Recent Publications

Habitat selection by a predator of rodent pests is resilient to wildfire in a vineyard agroecosystem

| Ecology and Evolution
Author(s): Allison E. Huysman, Matthew D. Johnson


Paved Paradise: Belowground Parking Structures Sustain Urban Mosquito Populations in Washington, DC.

| Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
Author(s): Arsenault-Benoit A, Greene A, Fritz ML


The global spread and invasion capacities of alien ants


Author(s): Mark K. L. Wong, Evan P. Economo, Benoit Guénard


The fushi tarazu zebra element is not required for Drosophila viability or fertility

| G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics
Author(s): Patricia L Graham, Matthew D Fischer, Abhigya Giri, Leslie Pick


Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae): A Decade of Research Towards a Sustainable Integrated Pest Management Program

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): Gabriella Tait, Serhan Mermer, Dara Stockton, Jana Lee, Sabina Avosani, Antoine Abrieux, Gianfranco Anfora, Elizabeth Beers, Antonio Biondi, Hannah Burrack, et. al


Climate change and elevational range shifts in insects

| Current Opinion in Insect Science
Author(s): Christy M McCain, Chloe F Garfinkel


Successful management of invasive rats across a fragmented landscape

| Environmental Conservation
Author(s): Sarah K Barney, Devin R Leopold, Kainana Francisco, David J Flaspohler, Tadashi Fukami, Christian P Giardina, Daniel S Gruner, Jessie L Knowlton, William C Pitt, Erin E Wilson Rankin


Insects and their pathogens in a changing climate

| Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
Author(s): Raymond J. St. Leger


Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in pollinator communities maintains within‐species floral odour variation

| Oikos
Author(s): Mark A. Szenteczki, Adrienne L. Godschalx, Andrea Galmán, Anahí Espíndola, Marc Gibernau, Nadir Alvarez, Sergio Rasmann


Neonicotinoids can cause arrested pupal ecdysis in Lepidoptera

| Scientific Reports
Author(s): Niranjana Krishnan, Russell A. Jurenka, Steven P. Bradbury


Neonicotinoids can cause arrested pupal ecdysis

| Scientific Reports


Climate and land‐use interactively shape butterfly diversity in tropical rainforest and savanna ecosystems of southwestern China

| Insect Science
Author(s): Bai‐Ge Miao, Yan‐Qiong Peng, Da‐Rong Yang, Yasuhiro Kubota, Evan P. Economo, Cong Liu


High-throughput detection of eukaryotic parasites and arboviruses in mosquitoes.

| Biology open
Author(s): Cannon MV, Bogale HN, Bhalerao D, Keita K, Camara D, Barry Y, Keita M, Coulibaly D, Kone AK, Doumbo OK, et. al


Patterns of morphological simplification and innovation in the megadiverse Holometabola (Insecta)

| Cladistics
Author(s): Rolf Georg Beutel, Frank Friedrich, Evan P. Economo


Spatial turnover of multiple ecosystem functions is more associated with plant than soil microbial β‐diversity

| Ecosphere
Author(s): Xin Jing, Case M. Prager, Elizabeth T. Borer, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Daniel S. Gruner, Jin‐Sheng He, Kevin Kirkman, Andrew S. MacDougall, Rebecca L. McCulley, Suzanne M. Prober, et. al


Evaluating toxicity of Varroa mite (Varroa destructor)-active dsRNA to monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) larvae

| PLOS ONE
Author(s): Niranjana Krishnan, Guy Smagghe, Maura J. Hall, Richard L. Hellmich, Joel R. Coats, Steven P. Bradbury


Alien ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Mexico: the first database of records

| Biological Invasions
Author(s): Madai Rosas-Mejía, Benoit Guénard, Mario Josué Aguilar-Méndez, Adrian Ghilardi, Miguel Vásquez-Bolaños, Evan P. Economo, Milan Janda


Urbanization as a disrupter and facilitator of insect herbivore behaviors and life cycles

| Current Opinion in Insect Science
Author(s): Lauren Schmitt, Karin T Burghardt


Mandibular morphology, task specialization and bite mechanics in Pheidole ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

| Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Author(s): Cristian L. Klunk, Marco A. Argenta, Alexandre Casadei-Ferreira, Evan P. Economo, Marcio R. Pie


Head and mandible shapes are highly integrated yet represent two distinct modules within and among worker subcastes of the ant genus Pheidole

| Ecology and Evolution
Author(s): Alexandre Casadei‐Ferreira, Nicholas R. Friedman, Evan P. Economo, Marcio R. Pie, Rodrigo M. Feitosa


Effects of Using High Resolution Satellite‐Based Inundation Time Series to Estimate Methane Fluxes From Forested Wetlands

| Geophysical Research Letters
Author(s): Kelly L. Hondula, Ben DeVries, C. Nathan Jones, Margaret A. Palmer


Functional innovation promotes diversification of form in the evolution of an ultrafast trap-jaw mechanism in ants

| PLOS Biology
Author(s): Douglas B. Booher, Joshua C. Gibson, Cong Liu, John T. Longino, Brian L. Fisher, Milan Janda, Nitish Narula, Evropi Toulkeridou, Alexander S. Mikheyev, Andrew V. Suarez, et. al