Impacts of Climate Change on Chinese Cabbage (<i>Brassica rapa</i>) Yields and Damages from Insects by Dongwoo Kim, Chang-gi Back, Sojung Kim, Sumin Kim

“…Under future climate conditions, simulation results indicate that as temperatures rise, Chinese cabbage yields will likely decrease continually, with increasing plant damage from insects. The modeling results can help farmers to control and manage crop insect pests under varying environmental conditions.…”
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Heatwaves cause relative fitness decline in aquatic insects by altering life history and host–pathogen relationships by Sarah A. Taig, Galen Holt, Georgia K. Dwyer, Rebecca E. Lester

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A Rhodnius prolixus catalytically inactive Calpain protease patterns the insect embryonic dorsal-ventral axis by Alison Julio, Tainan C. Guedes-Silva, Mateus Berni, Paulo Mascarello Bisch, Helena Araujo

“…In conclusion, our results reveal that Calpains may exert a conserved function in insect DV patterning, despite the changing role of the Toll and BMP pathways in defining gene expression territories along the insect DV axis.…”
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Full life cycle assessment of insect biomass allows estimation of bioflows across water, air, and land by Chelsea R. Smith, Phillip M. Stepanian, Stephen W. Golladay, Jennifer L. Tank, Dominic T. Chaloner, Sally A. Entrekin

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Can High Temperatures Affect Body Size in Insects? The Case of Rubyspot Damselflies in the Colombian Western Andes by Cornelio A. Bota-Sierra, Adolfo Cordero-Rivera, Rodolfo Novelo-Gutiérrez, Melissa Sánchez-Herrera, Gustavo A. Londoño

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Insects in agricultural greenhouses: a metagenomic analysis of microbes in Trialeurodes vaporariorum infesting tomato and cucumber crops by Abeer Qush, Nada Assaad, Fatima Abdulla Alkhayat, Mohammed Saif Al-Kuwari, Nasser Al-Khalaf, Maya Bassil, Hadi M. Yassine, Hadi M. Yassine, Asad Zeidan, Rozaimi Razali, Rozaimi Razali, Layla Kamareddine, Layla Kamareddine

“…Yet, and despite this acknowledged success of employing greenhouses in farming, many constraints, including the presence of insect pests, still chaperoned this practice over the years, significantly impacting crop quality and production.MethodsAs such, we assessed in this study the status of “insect pests” in the greenhouse model by collecting insects from different greenhouse sectors grown with tomatoes and cucumbers and identified the collected insects using relevant identification keys. …”
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Enhancing rice disease and insect-pest detection through augmented deep learning with transfer learning techniques by Amit Bijlwan, Rajeev Ranjan, Shweta Pokhariyal, Ajit Govind, Manendra Singh, Krishna Pratap Singh, Raj Kumar Singh, Ravindra Kumar Singh Rajput, Rajeev Kumar Srivastava

“…The timely and accurate identification and prediction of crop diseases and insect pests are essential for effective crop management. …”
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From insect endosymbiont to phloem colonizer: comparative genomics unveils the lifestyle transition of phytopathogenic Arsenophonus strains by Mathieu Mahillon, Christophe Debonneville, Raphaël Groux, David Roquis, Justine Brodard, Franco Faoro, Xavier Foissac, Olivier Schumpp, Jessica Dittmer

“…Phlomobacter fragariae” (Pf) have evolved from insect endosymbionts, but the genetic mechanisms underlying this transition have not been explored. …”
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Stridulatory Organs and Sound Recognition of Three Species of Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) by Jia-Quan Wei, Xiao-Yun Wang, Xia-Lin Zheng, Xin Tong

“…Sound is an important medium of communication among insects. Some longhorn beetles produce sounds during their daily activities, and these sounds play a role in courtship, predation, and defense. …”
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Plant Functional Traits Better Explain the Global Latitudinal Patterns of Leaf Insect Herbivory than Climatic Factors by Yuhui Ji, Xiaoxu Yan, Jiali Xu, Mira Jumak, Ruizhi Zhang, Lan Wang, Jie Gao

“…Herbivory reflects the interaction between plants and insects in ecosystems, and its latitudinal patterns at the global scale have attracted widespread attention. …”
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Distribution of C30 carotenoid biosynthesis genes suggests habitat adaptation function in insect-adapted and nomadic Lactobacillaceae by Tom Eilers, Marie Legein, Jari Temmermans, Jelle Dillen, Ine Vandendriessche, Koen Sandra, Peter A. Bron, Stijn Wittouck, Sarah Lebeer

“…The phenotype was confirmed in 87% of the predicted crtMN gene carriers (27/31). Nomadic and insect-adapted species, particularly those isolated from vegetable fermentations, e.g., Lactiplantibacillus, and floral habitats, e.g., Fructilactobacillus, contained crtMN genes, while vertebrate-associated species, including vaginal associated species, lacked this trait. …”
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A versatile modular vector set for optimizing protein expression among bacterial, yeast, insect and mammalian hosts. by Márk Somogyi, Tamás Szimler, Attila Baksa, Barbara M Végh, Tamás Bakos, Katalin Paréj, Csaba Ádám, Áron Zsigmond, Márton Megyeri, Beáta Flachner, Ráchel Sajó, Éva Gráczer, Péter Závodszky, István Hajdú, László Beinrohr

“…We have developed a unified, versatile vector set for expression of recombinant proteins, fit for use in any bacterial, yeast, insect or mammalian cell host. The advantage of this system is its versatility at the vector level, achieved by the introduction of a novel expression cassette. …”
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Improving the performance of machine learning algorithms for detection of individual pests and beneficial insects using feature selection techniques by Rabiu Aminu, Samantha M. Cook, David Ljungberg, Oliver Hensel, Abozar Nasirahmadi

“…To reduce damage caused by insect pests, farmers use insecticides to protect produce from crop pests. …”
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Microsite availability, not floral herbivory, limits recruitment in peripheral native thistle populations by F. Leland Russell, Mason R. Taylor, Svata M. Louda

“…However, our ability to predict the ecological contexts in which insect herbivores will reduce plant fitness or population growth is limited. …”
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Equi‐MOI ratio for rapid baculovirus‐mediated multiprotein co‐expression in insect cells integrating selenomethionine for structural studies by Andrej Bitala, Mário Benko, Marek Nemčovič, Ivana Nemčovičová

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Chromosome‐Level Genome Assembly of the Leafcutter Bee Megachile rotundata Reveals Its Ecological Adaptation and Pollination Biology by Rangjun Shi, Pan Duan, Mengmeng Zhu, Rong Zhang, Zihua Zhao, Xin Nie, Hanhou He, Li Hou, Xianhui Wang

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This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates by John C.Z. Woinarski, Michael F. Braby, Heloise Gibb, Mark S. Harvey, Sarah M. Legge, Jessica R. Marsh, Melinda L. Moir, Tim R. New, Michael G. Rix, Brett P. Murphy

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Effects of <i>Gryllus bimaculatus</i> Powder on Physicochemical Properties and Consumer Acceptability of 3D-Printed Gluten-Free Chocolate Cookies Using Survival Analysis by Woonseo Baik, Dongju Lee, Youngseung Lee

“…To mitigate consumer aversion toward edible insects, it is essential to determine the optimal level of insect powder by considering consumer acceptability. …”
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Relationship between weapon size and six key behavioural and physiological traits in males of the European earwig by Blackwell, Samantha E M, Pasquier, Laura, Dupont, Simon, devers, Severine, Lecureuil, Charlotte, Meunier, Joël

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NPF signaling-dependent maintenance of metabolic homeostasis in the pea aphid is mediated by a highly selective ligand-receptor interaction and tissue-specific changes in NPF and N... by Cissy Huygens, Mélanie Ribeiro Lopes, El-Sayed Baz, Jozef Vanden Broeck, Federica Calevro, Patrick Callaerts

“…Neuropeptide F (NPF) and its receptor (NPFR) are important regulators of food intake, physiology and metabolism in insects. Focusing on a major crop pest, the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum, it is shown that the predicted NPFR is a highly selective NPF receptor. …”
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