Written by James U. Alvarez
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Lasioderma serricorne (F.) (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) is widely recognized as the most harmful pest in the cigarette production industry. Beta-cyfluthrin, a synthetic pyrethroid, has long been used as an effective pesticide to control L. serricorne in cigarette and food processing facilities. This study aimed to evaluate the resistance of L. serricorne populations collected from the Hefei cigarette factory to beta-cyfluthrin and their response to imidacloprid, an alternative insecticide. The findin
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Written by Camila L. Nakamura
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
This study provides a detailed analysis of the male reproductive system of Mylabris cernyi, contributing to a broader understanding of the morphology of the blister beetle. The male reproductive system of M. cernyi consists of an aedeagus, 2 seminal vesicles, 2 vasa deferentia, an ejaculatory duct, 3 pairs of accessory glands, and 2 testes. We examined the structure of these organs using optical and electron microscopy. The testes contain 14–15 radially arranged follicles, with distinct maturati
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Written by Hiroshi T. Sato
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
This study examines the butterfly diversity of Chilkigarh, a heritage village and a well-known tourist attraction in the Jhargram subdivision of West Bengal, India. Using standard sampling methods, various diversity indices were assessed to analyze the butterfly community composition. During a year (December 2021 to November 2022), a total of 59 species from 6 families and 14 subfamilies were recorded, with a significant species-to-genus ratio of 1.31:1. Among them, 11 species are listed under v
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Written by Marco Ramirez
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Plant essential oils, with their rapid breakdown, low toxicity, and environmental safety, serve as a promising natural alternative for pest control. This study investigates the insecticidal potential of Eucalyptus and Zataria essential oils against Macrosiphum euphorbiae. The oils were extracted by water distillation using a Clevenger device, and bioassay tests were performed on adult specimens at different concentrations. Probit analysis determined the LC50 and LC90 values for eucalyptus oil at
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Written by Hassan Ali
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Resilience in insect life histories is often inferred from the capacity to survive or maintain function during environmental stress. This resistance-centered interpretation is incomplete because organisms that survive the same disturbance can differ markedly in reproductive damage, recovery time, compensatory allocation, persistent costs, and subsequent responses. Here, a multidimensional resilience-state framework is developed to distinguish resistance from immediate recovery, delayed recovery,
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Written by Khaled Mahfouz
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Thermal biology commonly represents insect environments by mean temperature, yet insects develop within sequences of temperatures whose amplitude, duration, order, and recovery intervals can alter biological responses even when means are identical. This theoretical framework evaluates why thermal history should be treated as an ordered biological exposure rather than as variance surrounding a mean. Evidence across insects indicates that fluctuating regimes can accelerate, retard, improve, impair
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Written by Thomas Andersen
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Reproduction in insects is commonly interpreted through pairwise trade-offs, particularly fecundity versus survival or current versus future reproduction. Such formulations are useful but can obscure how reproductive decisions are assembled from several biologically distinct demands whose relative costs and benefits change through time. Egg production requires nutrient-specific and physiological investment; mate acquisition and mating can consume time, expose individuals to thermal or pathogenic
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Written by James Anderson
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Insect decisions are often evaluated as if behavioral variation around an apparently optimal response were measurement error, sensory failure, or imprecision. Yet natural decisions are made with incomplete and fluctuating sensory evidence, under changing reward structures and internal states, and through motor systems that can deliberately or intrinsically generate variable actions. This non-empirical behavioral theory separates decision noise by its point of entry into perception–decision–actio
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Written by Hans Müller
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Behavioral change in insects is often described either as short-lived flexibility or as an outcome of evolutionary adaptation, yet this binary obscures an intermediate class of phenomena in which learning, developmental plasticity, and socially acquired information alter behavior on ecologically relevant timescales without demonstrating contemporaneous genetic change. This perspective argues that behavioral adaptation should be treated as an evidence-bounded description of context-sensitive adju
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Written by Sofía Martínez
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Rising thermal exposure does not act on insects only through ambient climate. Fine-scale thermal heterogeneity, behavioral repositioning, and the timing of activity jointly determine realized exposure, yet these individual-level processes are often interpreted too quickly as evidence of demographic or range-level resilience. This article develops a proposed Cross-Scale Thermal Buffering Model that separates seven inferential stages: availability of usable microclimates, detection of thermal hete
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Written by Kenji Tanaka
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Complete metamorphosis is often treated either as a developmental reset that disconnects juvenile and adult phenotypes or as a stage boundary across which early-life effects simply “carry over.” Both interpretations are too coarse. Evidence from holometabolous insects shows that larval temperature, nutrition, crowding, predator exposure, microbial conditions, toxicants, and social information can influence later phenotypes, yet the affected adult traits, directions, and conditions vary markedly.
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Written by João Silva
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Anthropogenic change can alter the sensory information insects use to locate habitats, hosts, mates, refuges and seasonal environments. The ecological-trap problem arises not from attraction alone, but when a cue continues to guide selection after its relationship with habitat or resource quality has deteriorated. This ecological perspective separates cue response, behavioral selection, biological consequence and population inference. The distinction is necessary because many studies demonstrate
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Written by Emma Wilson
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Insects rarely encounter ecological information as isolated, continuously reliable signals. Visual structure, odor, airflow, heat, acoustic information and learned spatial cues vary over different distances and timescales, while the usefulness of each signal depends on the current movement task and the animal’s physiological condition. Movement models often simplify this complexity by treating cues as independent inputs or by assuming fixed cue weights. Such representations are useful for restri
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Written by Mark Anderson
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Genome-scale data have expanded the resolution of insect systematics, yet greater resolution does not guarantee that categorical species boundaries become biologically clearer. Population structure, introgression, geographic clines, recombination landscapes and marker-specific histories can generate discontinuities that are real in the data while remaining ambiguous in taxonomic meaning. This article develops a proposed threshold-sensitivity framework for deciding when genomic partitions are suf
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Written by Sara Al-Fahd
Published on Vol 5 Issue 1, 2025
Phylogenomics has expanded the scale of insect systematics, but taxonomic reproducibility requires more than rerunning a tree-building pipeline. Auditability is weakened when specimen identity, sequence processing, orthology, alignment, tree estimation, species-hypothesis formation, and nomenclatural action are disconnected across files and repositories. This article develops a proposed traceability-centered methodology in which each inferential transition remains linked to the biological and co
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