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Pests

Food and feed safety of a novel Vip3C insecticidal protein derived from Paenibacillus spp. for protection of crop plants against key Lepidopteran pests

Lucas J. McKinnon, Rong Wang, Cunxi Wang, Scott Saracco, Colton Kessenich, Virginia M. Johnson, Jennifer Calcaterra, Gregory Frierdich, Eric Bretsnyder, Luting Fang, Bingyao Li, Tianbo Xu

published 18 Mar 2026

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Efficient service mesh traffic management for cloud-native applications

Rizwan Ahmed, Shuyang Ren, Eunsam Kim, Choonhwa Lee

published 12 Mar 2026

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Influence of biosilica treatments and storage receptacles on the quality of maize (Zea mays L.) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) seeds during long-term storage

Bertrand Zing Zing, Charles Rostand Mvongo Mvodo, Valteri Audrey Voula, Lin Marcellin Messi Ambassa, Eugene Ejolle Ehabe, Placide Desiré Belibi Belibi, Charles Melea Kede

published 11 Mar 2026

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Background optic flow modulates responses of multiple descending interneurons to object motion in locusts

Sinan Zhang, John R. Gray

published 29 Dec 2025

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Influence of rice variety and grain form on the development and infestation of Sitophilus oryzae (L.): A comparative analysis

Geteneh Mitku Chekol

published 16 Dec 2025

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Dominance of Zygosaccharomyces and shifts in bacterial pathways: Effects of antimicrobials on composition and diversity of the Ceratitis capitata bacterial and fungal microbiome

Maria Cecilia Rasuk, Alfonsina Palladini, Andrea Moyano, Viviana Díaz, Antonella Giudice, Gisela Castillo, Solana Abraham, Juan Rull, Anja Poehlein, Rolf Daniel, Julian Rafael Dib

published 12 Nov 2025

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Gum Arabic containing Allium sativum L. essential oil-based nanoparticles as biofumigant grain protectant against Callosobruchus maculatus F.

Huda H. Elbehery, Habiba A. Ahmed, Samar Sayed Ibrahim, Waleed Abouamer, Amr Farouk

published 24 Oct 2025

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Maize-bean intercropping mediates reduction in arthropod intraguild predation better than low-intensity farming—Stable isotope evidence

Nickson Erick Otieno, James Stephen Pryke, Jonathan Mukasi

published 19 Aug 2025

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Optimizing irradiation dose for Drosophila melanogaster males to enhance heterospecific Sterile Insect Technique (h-SIT) against Drosophila suzukii

Flavia Cerasti, Valentina Mastrantonio, Alessia Cemmi, Ilaria Di Sarcina, Massimo Cristofaro, Daniele Porretta

published 03 Jul 2025

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Insecticidal potential of five medicinal plants: An In Vitro evaluation and molecular docking analysis of Artemisia absinthium

Mohd Yaseen, Mudasir Gani, Shabir Ahmad Ganai, Baseerat ul Ann, Fehim Jeelani Wani, Mohd Ayoub Mantoo, Khalid Rasool, Rashid Mumtaz Khan

published 01 Jul 2025

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CATransU-Net: Cross-attention TransU-Net for field rice pest detection

Xuwei Lu, Yunlong Zhang, Congqi Zhang

published 25 Jun 2025

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Strain variation in feeding response of house flies, Musca domestica, to denatonium benzoate, a bittering agent used in commercial fly baits

Panchalie B. Gunathunga, B. H. King, Edwin R. Burgess I.V.

published 23 Jun 2025

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Biological control under climate change: Distribution patterns of the South American fruit fly, Anastrepha fraterculus and two of its parasitoids in the Americas

Jesús H. Gómez-Llano, Fábio L. Galvão-Silva, Flor E. Acevedo, Fabio Castro-Llanos, Marco Silva Gottschalk, Dori Edson Nava

published 11 Jun 2025

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