising control: understanding the complex impact of pesticides on parasitoid wasps for enhanced pest management6
Complexity, humility, and action: a current perspective on monarchs in Western North America6
Tick symbiosis6
Serotonergic Modulation of Olfactory Processing in Locust Antennae6
Elevated CO2, nutrition dilution, and shifts in Earth’s insect abundance6
Integrated neural circuits of sleep and memory regulation in Drosophila6
How does communication evolve? Insights from geographic variation in facial signaling in Polistes paper wasps6
Editorial overview: Tripartite interactions: microbial influencers of plant–pollinator interactions6
An integrative genomic toolkit for studying the genetic, evolutionary, and molecular underpinnings of eusociality in insects6
Developing attractants and repellents for ticks: promises and challenges6
Large-scale omics analyses of nutrition-responsive mechanisms of female germline stem cell proliferation and maintenance in Drosophila melanogaster6
Perspectives on the manipulation of mosquito hearing6
Cross-talk between low temperature and other environmental factors6
Insecticide resistance in social insects: assumptions, realities, and possibilities6
Insight into phenotypic plasticity in planthoppers6
Molecular physiology of zinc in Drosophila melanogaster5
Recent advances on the influence of fipronil on insect behavior5
Aphid resistance is the future for soybean production, and has been since 2004: efforts towards a wider use of host plant resistance in soybean5
Independent somatic distribution of heme and iron in ticks5
Metabolic division of labor in social insects5
Interactions and toxicity of non-essential heavy metals (Cd, Pb and Hg): lessons from Drosophila melanogaster5
Mechanisms of nitrogen excretion in insects5
Genomics of the semi-aquatic bugs (Heteroptera; Gerromorpha): recent advances toward establishing a model lineage for the study of phenotypic evolution5
The neuroecology of olfaction in bees5
Advances in understanding and predicting the spread of invading insect populations5
Conservation biological control of arthropod pests using native plants5
Recent approaches to study the neural bases of complex insect behavior5
Spatial odor map formation, development, and possible function in a nocturnal insect4
Evolutionary psychology of entomophobia and its implications for insect conservation4
Editorial Board4
Plant–pollinator conservation from the perspective of systems-ecology4
Recent advances in agroecological research for increasing scope of areawide pest management of arthropods in cropping systems4
Novel automation, artificial intelligence, and biomimetic engineering advancements for insect studies and management4
Function and mechanisms in defence strategies4
Nutrition- and hormone-controlled developmental plasticity in Blattodea4
Climate change, temperature extremes, and impacts on hyperparasitoids4
Molecular physiology of copper in Drosophila melanogaster4
Population genetics as a tool to understand invasion dynamics and insecticide resistance in indoor urban pest insects4
Acylsugar-mediated resistance as part of a multilayered defense against thrips, orthotospoviruses, and beyond4
Editorial overview: Arthropod population dynamics at regional scales: Novel approaches and emerging insights4
Editorial overview: Spotlight on monarch butterflies: A treasure trove of biology to preserve4
Oviposition decisions under environment-induced physiological stress in parasitoids4
Regulation and biological function of metal ions in Drosophila4
Editorial Board4
Editorial overview: The time is ripe for expanded research on mass production of insects as food and feed4
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Chironomid midges (Diptera) provide insights into genome evolution in extreme environments3
Nutritional inequalities structure worker division of labor in social insects3
The neural basis of interspecies interactions in insects3
Conventional breeding of insect-resistant crop plants: still the best way to feed the world population3
How does climate change affect social insects?3
Impact of symbiotic insect-specific viruses on mosquito vector competence for arboviruses3
Regulation of division of labor in insects: a colony-level perspective3
Pollinator decline: what do we know about the drivers of solitary bee declines?3
Floral traits affecting the transmission of beneficial and pathogenic pollinator-associated microbes3
Investigating the role of chemical ecology in plant-pathogen, vector, and secondary consumer interactions and their consequences for integrated pest management3
From Wolbachia genomics to phenotype: molecular models of cytoplasmic incompatibility must account for the multiplicity of compatibility types3
Updates on ion and water transport by the Malpighian tubule3
Evolution and molecular mechanisms of wing plasticity in aphids3
Evolution of insect metamorphosis — an update3
Gene regulatory networks underlying the development and evolution of plasticity in horned beetles3
Competitive interactions in insect parasitoids: effects of microbial symbionts across tritrophic levels3
Processing insects for use in the food and feed industry3
Developmental genetics of cuticular micro- and nano-structures in insects3
Microbes and pollinator behavior in the floral marketplace3
Building effective policies to conserve pollinators: translating knowledge into policy3
Impact of invasive insects on native insect communities3
Classical biological of key horticultural pests in Africa: successes, challenges, and opportunities3
Interplay between gut symbionts and behavioral variation in social insects3
Chemical host-seeking cues of entomopathogenic nematodes3
Supergenes in organismal and social development of insects: ideas and opportunities3
Do amateurs and citizen science fill the gaps left by scientists?3
Inhibitory signaling in collective social insect networks, is it indeed uncommon?3
Innovations in Varroa mite management3
Predicting ecological impacts of invasive termites3
Recent advances and avenues for the pest management of invasive social wasps and hornets3
Direct and indirect effects of altered temperature regimes and phenological mismatches on insect populations3
Post-transcriptional regulation of behavior plasticity in social insects3
Integrating microbes into pollination3
Habitat-centric versus species-centric approaches to edible insects for food and feed3
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