Myriad tiny insect species take to the air to engage in windborne migration, but entomology
also has its 'charismatic megafauna'of butterflies, large moths, dragonflies and locusts. The …

Insect populations including butterflies are declining worldwide, and they are becoming an
urgent conservation priority in many regions. Understanding which butterfly species migrate …

Insects provide critical ecosystem services such as biological pest control, in which natural
enemies (NE) regulate the populations of crop-feeding herbivores (H). While H-NE …

Migrating animals have an impact on ecosystems directly via influxes of predators, prey, and
competitors and indirectly by vectoring nutrients, energy, and pathogens. Although linkages …

Over the past two decades efforts to control malaria have halved the number of cases
globally, yet burdens remain high in much of Africa and the elimination of malaria has not …

Migration, broadly defined as directional movement to take advantage of spatially distributed
resources, is a dramatic behaviour and an important component of many life histories that …

BACKGROUND The fall armyworm (FAW), an invasive pest from the Americas, is rapidly
spreading through the Old World, and has recently invaded the Indochinese Peninsula and …

Fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith), is a highly mobile insect pest of a wide
range of host crops. However, this pest of tropical origin cannot survive extended periods of …

Despite the fact that migratory insects dominate aerial bioflows in terms of diversity,
abundance, and biomass [1–6], the migration patterns of most species, and the effects of …

Threats to migratory animals can occur at multiple periods of the annual cycle that are
separated by thousands of kilometres and span international borders. Populations of the …