International Journal of Insects

International Journal of Insects [E-ISSN: 3049-1649]is a peer-reviewed Online journal launched in 2024 that focuses on the study of insects and related arthropods. The journal aims to publish high-quality research articles, reviews, and communications on all aspects of insect biology, ecology, behavior, physiology, genetics, evolution, and systematics.

• Insect Diversity, Taxonomy, and Systematics: Research on insect identification, classification, nomenclature, morphology, systematics, phylogenetics, species delimitation, biogeography, biodiversity inventories, museum collections, and the discovery and description of insect taxa.
• Insect Ecology and Ecosystem Interactions: Studies on insect populations and communities, habitat associations, competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism, herbivory, pollination, food webs, ecosystem services, and interactions between insects and terrestrial or aquatic environments.
• Insect Behavior and Chemical Ecology: Research on mating, courtship, sexual selection, foraging, host selection, communication, pheromones, territoriality, social organization, parental care, cooperation, aggression, learning, and chemical mechanisms influencing insect behavior.
• Insect Physiology and Development: Studies on growth, molting, metamorphosis, endocrinology, reproduction, embryonic and larval development, diapause, circadian rhythms, metabolism, sensory physiology, aging, and physiological responses to environmental conditions.
• Insect Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular Biology: Research on insect genomes, gene expression, genetic variation, population genetics, transcriptomics, molecular evolution, RNA interference, genome editing, cellular signaling, neurogenetics, immunogenetics, and molecular mechanisms underlying insect traits.
• Insect Evolution and Phylogeny: Studies on insect origins, diversification, speciation, natural selection, adaptive radiation, coevolution, evolutionary developmental biology, fossil insects, comparative morphology, phylogenomics, and evolutionary relationships among insect groups.
• Agricultural and Forest Entomology: Research on insect pests affecting crops, forests, stored products, horticultural systems, and plantations, including pest biology, crop–insect interactions, economic damage, monitoring, forecasting, and environmentally responsible management strategies.
• Integrated Pest Management and Biological Control: Studies on biological control agents, parasitoids, predators, entomopathogens, host-plant resistance, cultural and behavioral control, pheromone-based management, sterile insect techniques, insecticide resistance, pest risk analysis, and integrated pest management.
• Insecticide Toxicology and Resistance: Research on insecticide modes of action, toxicity, resistance mechanisms, resistance monitoring, pesticide metabolism, behavioral resistance, cross-resistance, resistance management, and development of safer or more selective pest-control approaches.
• Medical and Veterinary Entomology: Studies on mosquitoes, flies, fleas, lice, ticks and other arthropod vectors of human and animal disease, including vector biology, ecology, behavior, pathogen transmission, surveillance, prevention, and control.
• Vector-Borne Diseases and Public Health Entomology: Research on malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Zika, filariasis, leishmaniasis and other vector-associated diseases, including vector competence, epidemiology, insecticide-treated interventions, biological control, genetically modified vectors, and disease-surveillance strategies.
• Pollination Biology and Beneficial Insects: Studies on bees, butterflies, moths, beetles and other beneficial insects involved in pollination, biological control, decomposition, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem functioning, including their ecological and agricultural importance.
• Social Insects and Eusociality: Research on ants, bees, termites, wasps and other social insects, including caste systems, division of labor, communication, colony organization, kin selection, reproductive strategies, collective behavior, and evolution of sociality.
• Insect Conservation and Biodiversity Management: Studies on threatened insects, habitat loss, fragmentation, restoration, protected areas, population monitoring, conservation genetics, migration, habitat connectivity, citizen science, and strategies for maintaining insect diversity and ecosystem functions.
• Invasive Insects, Quarantine, and Biosecurity: Research on invasive insect species, pathways of introduction, establishment and spread, ecological and economic impacts, pest risk assessment, quarantine systems, surveillance, early detection, eradication, and biosecurity management.
• Insect–Plant Interactions: Studies on herbivory, pollination, host-plant selection, plant defenses, insect adaptation, gall formation, seed predation, coevolution, plant-mediated interactions, and molecular or chemical mechanisms governing relationships between insects and plants.
• Insect Microbiomes and Host–Microbe Interactions: Research on insect-associated bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microorganisms, including symbiosis, gut microbiomes, nutrition, immunity, pathogen interactions, reproductive manipulation, disease resistance, and applications in pest or vector management.
• Climate Change and Insect Biology: Studies on the effects of temperature, precipitation, extreme events, habitat shifts, seasonal change and other climate-related factors on insect distribution, phenology, population dynamics, migration, pest outbreaks, vector ecology, and biodiversity.
• Applied and Industrial Entomology: Research on insects of economic importance, including apiculture, sericulture, lac culture, edible insects, insect-derived products, mass rearing, insect farming, biological resources, and sustainable applications of insects in agriculture and industry.
• Emerging Technologies in Entomology: Studies using artificial intelligence, remote sensing, automated insect identification, biosensors, molecular diagnostics, genomics, environmental DNA, geographic information systems, computational modelling, and other emerging tools for insect research and management.