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Forensic Entomology and Space
The dynamics of forensic insects can operate at many spatial scales, manifest in different spatial patterns, and be attributed to multiple different causes. This highlights the importance for forensic entomology to consider spatial effects despite its neglect to date. Forensic entomology has much to benefit from the use of spatial statistics because many important questions, both at the fundamental and practical levels, require a spatial solution.
  • 550
  • 25 Jan 2022
Topic Review
Organic Insect Pest Management
The Federal National Organic Program (NOP) guidelines for insect pest management can be viewed as constraining to certified organic growers due to the disallowance of certain tactics such as synthetic insecticides and transgenically derived pest resistant crops. The types of insect pest management tactics that are promoted by the NOP require in-depth entomological knowledge for successful management such as pheromone disruption, augmentation and conservation biological control. There are significant gaps in the Federal NOP guideline recommendations, such as insect identification and population monitoring, that if included could aid in grower adoption of practices that inform better decision making and efficacy. This review promotes the idea that these issues can be overcome by utilizing experiential learning programs to educate growers and paid professionals like those who are a part of the California system of state licensed Pest Control Advisors (PCA) and having those paid advisors provide much needed individualized, hands-on grower guidance. If the PCA or paid professional is regarded as a valued partner in the educational and extension process of addressing pest management issues, they can be an effective advocate, educator, mentor and assessor for the growers; ultimately reaching more growers to ensure effective adoption and use of a variety of management tactics. This model has the capacity to achieve the NOP's philosophical goal of a production system managed to respond to site-specific conditions by integrating cultural, biological and mechanical practices for effective pest management.
  • 548
  • 22 Feb 2021
Topic Review
Integrated Insect Pest Management for Rice
Integrated pest management (IPM) is a promising technology for the environment. Insect pests and weeds have long posed a danger to rice production systems, resulting in severe output losses. Although insect, pest, and weed control has remained the most efficient plant protection tool, environmental risks have prompted scientists to propose alternate pest management options. The understanding of sustainable conventional agriculture prompted the broad deployment of IPM.
  • 541
  • 30 Mar 2023
Topic Review
Myzus persicae Sulzer
The green peach aphid (Myzus persicae Sulzer), a major and harmful chili aphid usually managed using chemical pesticides, is responsible for massive annual agricultural losses. The efficacy of two protein elicitors, PeaT1 and PeBC1, to stimulate a defensive response against M. persicae in chili was studied in this study.
  • 534
  • 11 Nov 2021
Topic Review
Deforestation, Urbanization, and Mosquito and Tick-Borne Diseases
Central America is a unique geographical region that connects North and South America, enclosed by the Caribbean Sea to the East, and the Pacific Ocean to the West. This region, encompassing Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, and Nicaragua, is highly vulnerable to the emergence or resurgence of mosquito-borne and tick-borne diseases due to a combination of key ecological and socioeconomic determinants acting together, often in a synergistic fashion. Of particular interest are the effects of land use changes, such as deforestation-driven urbanization and forest degradation, on the incidence and prevalence of these diseases, which are not well understood. In recent years, parts of Central America have experienced social and economic improvements; however, the region still faces major challenges in developing effective strategies and significant investments in public health infrastructure to prevent and control these diseases.
  • 532
  • 29 Dec 2021
Topic Review
Beavers, Bugs and Chemistry
The North American beaver (Castor canadensis Kuhl) and cottonwoods (Populus spp.) are foundation species, the interactions of which define a much larger community and affect a threatened riparian habitat type.
  • 524
  • 04 Mar 2022
Topic Review
Mosquito Oviposition Sites
A summary of repellent/deterrent microorganisms involved in mosquito oviposition site selection is detailed in.
  • 523
  • 06 Aug 2021
Topic Review
Applications of BNF and NWR Strategies in Insects
Nitrogen is usually a restrictive nutrient that affects the growth and development of insects, especially of those living in low nitrogen nutrient niches. In response to the low nitrogen stress, insects have gradually developed symbiont-based stress response strategies—biological nitrogen fixation and nitrogenous waste recycling—to optimize dietary nitrogen intake. Based on the above two patterns, atmospheric nitrogen or nitrogenous waste (e.g., uric acid, urea) is converted into ammonia, which in turn is incorporated into the organism via the glutamine synthetase and glutamate synthase pathways.
  • 500
  • 21 Jan 2022
Topic Review
Reference Genes for Transcriptional Profiling in Cockroaches
The German cockroach, Blattella germanica, and the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana are the most common and synanthropic household pests of interest to public health. While they have increasingly served as model systems in hemimetabolous insects for studying many biological issues, there is still a lack of stable reference gene evaluation for reliable quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) outputs and functional genomics.
  • 463
  • 02 Dec 2021
Topic Review
Bee Innate Immunity
As important pollinators, bees play a critical role in maintaining the balance of the ecosystem and improving the yield and quality of crops. However, in recent years, the bee population has significantly declined due to various pathogens and environmental stressors including viruses, bacteria, parasites, and increased pesticide application. The above threats trigger or suppress the innate immunity of bees, their only immune defense system, which is essential to maintaining individual health and that of the colony. In addition, bees can be divided into solitary and eusocial bees based on their life traits, and eusocial bees possess special social immunities, such as grooming behavior, which cooperate with innate immunity to maintain the health of the colony.
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  • 29 Nov 2022
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