1. 338 coleopteran genomes reveal exceptional rearrangement variation compared to other insect orders
   2026/07/22 by Arif Maulana, Aleksandra Bliznina, Sam Ebdon +11 · 1 voice
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Ancestor #Centromere #Chromosomal and Genetic Variations #Chromosomal rearrangement #Chromosome #Genome #Genome Rearrangement Algorithms #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Insect #Karyotype #Variation (astronomy)
2. Constructing a lower-bound estimate of the global number of insect species on a hyperdiverse empirical foundation
   2026/06/29 by Robert K. Colwell, Laura Melissa Guzman, Dirk Steinke +13 · 7 voices
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biodiversity #Entomology #Global biodiversity #Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny #Insect #Insect-Plant Interactions and Control #Malaise #Rainforest #Species Distribution and Climate Change #Species richness #Taxon
3. Conservation of sensory pathways implies a localized change in the mushroom bodies is associated with cognitive evolution in Heliconius butterflies
   2026/01/17 by E.S. Hodge, Denise Dalbosco Dell’Aglio, Antoine Couto +3 · 2 voices · 1 citation
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · #Context (archaeology) #Foraging #Heliconius #Insect #Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy #Mushroom bodies #Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research #Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies #Sensory cue #Sensory system
4. A north-south hemispheric migratory divide in the butterfly Vanessa cardui
   2025/12/30 by Aurora García-Berro, Daria Shipilina, Niclas Backström +7 · 2 voices · 2 citations
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Butterfly #Chromosomal inversion #Genetic diversity and population structure #Hybrid zone #Insect #Inversion (geology) #Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research #Southern Hemisphere
5. Divergent Trends in Insect Disturbance Across Europe's Temperate and Boreal Forests
   2025/10/29 by Tomáš Hlásny, Roman Modlinger, Jostein Gohli +36 · 2 voices · 1 citation
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Boreal #Disturbance (geology) #Entomological Studies and Ecology #Forest Insect Ecology and Management #Guild #Herbivore #Host (biology) #Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny #Insect #Taiga #Temperate climate #Temperate forest
6. Predictions of Future Insect Distributions Under Climate Change
   2025/10/01 by Olivia K. Bates, Cléo Bertelsmeier · 1 voice · 2 citations
   Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Benchmarking #Climate change #Climate model #Environmental niche modelling #Forest Insect Ecology and Management #Insect #Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy #Range (aeronautics) #Species Distribution and Climate Change #Species distribution #Variety (cybernetics)
7. Big data, changing taxonomy, and ghost records: permanent preservation of collected specimens is essential for insect monitoring
   2025/07/01 by Zachary M. Portman, Bethanne Bruninga‐Socolar, Marissa H. Chase +4 · 1 voice · 4 citations
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · Psychology · #Animal and Plant Science Education #Biology #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Insect #Plant and animal studies #Species Distribution and Climate Change #Taxonomy (biology) #Zoology
8. Post K-Pg rise in ant and termite prevalence underlies convergent dietary specialization in mammals
   2025/06/02 by Thomas P. Vida, Zachary T. Calamari, Phillip Barden · 1 voice · 3 citations
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Biology #Convergent evolution #Cretaceous #Ecology #Eusociality #Generalist and specialist species #Habitat #Hymenoptera #Insect #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Insectivore #Mammal #Obligate #Paleontology #Phylogenetic tree #Plant and animal studies #Predation #Zoology
9. On analogies in vertebrate and insect visual systems
   2025/05/23 by Ryosuke Tanaka, Ruben Portugues, Rubén Portugues · 1 voice · 3 citations
   Neuroscience · Psychology · #Biology #Cognitive science #Communication #Computer science #Ecology #Insect #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Neural dynamics and brain function #Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research #Psychology #Vertebrate
10. Hawaiian caterpillar patrols spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts
    2025/04/24 by Daniel Rubinoff, Michael San Jose, Camiel Doorenweerd · 1 voice · 4 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biology #Caterpillar #Ecology #Geography #Herbivore #Insect #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Larva #Lepidoptera genitalia #Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy #Lineage (genetic) #Plant and animal studies #Predation #Range (aeronautics) #Spider #Zoology
11. Species‐specific plant‐mediated effects between herbivores converge at high damage intensity
    2022/01/24 by Jinlong Wan, Jiahui Yi, Zhibin Tao +7 · 2 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Biological Control of Invasive Species #Biology #Botany #Curculionidae #Ecology #Flea #Flea beetle #Herbivore #Insect #Insect-Plant Interactions and Control #Larva #Leaf beetle #Plant and animal studies #Tannin #Weevil
12. Exceptionally preserved beetles in a Triassic coprolite of putative dinosauriform origin
    2021/06/30 by Martin Qvarnström, Martin Fikáček, Joel Vikberg Wernström +5 · 2 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution #Fossil Insects in Amber #Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography #Biology #Fossil Record #Insect #Paleontology #Paleoecology #Insectivore #Extinction event #Cretaceous #Phylogenetic tree #Zoology #Evolutionary biology #Biological dispersal #Predation
13. Production, composition, and mode of action of the painful defensive venom produced by a limacodid caterpillar, Doratifera vulnerans
    2021/04/23 by Andrew A. Walker, Samuel D. Robinson, Jean‐Paul Paluzzi +15 · 13 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biochemistry #Biology #Ecology #Entomological Studies and Ecology #Envenomation #Insect #Insect and Pesticide Research #Mode of action #Peptide #Scorpion Venoms #Venom #Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
14. Tribolium beetles as a model system in evolution and ecology
    2021/03/25 by Michael D. Pointer, Matthew J. G. Gage, Lewis G. Spurgin · 30 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Adaptation (eye) #Behavioral ecology #Biology #Demography #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Evolutionary ecology #Insect #Insect Pest Control Strategies #Insect Resistance and Genetics #Insect-Plant Interactions and Control #Life history #Life history theory #Population #Population ecology #Population genetics #Selection (genetic algorithm) #Sociology
15. Wireless steerable vision for live insects and insect-scale robots
    2020/07/15 by Vikram Iyer, Ali Najafi, Johannes James +2 · 1 citation
    Engineering · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence #Robot #Insect #Computer vision #Artificial intelligence #Wireless #Scale (ratio) #Computer science #Biology #Geography #Ecology #Cartography #Telecommunications
16. Distributed physiology and the molecular basis of social life in eusocial insects
    2020/04/22 by D.A. Friedman, Daniel Friedman, B.R. Johnson +3 · 8 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biology #Convergent evolution #Ecology #Eusociality #Evolutionary biology #Functional genomics #Gene #Genetics #Genome #Genomics #Hymenoptera #Insect #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Insect and Pesticide Research #Multicellular organism #Organism #Phylogenetics #Plant and animal studies #Social evolution
17. Central pattern generating networks in insect locomotion
    2020/01/01 by Charalampos Mantziaris, Till Bockemühl, Ansgar Büschges · 2 citations
    Neuroscience · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies #Crawling #Central pattern generator #Rhythm #Biology #Neuroscience #Insect #Movement (music) #Sensory system #Property (philosophy) #Computer science #Ecology #Anatomy
18. The Evolution of Insect Metamorphosis
    2019/12/01 by James W. Truman · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Biology #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Fossil Insects in Amber #Insect #Insect behavior and control techniques #Larva #Metamorphosis #Plant and animal studies #Zoology
19. Neonicotinoids: molecular mechanisms of action, insights into resistance and impact on pollinators
    2018/09/27 by Makoto Ihara, Kazuhiko Matsuda · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Biology #Biotechnology #Ecology #Imidacloprid #Insect #Insect and Pesticide Research #Insect-Plant Interactions and Control #Mechanism (biology) #Neonicotinoid #Pesticide #Plant and animal studies #Pollination #Pollinator #Toxicology
20. Beetle Pollination of Cycads in the Mesozoic
    2018/08/16 by Chenyang Cai, Hermes E. Escalona, Liqin Li +4 · 4 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Anemophily #Biology #Botany #Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean #Cretaceous #Cycad #Gymnosperm #Insect #Mesozoic #Paleontology #Plant Diversity and Evolution #Plant and animal studies #Pollen #Pollination #Pollinator #Taxon
21. The many roles of fats in overwintering insects
    2018/03/07 by Brent J. Sinclair, Katie E. Marshall · 29 citations
    Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Neuroscience · #Biology #Cryoprotectant #Diapause #Ecology #Fishery #Insect #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Larva #Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research #Overwintering #Physiological and biochemical adaptations #Zoology
22. Non-glandular trichomes ofSolanum carolinensedeter feeding byManduca sextacaterpillars and cause damage to the gut peritrophic matrix
    2017/02/22 by Rupesh Kariyat, Rupesh R. Kariyat, Jason D. Smith +4 · 30 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Chemistry · #Biology #Botany #Chemistry #Hindgut #Insect #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Larva #Manduca #Manduca sexta #Matrix (chemical analysis) #Midgut #Plant Reproductive Biology #Plant and animal studies #Sphingidae #Trichome
23. An Efficient Antioxidant System in a Long-Lived Termite Queen
    2017/01/11 by Eisuke Tasaki, Kazuya Kobayashi, Kenji Matsuura +1 · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · #Antioxidant #Biochemistry #Biology #Botany #Catalase #DNA #DNA damage #Eusociality #Fecundity #Gene #Genetics #Hymenoptera #Insect #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Insect and Pesticide Research #Longevity #Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research #Oxidative stress #Zoology
24. Fossil record of stem groups employed in evaluating the chronogram of insects (Arthropoda: Hexapoda)
    2016/12/13 by Yanhui Wang, Michael S. Engel, José Albertíno Rafael +6 · 2 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Arthropod #Biodiversity #Biology #Carboniferous #Devonian #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Fossil Insects in Amber #Insect #Late Devonian extinction #Origination #Paleontology #Phylogenetic tree #Phylogenetics #Plant Diversity and Evolution #Plant and animal studies
25. Behavioral Sabotage of Plant Defenses by Insect Folivores
    2016/09/20 by David E. Dussourd · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biology #Ecology #Forest Insect Ecology and Management #Gene #Herbivore #Insect #Insect-Plant Interactions and Control #Plant and animal studies #Plant defense against herbivory #Zoology
26. A Comparative Analysis of Sonic Defences in Bombycoidea Caterpillars
    2016/08/11 by Veronica L. Bura, Akito Y. Kawahara, Jayne E. Yack · 1 citation
    Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Psychology · #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy #Plant and animal studies #Mimicry #Aposematism #Predation #Sound (geography) #Biology #Zoology #Insect #Animal behavior #Communication #Ecology #Predator #Acoustics #Psychology
27. The Venus Flytrap Dionaea muscipula Counts Prey-Induced Action Potentials to Induce Sodium Uptake
    2016/01/21 by Jennifer Böhm, Sönke Scherzer, Elżbieta Król +12 · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Chemistry · #Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies #Plant Molecular Biology Research #Plant Parasitism and Resistance #Biology #Stimulus (psychology) #Insect #Sodium #Predation #Cell biology #Jasmonic acid #Sodium channel #Biophysics #Zoology #Biochemistry #Botany #Chemistry #Ecology #Gene
28. Large-scale pollination experiment demonstrates the importance of insect pollination in winter oilseed rape
    2015/12/09 by Sandra Lindström, Sandra A. M. Lindström, Lina Herbertsson +3 · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Agronomy #Apiary #Biology #Botany #Brassica #Crop #Cultivar #Honey bee #Insect #Insect and Pesticide Research #Insect-Plant Interactions and Control #Open pollination #Plant and animal studies #Pollen #Pollination #Pollination management #Pollinator
29. The Role of Mites in Insect-Fungus Associations
    2013/11/04 by Richard W. Hofstetter, John C. Moser · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences #Forest Insect Ecology and Management #Nematode management and characterization studies #Biology #Ecology #Biological dispersal #Habitat #Fungus #Insect #Botany
30. Functional Morphology of the Crop and Proventriculus of Sitophilus zeamais (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
    2013/11/01 by Géssica de Sousa, Géssica De Sousa, Elton Luiz Scudeler +3 · 4 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Agronomy #Anatomy #Biology #Botany #Crop #Curculionidae #Foregut #Insect #Insect Pest Control Strategies #Insect Resistance and Genetics #Insect Utilization and Effects #PEST analysis #Proventriculus #Sitophilus

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