Professional Disease Management Guide for Ornamental Plants by Philip F. Harmon, S. D. Bledsoe

“…Florida’s warm, humid environment is a gardener’s paradise and a great location for ornamental plant producers to grow numerous plant species—but these conditions also are suitable for the development of a wide variety of plant pathogens and insects that can spread them. Florida is also a major port of entry for the international trade of ornamental plants, which carries the risk of introducing exotic invasive pathogens, so growers are required to follow certain phytosanitory regulations. …”
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Cicada Killer, Giant Ground Hornet, Sphecius hogardii (Latreille) and Sphecius speciosus (Drury) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Lionel A. Stange

“…They are conspicuous insects, since the males are territorial and will butt or grapple with intruders including other males. …”
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Deciphering olfactory receptor binding mechanisms: a structural and dynamic perspective on olfactory receptors by Jingtao Wang, Jingtao Wang, Qidong Zhang, Wu Fan, Qingzhao Shi, Jian Mao, Jianping Xie, Guobi Chai, Guobi Chai, Chenglei Zhang

“…However, with the development of cryo-electron microscopy techniques, it has gradually become possible to decipher the specific structures of olfactory receptors in insects and humans. This has provided new insights into the binding mechanisms between odor molecules and olfactory receptors. …”
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Establishment of the Luoping Biota National Geopark in Yunnan, China by Michael Benton, Shixue Hu, Qiyue Zhang, Tao Xie, Changyong Zhou, Wen Wen, Jinyuan Huang

“…The scientific importance of Luoping is in the fossils, thousands of specimens of marine invertebrates, fishes and reptiles, together with rare elements from land (e.g. insects, plants), representing an important phase in the Mesozoic Marine Revolution, when life was recovering from devastation at the end of the Permian, and 8 million years later, had developed stable ecosystems with a new structure, dominated by predatory fishes and reptiles. …”
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Effects of microbial biocontrol agents on tea plantation microecology and tea plant metabolism: a review by Yixin Xie, Yixin Xie, Chunxia Cao, Daye Huang, Yan Gong, Beibei Wang

“…This review provides insights into the interactions among tea plants, insects, and microorganisms, offering strategies to improve pest and disease management in tea plantations.…”
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Convergent origin and accelerated evolution of vesicle-associated RhoGAP proteins in two unrelated parasitoid wasps by Colinet, Dominique, Cavigliasso, Fanny, Leobold, Matthieu, Pichon, Apolline, Urbach, Serge, Cazes, Dominique, Poullet, Marine, Belghazi, Maya, Volkoff, Anne-Nathalie, Drezen, Jean-Michel, Gatti, Jean-Luc, Poirié, Marylène

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Review and Phylogenetic Evaluation of Associations between Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) and Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Menno Reemer

“…(4) Are Microdontinae associated with other insects? A total number of 109 associations between the groups are evaluated, relating to 43 species of Microdontinae belonging to 14 genera, and to at least 69 species of ants belonging to 24 genera and five subfamilies. …”
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Gust Mitigation of Micro Air Vehicles Using Passive Articulated Wings by Adetunji Oduyela, Nathan Slegers

“…Birds and insects naturally use passive flexing of their wings to augment their stability in uncertain aerodynamic environments. …”
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Genome Survey and SSR Analysis of Camellia nitidissima Chi (Theaceae) by Yu Bai, Lin Ye, Kang Yang, Hui Wang

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Microbial ecology of sandflies—the correlation between nutrition, Phlebotomus papatasi sandfly development and microbiome by Slavica Vaselek, Bulent Alten

“…The microbial content of the pupa gut was severely diminished, with overall survival of two bacterial species in adult insects - Ochrobactrum intermedium (found in 95% of dissected adults) and Bacillus subtilis (16%). …”
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Evolution of wing scales in Diptera documented by fossils by Ewa Krzemińska, Wiesław Krzemiński, Iwona Kania-Kłosok, Jadwiga Stanek-Tarkowska, Kornelia Skibińska, Daubian Santos

“…Abstract Among the insects with wings clad in scales, the butterflies are the best known and those showing greatest variety of scale types. …”
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A Study of the Distributions of Two Endangered Sea Skaters Halobates matsumurai Esaki and Asclepios shiranui (Esaki) (Hemiptera: Gerridae: Halobatinae) with Special Reference to Th... by Terumi Ikawa, Yuichi Nozoe, Natsuko Yamashita, Namiko Nishimura, Satoshi Ohnoki, Kyoko Yusa, Sugihiko Hoshizaki, Masayuki Komaba, Akihiro Kawakubo

“…There exist surprisingly few marine insects, most of which are confined to the intertidal zone. …”
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Cavity nesting ants use more, larger grains of sand for nest entrance modification in repeated emigrations by M. Marczak, A. Gruszka, M. Rolski, S. Mitrus

“…Nest sites are important for social insects, as the nests provide refuge against enemies and ensure optimal conditions for brood development. …”
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Activity of the mammalian DNA transposon piggyBat from Myotis lucifugus is restricted by its own transposon ends by Alison B. Hickman, Laurie Lannes, Christopher M. Furman, Christina Hong, Lidiya Franklin, Rodolfo Ghirlando, Arpita Ghosh, Wentian Luo, Parthena Konstantinidou, Hernán A. Lorenzi, Anne Grove, Astrid D. Haase, Matthew H. Wilson, Fred Dyda

“…Abstract Members of the piggyBac superfamily of DNA transposons are widely distributed in host genomes ranging from insects to mammals. The human genome has retained five piggyBac-derived genes as domesticated elements although they are no longer mobile. …”
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The complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic implications of Paradoxopsyllus custodis and Stenischia montanis yunlongensis by Bin Chen, Mingna Duan, Shuang Liu, Yafang Liu, Shaobo Tang, Dandan Jiang, Wei Gu, Quanfu Zhang, Xing Yang

“…Abstract Fleas, which are ubiquitous small wingless parasitic insects, have a significant impact on human and animal health globally. …”
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Diversity and Composition of Hymenoptera Around Tidal Swamp Rice In Indragiri Hilir District, Indonesia by Zahlul Ikhsan, Aulia Oktavia

“…Hymenoptera found around tidal swamp rice areas of Indragiri Hilir Regency were 15.253 Hymenoptera insects consisting of 11 superfamilies, 37 families, and 304 morphospecies. …”
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Effects of a Supraseasonal Drought on the Ecological Attributes of Plagioscion squamosissimus (Heckel, 1840) (Pisces, Sciaenidae) in a Brazilian Reservoir by Antonia E. F. Souza, Jônnata F. Oliveira, Danielle Peretti, Rodrigo Fernandes, Rodrigo S. Costa, José Luis Costa Novaes

“…The diet of the fish comprised shrimp, gastropods, fish, insects, shrimp larvae, and vegetable matter, with shrimp being the major component. …”
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The first record and occurrence of microsporidian pathogen, Chytridiopsis cf. typographi (Microspora) in Pityokteines curvidens (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) populations in Türkiye by Tuğba Sağlam, Mustafa Yaman

“…Entomopathogens can play a suppressive role on natural populations of pest insects. In the present study, the occurrence of Chytridiopsis typographi, the microsporidian pathogen of P. curvidens is presented for the Bolu region during four years. …”
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Versatility of Chitosan-Based Biomaterials and Their Use as Scaffolds for Tissue Regeneration by José Carlos Viana Ribeiro, Rodrigo Silveira Vieira, Iracema Matos Melo, Vilana Maria Adriano Araújo, Vilma Lima

“…Chitosan is a naturally occurring polysaccharide obtained from chitin, present in abundance in the exoskeletons of crustaceans and insects. It has aroused great interest as a biomaterial for tissue engineering on account of its biocompatibility and biodegradation and its affinity for biomolecules. …”
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A Swarm Robotic Exploration Strategy Based on an Improved Random Walk Method by Bao Pang, Yong Song, Chengjin Zhang, Hongling Wang, Runtao Yang

“…The random walk methods that are used most commonly are Brownian motion and Lévy flight, both of which mimic the self-organized behavior of social insects. However, both methods are somewhat limited when applied to swarm robotics, where having the robots search repeatedly can result in highly inefficient searching. …”
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