Written by Michael Sato
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
Drosophila suzukii Matsumura and Zaprionus indianus Gupta (Diptera: Drosophilidae) are invasive pests affecting fig crops in Mexico. Monitoring the density of fruit fly populations plays an important role in deciding pest management strategies. In fruit and vegetable production, food baits and traps are commonly used to monitor and control these pests. However, many local fig farmers have limited access to advanced technologies and are constantly seeking affordable and effective solutions to imp
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Written by Sofia Q. Silva
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench), a tropical grass originating from Africa, serves as a staple food source for both humans and livestock. The global expansion of sorghum cultivation, particularly in Brazil and the United States, has facilitated the spread of the sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), a highly adaptable pest. This study evaluated adult fecundity and nymphal development of M. sacchari in 12 sorghum genotypes to identify potential sources of re
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Written by Hiroshi B. Silva
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
Cashew nuts are the third most exported agricultural product in Côte d'Ivoire, though the production in the country remains limited, possibly due to factors such as inadequate pollination. This study aimed to evaluate the insects visiting the inflorescences of cashew trees in Niofoin, located in the northern region of Côte d'Ivoire. The study was conducted in a two-hectare cashew orchard, where insects attracted to the inflorescences were captured and identified. Four cashew varieties we
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Written by Rahul Weber
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
Scolytine bark beetles from the genus Tomicus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) are among the most important forestry pests globally, known for their ability to establish themselves in new environments and pose a risk to native forest ecosystems. These beetles are considered non-native to the Americas. However, Tomicus piniperda L., commonly known as the pine shoot beetle, has recently invaded North America, and specimens of T. minor Hart have been identified in the United States. Their po
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Written by Maria Ramirez
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
Between August to November (2018) and February to May (2019), 8 insect collections were made across three-grain crops—corn, wheat, and barley—at El Capulín, Salvatierra, Gto., totaling 6,596 specimens. The insect fauna included 11 orders and 59 families, of which 53 families are found in corn, 25 in wheat, and 24 in barley. The entomofauna was classified into two main functional groups based on their ecological roles and diets: 1) EFGs (ecological functional groups), which include predators, her
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Written by Luca Ferraro
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
Cryptic diversity is often discussed as though a lineage were either cryptic or not, and as though molecular discovery, species delimitation, diagnosis, and formal naming were interchangeable stages of a single decision. Recent insect systematics shows a more heterogeneous pattern. Molecular clusters may expose previously overlooked lineages, but cluster number can depend on analytical method; mitochondrial and nuclear signals may differ; morphology can contradict, corroborate, or become informa
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Written by Pieter Botha
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
Genome-scale datasets have increased phylogenetic resolution across insects, but they have also exposed persistent disagreement among loci, gene trees and genomic regions. Such discordance is often treated as an analytical defect to be filtered, down-weighted or overwhelmed by additional data. This perspective argues that this response is incomplete. In rapidly diversifying insect lineages, conflict can instead record incomplete lineage sorting, introgression, gene duplication and loss, or heter
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Written by Santiago Morales
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
Insects survive starvation, heat, and infection by reallocating substrates while maintaining cellular protection and repair. These processes are usually treated separately, obscuring that the value of a metabolic response depends on tissue demand, timing, physiological state, and damage-control capacity. This article develops a non-empirical physiological framework in which survival depends on coordination rather than maximal fuel release or indiscriminate suppression of reactive oxygen species
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Written by Nora Schneider
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
The insect fat body is conventionally described through discrete functions: nutrient storage, metabolic regulation, immune effector production, vitellogenic support, detoxification, and endocrine signaling. This partitioning is experimentally convenient but biologically incomplete because many of these functions occupy the same tissue, use overlapping molecular machinery, and change simultaneously as nutritional, reproductive, infectious, developmental, and environmental conditions shift. The re
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Written by Daniel Kim
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
Chemosensory behavior is often described as though ligand detection is translated directly into attraction, avoidance, feeding, host seeking, or other actions. That shorthand obscures a sequence of biologically distinct transformations. Receptor identity and molecular architecture constrain which chemical signals can enter the nervous system; peripheral sensory neurons regulate sensitivity and can be reshaped by diet or systemic state; first-order circuits preserve some stimulus structure while
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Written by Mateo Alvarez
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
Insect dispersal is often inferred from single traits or single movement measurements, yet realized displacement emerges from interactions among morphology, physiological capacity, behavioral propensity, and environmental opportunity. This scoping review examines how those domains have been studied together or separately and identifies the inferential limits of treating any one of them as a universal dispersal proxy. Peer-reviewed literature published during 2017–2022 was mapped using insect and
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Written by Sara Ben Youssef
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
Behavioral plasticity is frequently invoked as a means by which insects can buffer rapid climatic change, yet observed adjustment is not equivalent to successful compensation. Behavioral thermoregulation, phenological shifts, movement, and habitat choice can each alter exposure, but their consequences depend on environmental opportunity, life stage, taxon, seasonality, and the persistence of effects beyond the period in which adjustment is observed. We systematically synthesized peer-reviewed ev
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Written by Noah Williams
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
DNA barcoding has become a central component of insect identification, biodiversity inventory, reference-library construction and accelerated taxonomic workflows, yet its evidential meaning changes substantially according to the question being asked. A COI sequence may support specimen identification, reveal discordance requiring taxonomic investigation, generate a preliminary molecular cluster, or contribute to species delimitation, but these functions are not logically interchangeable. This ev
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Written by Elena Petrova
Published on Vol 2 Issue 2, 2022
Insect immunity is increasingly described in metabolic terms, yet the common language of energetic “cost” can conceal biologically different processes. Immune activation may consume substrates, redirect anabolic flux, alter endocrine signaling, restrict pathogen access to nutrients, change immune-cell metabolic state, or compete with development and reproduction for shared tissue capacities. These processes need not have equivalent organismal consequences, and their direction can change with tis
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