Written by James N. Brown
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Anomala denuda adults are not usually considered major crop pests. However, an infestation of up to 46,508 individuals was observed in a maize field in Songon, causing a yield reduction of approximately 32%. In response to the extensive damage caused by this beetle to maize crops, the objective of this study was to test the efficacy of an aqueous extract of Ricinus communis, a known pesticidal plant, in controlling A. denuda and increasing maize production. The experiment was conducted on an exp
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Written by Yuki S. Li
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Blood-sucking midges from the Simuliidae family are small dipteran insects belonging to the Nematocera suborder. They inhabit various landscapes and geographical zones throughout the Russian Federation and play an important role in medical and epidemiological contexts as hematophagous insects and disease vectors affecting both humans and animals. The species composition and population size of midges in aquatic habitats are influenced by hydrological conditions and environmental factors that infl
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Written by Jonas D. Sharma
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Cotton plays an important role in Africa's agricultural economy, yet its profitability is often challenged by high production costs. This study evaluates the cost-effectiveness of chemical insecticides—Chlorpyrifos® 480 EC, Karate® EC, and Bandit® 350 SC—against biopesticides—Eco-Bb®, Bolldex®, Delfin®, Nomu-Protec®, and Bb endophyte—in managing cotton pests. Among the tested pesticides, Delfin® incurred the highest expense at US$602, followed by Bolldex® at US$495.74, while Chlorpyrifos® wa
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Written by Carlos Taylor
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
The limitations of conventional taxonomy have left a large number of arthropods, especially insects, unidentified. Recently, DNA barcoding—an innovative approach that relies on variations within a short DNA sequence—has emerged as a powerful alternative for species identification. This review article aims to evaluate the efficacy of DNA barcoding in modern insect taxonomy and analyze its role in addressing existing taxonomic challenges. This method is recognized for its speed, accuracy, reliabil
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Written by Andreas Müller
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Genomic datasets have transformed insect systematics by increasing the resolution with which population structure, lineage divergence, introgression, discordance and cryptic diversity can be detected. Yet greater analytical resolution does not by itself make taxonomic revision more reproducible. Species boundaries remain interpretive conclusions formed from evidence under an explicit or implicit species concept, while synonymy and splitting additionally require historical names, type-associated
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Written by Maria Silva
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Insect thermal tolerance is commonly interpreted through individual responses such as heat-shock proteins, antioxidant enzymes, lipid remodeling, or metabolic adjustment. These processes, however, operate at different biological levels and need not vary together across taxa, life stages, or exposure regimes. This article develops a proposed molecular-physiological model in which thermal tolerance depends on coordinated preservation of proteome integrity, membrane and lipid state, energetic suppl
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Written by Paolo Ricci
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Insect physiology is temporally structured, yet circadian studies are commonly organized around individual outputs rather than the relationships among them. This systems perspective argues that daily coordination is better understood as distributed phase organization across molecular clocks, metabolic state, behavior, immune function, and reproduction. Evidence from Drosophila, mosquitoes, and Bombyx shows that clock networks receive multiple environmental inputs, distribute time through several
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Written by Emily Johnson
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Ion transport is commonly treated as a set of tissue-specific processes controlling excretion, osmoregulation, and ionic balance. That framing becomes incomplete when the biological question concerns whole-animal performance across contrasting insect environments. Epithelial systems that generate, recover, or redirect ionic gradients also influence osmotic water movement, extracellular ion stability, membrane function, and responses to hydric, saline, and thermal stress. Yet increased transport
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Written by Alejandro Torres
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Insect chemosensory behavior is often interpreted as though ecological decisions can be read directly from receptor identity, receptor abundance, or ligand sensitivity. That interpretation is increasingly difficult to sustain. Receptor repertoires differ in size, evolutionary history, co-expression, and functional specialization; peripheral neurons transform chemical input through receptor architecture, adaptation, and temporal coding; central circuits recode odor through inhibition, convergence
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Written by Siti Rahman
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Insect development and environmental responses are often interpreted through transcriptional change, yet transcript abundance represents only one stage of molecular regulation. Post-transcriptional processes can influence whether transcripts persist, which isoforms are produced, how RNA information is modified, which molecules are targeted by small RNAs, and how efficiently transcripts are translated. This conceptual analysis examines RNA stability and degradation, alternative splicing, RNA edit
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Written by Peter Novak
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Developmental environments can influence insect phenotypes long after the exposure itself has ended, yet persistence across metamorphosis is neither inevitable nor uniform among traits. This systematic review examines how juvenile nutritional, thermal, microbial, toxicological, competitive, and other environmental conditions translate into persistent effects, compensation, reversal, or delayed costs at later life stages. The review distinguished immediate developmental responses from cross-stage
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Written by Luis Herrera
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Artificial light at night (ALAN) changes the nocturnal environment encountered by insects, but evidence is distributed unevenly across sensory mechanisms, immediate behavior, life-history traits, ecological interactions, and population outcomes. Treating these levels as interchangeable can exaggerate demographic inference from responses measured over minutes, nights, or single life stages. This scoping review maps peer-reviewed evidence published from 2017 through 2024 concerning insect response
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Written by Omar Khalid
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Genome-scale data have transformed insect systematics by exposing population structure, cryptic lineages, introgression, discordant genealogies, and phenotypically inconspicuous divergence at unprecedented resolution. Greater resolution, however, does not make species inference self-validating. Species delimitation still requires decisions about what biological process produced an observed partition, whether apparently corroborating evidence is genuinely independent, and whether evidence support
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Written by Ivan Petrov
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Rapid insect radiations are a severe test of phylogenomic inference because large genomic matrices can yield strongly supported species-tree hypotheses while retaining extensive conflict among genes, sites, marker classes, or analytical models. This methodological review evaluates how taxon sampling, locus selection, missing data, orthology assessment, paralogy, gene-tree estimation, model choice, and introgression-aware analyses jointly condition interpretation of discordance. Evidence from aph
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Written by Juan Perez
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Desiccation tolerance in insects is frequently treated as a single physiological phenotype, although survival under water deficit can arise from fundamentally different mechanisms. Some insects primarily restrict water loss through the cuticle, respiratory system and excretory organs, whereas others tolerate substantial dehydration through osmotic adjustment, metabolic suppression and cellular protection. At the extreme, anhydrobiotic chironomids reorganize metabolism and stress signaling suffic
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Written by Elena Petrova
Published on Vol 4 Issue 2, 2024
Microorganisms associated with insects can be maternally transmitted, socially transferred, environmentally reacquired, transiently ingested, or developmentally maintained in specialized host tissues. These biologically different partnerships are often grouped under the term insect microbiome, obscuring differences in persistence, functional dependence, causal support, and ecological context. This evidence-mapping review organizes recent work around three linked questions: how microbial partners
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