Research conducted in recent years has documented the widespread presence of various
forms of color vision in species from across the animal kingdom, helped to develop an …

Simple Summary The Asian longhorned beetle (ALB), Anoplophora glabripennis
Motschulsky, is a destructive pest in its native habitat and one of the most serious invasive …

Colour signals and colour vision play a pivotal role in intraspecific communication and
predator–prey interactions. However, the costs of expressing conspicuous sexual signals at …

Background Opsins are light sensitive receptors associated with visual processes. Insects
typically possess opsins that are stimulated by ultraviolet, short and long wavelength (LW) …

Vision plays a vital biological role in organisms, which depends on the visual pigment
molecules (opsin plus chromophore). The expansion or reduction of spectral channels in the …

BACKGROUND The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera:
Psyllidae), is a prominent pest of citrus because it transmits Candidatus Liberibacter …

Light traps are widely utilized to monitor and manage insect pest populations. In late 2018,
the fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, invaded China through Yunnan Province …

Dragonflies are colorful diurnal insects with large compound eyes. Because they visually
recognize conspecific and heterospecific individuals, their body color plays essential roles in …

In an attempt to establish an experimental dragonfly model, we developed a laboratory
rearing system for the blue-tailed damselfly, Ischnura senegalensis. Adoption of multi-well …

The order Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) is among the most ancestral groups of
winged insects with drastic morphological changes upon metamorphosis, and thus …