Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) or spotted wing Drosophila is a worldwide invasive pest of
soft‐and stone‐fruit production. Female D. suzukii lay their eggs in ripening fruit and the …

Abstract Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) is an invasive alien species devastating
soft fruit crops in newly invaded territories. Little is known about the importance and potential …

Grapevines are challenged by a range of diseases and pests, causing economic losses and
requiring often costly approaches to mitigate damage. Public interest in reducing the use of …

Cuticle barrier efficiency in insects depends largely on cuticular lipids. To learn about the
evolution of cuticle barrier function, we compared the basic properties of the cuticle inward …

Abstract Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura, 1931), the spotted‐wing drosophila, is a highly
invasive fruit fly that spread from Southern Asia across most regions of Asia and, in the last …

Abstract Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura; Diptera: Drosophilidae) is an invasive pest with the
ability to reproduce not only in various soft fruit crops, but also in numerous wild hosts …

Biological invasions have reached large parts of the globe, due to human actions across the
planet. Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura, 1931) is a globally invasive species, always …

Synthetic gene drives are transgenic constructs that aim to bias heredity and thereby
influence the characteristics and fate of populations regarding abundance and evolution …

The Asian chestnut gall wasp, Dryocosmus kuriphilus, is an invasive pest causing significant
damage to chestnut trees (Castanea spp., Fagaceae). Originating from China, it has recently …

Drosophila suzukii is an insect pest of worldwide distribution on soft-skinned fruit. This
species is able to utilize different habitats and substrates for nutrition and reproduction, a …