Connections between locusts and people date back millennia and locusts remain a major
food security challenge today throughout the world. Locust biology is often linked to abiotic …

Chemoreception plays a crucial role in the reproduction and survival of insects, which often
rely on their sense of smell and taste to find partners, suitable habitats, and food sources …

Locust outbreaks have long been a very serious problem for agriculture and livelihoods in
many countries globally. This article is an introduction to a Special Issue of the journal …

Grasshoppers are important elements for supporting ecosystem services which make it
important to understand their spatial distribution characteristics to reduce outbreaks …

Animal genomes vary widely in size, and much of their architecture and content remains
poorly understood. Even among related groups, such as orders of insects, genomes may …

Nutritious and sustainable food sources are much needed to compensate for the rising
demand for food due to the ever-growing human population. The idea of using insects as …

The evolution of several orthopteran groups, especially within the grasshopper family
Acrididae, remains poorly understood. This is particularly true for the subfamily …

Nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes (NUMTs) result from the transfer of mitochondrial DNA
(mtDNA) to the nuclear genome. NUMTs, as “frozen” snapshots of mitochondria, can provide …

Vegetables are one of the commodities that support the economic sector. Many factors affect
the success rate of vegetable production, including pests. Grasshoppers are herbivorous …

Comparative studies of insect genome size show that Orthoptera is a unique group of
Insecta with a significantly enlarged genome. To determine a suitable internal standard for a …