📢We are thrilled to share the 2025 JCR results from Clarivate, released June 17: ✅ Impact Factor: 3.7 ✅ Ranking: 10/110 in the Entomology category ✅ Q1: top 10% of entomology titles globally #InsectScience #Entomology #JCR2025 #ImpactFactor #AcademicPublishing

🎊#InsectScience 2026, Issue 5 is out now! 📢Cover Story: The spongy moth (Lymantria dispar), a highly fecund forest pest, rests on tree trunks and exhibits strong reproductive ability with massive egg production. 🔗onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/… @WileyEcology

Dual-action MINPP1 effectors enable Riptortus pedestris to overcome phytic acid antinutritional defense and suppress pattern-triggered immunity doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #PlantImmunity #InsectPest #Effector #Soybean #MolecularPlantPathology

Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) signaling regulates fluid excretion and uric acid metabolism in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #OpenAccess #Mosquito #Anopheles #VectorBiology #Malaria #Prostaglandin

Review Article： Lepidopteran pests and phytopathogenic fungi: The overlooked interface of insect–microbe interactions 🌟Wen-Xue Zhang, Hao-Ran Li, Xue Guo, Wei Zhang doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #InsectMicrobe #Lepidoptera #PlantPathology #Microbiome #CropProtection

Temporal overlap and efficient termite exploitation characterize the interaction between an earwig predator and a subterranean termite doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #PredatorPrey #Termites #Earwig #Ecology #PestControl

Artificial feeding-based oral secretion collection system and multi-omics analysis reveal insecticidal saliva and salivary proteome in Orius nagaii doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #PredatoryBug #Proteomics #Biocontrol #Saliva #MultiOmics

Engineering silkworm–spider composite silk via the fibroin light chain fusion system in Bombyx mori doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #Biomaterials #SpiderSilk #BombyxMori #SyntheticBiology #Silk

Egg volatiles of oak silkworm mediate defense against parasitoid wasps doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #PlantDefense #ChemicalEcology #Parasitoid #Volatiles #Silkworm

Lipid raft protein Flotillin 2 facilitates alphavirus infection through promoting viral release doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #Virology #Alphavirus #Flotillin #Arbovirus #VectorBorne

A horizontally transferred bacterial gene for pantothenic acid biosynthesis regulates diapause and reproduction in the spider mite Amphitetranychus viennensis doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #OpenAccess #HorizontalGeneTransfer #SpiderMite #Diapause #Evolution #Acarology

Review Article Sex pheromone communication and its regulation by the sex determination pathway in cockroaches Correspondence: Sheng Li, Nan Chen doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #Pheromone #Cockroach #ChemicalEcology #SexDetermination #Entomology

Untangling parasitoid competition: A three-dimensional framework for parasitoid interactions in biological control doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #BiologicalControl #Parasitoid #IPM #Ecology #Entomology

Molecular phylogenetics provides insights into biogeography and character evolution in the assassin bug tribe Saicini (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #Phylogenetics #AssassinBug #Evolution #Biogeography #Entomology

A CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing platform for the rice leaffolder, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #CRISPR #GeneEditing #RicePest #Entomology #AgTech

Functional differentiation of ground-dwelling beetle communities as an adaptation to fragile alluvial fan habitats in arid regions doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #Entomology #Beetles #DesertEcology #Biodiversity #AridLand

Sensory-evoked locomotion selectively enhances transient and sustained food odor representations in a mushroom body dopaminergic circuit in Drosophila doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #DopaminergicCircuit #Drosophila #MushroomBody #Neuromodulation

Aphid and endosymbiont sensitivity to heatwaves is misaligned across life stages Correspondence: Evatt Chirgwin @EvattChirgwin & Ary A. Hoffmann doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #OpenAcces #ClimateWarming #EvolutionaryConstraints #EndosymbiontTiter #LifeHistory

🔖The role of specialized metabolites in plant‒insect interactions: A review 🌟Xiaoli Liu & Jiancai Li 🔗doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #DefenseGenes #InsectDetoxification #PlantImmunity #PlantInsectInteractions #Metabolites

📢Natural TMEM145 GPCR inhibitors enhancing clothianidin susceptibility in Nilaparvata lugens 🎈Guijian Zhang,  Xiangqian Chang,  Shun He,  Liang Lv,  Hu Wan doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #InsecticideResistance #GPCR #NilaparvataLugens #RNAi #PestManagement

A horizontally acquired pantothenate gene drives vitellogenin's benefit to whitefly symbiosis persistence doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70… #Whitefly #Symbiosis #HorizontalGeneTransfer #Vitellogenin #Pantothenate