Written by Rahul Pereira
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
The diversity of ground beetles (Carabidae) was analyzed in meadow ecosystems within central European Russia, focusing on the Nizhniy Novgorod region and the Republic of Mordovia. 17 sites were investigated, with the meadows categorized into 4 types: wet floodplain meadows, dry meadows, dry meadows near forest shelter-belts, and floodplain meadows impacted by livestock grazing. The highest species diversity was observed in dry meadows near forest shelter belts (65 species) and wet floodplain mea
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Written by Rahul Ramirez
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
Mosquito control is a key method for managing diseases transmitted by these insects, and targeting their early life stages offers several advantages, such as ease of application and greater susceptibility to environmental and chemical factors. This study aimed to investigate the chemical constituents and the larvicidal effects of ethanolic extracts from the leaves and flowers of Ocimum basilicum on mosquito larvae. Fresh O. basilicum was harvested, dried for one week in the shade, and then extra
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Written by Mei Silva
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
This study consolidates existing knowledge on the millipede fauna (Diplopoda) of the Stavropol Territory and examines their distribution patterns across the region. The analysis draws from research spanning over a century (1897–2021) and incorporates previously unpublished records from the Stavropol Territory and North Ossetia–Alania. A total of 27 millipede species have been identified, representing twenty genera, 8 families, and 5 orders. Notably, Polydesmus stuxbergi Attems, 1907 was reported
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Written by Lina Alvarez
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
This study provides the first detailed anatomical and histological examination of the alimentary canal in the final instar larva of Deudorix isocrates (Fab.), a topic previously unexplored. The alimentary canal is divided into three main sections: the foregut, the midgut, and the hindgut. The foregut consists of the buccal cavity, esophagus, pharynx, and crop. The buccal cavity, pharynx, and esophagus walls are lined with cuboidal epithelium, forming 6 longitudinal folds. The posterior pharynx i
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Written by Sarah D. Alvarez
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
Tree holes are formed by environmental factors and biotic pressures and provide a unique environment for the development of insect larvae. These water-filled cavities, or their equivalents, are considered natural microhabitats due to their simplicity, small size, clear boundaries, and inherent replication. This study aimed to investigate the ecology of tree holes in different tree species, along with the distribution and diversity of insect larvae. Eight tree species with tree holes were identif
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Written by Ana Rodrigues
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
Environmental uncertainty challenges insects because survival and reproduction depend on coordinating multiple life-history processes that are influenced by different ecological cues and physiological constraints. Development time, fecundity, dispersal, and survival are often examined separately, although evidence indicates that they may respond to overlapping environmental information while remaining partially independent. This article develops a conceptual model proposing that these traits for
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Written by Krzysztof Wiśniewski
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
Diapause is commonly described through its environmental triggers, endocrine regulation, and developmental consequences, yet these perspectives often treat initiation, persistence, and termination as partially independent phenomena. This article proposes that insect diapause can be interpreted as a sequence of information-processing decisions in which environmental signals are acquired, evaluated, retained through physiological state, and reassessed before developmental reactivation. The framewo
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Written by Ahmed Ben Ali
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
Maternal effects are a major route by which environmental variation experienced in one generation can influence the phenotype of the next, but their evolutionary interpretation is often stronger than the evidence permits. In insects, mothers can alter offspring development, diapause, thermal tolerance, immunity, morphology, allocation, and stress responses through behavioral, endocrine, nutritional, molecular, and immune routes. Yet cross-generational phenotype change does not by itself demonstr
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Written by Peter Nilsson
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
Adult insect body size is commonly treated as an integrated indicator of developmental conditions, resource availability, or organismal quality. Such interpretations become problematic when acquired resources can be diverted among structural growth, stored reserves, locomotor machinery, reproduction, stress resistance, and somatic maintenance. Here, we develop a mechanistic model in which insect body size emerges from conditional allocation rather than from resource acquisition alone. The model
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Written by James O'Leary
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
Insects rarely navigate with a single perfectly informative signal. Self-motion, terrestrial structure, celestial information, wind, airflow, optic flow and other cues differ in availability, persistence and usefulness across habitats and tasks. The central theoretical problem is therefore not simply how insects detect cues, but how navigational systems preserve useful behavior when information is incomplete, conflicting or valid only over limited spatial and temporal ranges. This behavioral fra
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Written by Lukas Weber
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
Insect foraging decisions are commonly interpreted through energetic demand, resource quality, and environmental risk, yet reproduction changes both what resources are worth and what costs can be tolerated. Treating reproductive state as a single scalar such as mating status or egg load obscures this conditionality. Evidence across insects shows that mating, nutritional state, egg limitation, resource quality, predation, sexual interference, and future reproductive opportunity can each alter beh
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Written by Maria Gonzales
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
Collective insect decisions are often described as products of simple rules executed by many individuals, yet this formulation obscures how local state, interaction topology, signal transfer, inhibition, and thresholding jointly determine group outcomes. This conceptual synthesis develops a proposed distributed-decision architecture in which colony-level or aggregation-level decisions arise from locally accessible information rather than centralized assessment, while allowing individual influenc
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Written by Patrick O'Connor
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
Insects repeatedly encounter resources, hosts, hazards and landmarks whose value changes through time. Prior experience can therefore modify later movement, yet memory is commonly treated either as a cognitive trait or as a local behavioral mechanism without asking when its effects become ecologically consequential. This perspective uses ecological memory for retained information generated by an individual’s previous interaction with its environment that changes subsequent search, route use or s
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Written by Gabriel Costa
Published on Vol 2 Issue 1, 2022
Integrative insect systematics increasingly combines mitochondrial barcodes, multilocus or genomic data, morphology, geography, ecology and reproductive information, yet species-delimitation outputs are still often presented as if they directly reveal species boundaries. This methodological framework argues that delimitation is more transparent when treated as model choice: investigators specify competing species hypotheses, state the assumptions connecting each evidence class to those hypothese
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Since 2020, Eurasia Specialized Veterinary Publication has been dedicated to publishing rigorous scientific research in veterinary medicine, entomology, animal health, and related disciplines. Our journals offer a peer-reviewed home for original research, review articles, and short communications, spanning veterinary and clinical sciences, animal health and disease management, pathology, pharmacology, diagnostics, zoonotic diseases, epidemiology, and public health. Our entomology titles bring together work on insect biology, ecology and behavior, taxonomy and systematics, physiology, biodiversity and conservation, pest management, and medical and veterinary entomology. We also welcome interdisciplinary research that explores the connections between animal, human, insect, and environmental health — work that reflects the reality that these fields rarely stand apart from one another. In all that we publish, our aim remains the same: to support the exchange of meaningful, practical scientific knowledge within the international research community.
