Belowground herbivores are overseen and underestimated, even though they can cause
significant economic losses in agriculture. The cabbage root fly Delia radicum …

As an important forestry pest, Coronaproctus castanopsis (Monophlebidae) has caused
serious damage to the globally valuable Gutianshan ecosystem, China. In this study, we …

Woolly apple aphid (WAA, Eriosoma lanigerum Hausmann)(Hemiptera: Aphididae) is a
major pest of apple trees (Malus domestica, order Rosales) and is critical to the economics …

The pink stem borer, Sesamia inferens (Walker), is a significant polyphagous pest
historically restricted to regions south of N34° latitude. However, with changes in global …

The reference genomes of Bombyx mori (B. mori), Silkworm Knowledge-based database
(SilkDB) and SilkBase, have served as the gold standard for nearly two decades. Their use …

Abstract Background The beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hübner), is a worldwide,
polyphagous agricultural pest feeding on vegetable, field, and flower crops. However, the …

Nesidiocoris tenuis (Reuter) is an efficient predatory biological control agent used
throughout the Mediterranean Basin in tomato crops but regarded as a pest in northern …

As the predominant pest of alfalfa, Odontothrips loti Haliday causes great damages over the
major alfalfa-growing regions of China. The characteristics of strong mobility and fecundity …

Meghimatium bilineatum is a notorious pest land slug used as a medicinal resource to treat
ailments in China. Although this no-model species is unique in terms of their ecological …

Among over 2,000 species of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), only 13 genomes
have been published so far, seriously limiting the researches on the phylogeny and adaptive …