Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Insects 2021 Best Paper Awards. All papers published in 2019 in Insects were considered for the awards. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the three winning papers, which were nominated by the journal’s Award Committee, have been selected.

Articles:

Olfactory Preference of Drosophila suzukii Shifts between Fruit and Fermentation Cues over the Season: Effects of Physiological Status
By: Rik Clymans, Vincent Van Kerckvoorde, Eva Bangels, Wannes Akkermans, Ammar Alhmedi, Patrick De Clercq, Tim Beliën and Dany Bylemans
Insects 2019, 10(7), 200

Telenomus remus, a Candidate Parasitoid for the Biological Control of Spodoptera frugiperda in Africa, is already Present on the Continent
By: Marc Kenis, Hannalene du Plessis, Johnnie Van den Berg, Malick Niango Ba, Georg Goergen, Koffi Eric Kwadjo, Ibrahim Baoua, Tadele Tefera, Alan Buddie, Giovanni Cafà, Lisa Offord, Ivan Rwomushana and Andrew Polaszek
Insects 2019, 10(4), 92

Review:

Symbiotic Plant Biomass Decomposition in Fungus-Growing Termites
By: Rafael R. da Costa, Haofu Hu, Hongjie Li and Michael Poulsen
Insects 2019, 10(4), 87

The authors will receive an award of 500 CHF and an opportunity to publish one paper free of charge in Insects in 2021, after the normal peer review procedure. We believe the above papers represent valuable contributions to Insects and the scientific literature. We warmly congratulate the winners.
 
Insects 2021 Best Paper Award
 
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

Louis-Clément Gouagna
Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs : Écologie, Génétique, Évolution et Contrôledisabled, Montpellier, France
Vaclav Stejskal
Research Institute of Crop Production, Prague, Czech Republic
Sandra Skendžić
Department of Agricultural Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetosimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Winner

Alexis Beaurepaire
1 Institute of Bee Health, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 3003 Bern, Switzerland 2 Agroscope, Swiss Bee Research Center, 3003 Bern, Switzerland 3 UR Abeilles et Environnement, INRAE, 84914 Avignon, France
Cristina Menta
Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Viale delle Scienze 11/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
Byju N. Govindan
Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA

Award Committee

Prof. Brian Forschler Chairman
University of Georgia

Winner

Rik Clymans
1 Zoology/Pomology Department, Research Centre for Fruit Cultivation (pcfruit npo), Fruittuinweg 1, B-3800 Sint-Truiden, Belgium 2 Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, B
Tim Beliën
Zoology/Pomology Department, Research Centre for Fruit Cultivation (pcfruit npo), Fruittuinweg 1, B-3800 Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Michael Poulsen
Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen East, Denmark

Winner

Dara G. Stockton
Department of Entomology, Cornell AgriTech and New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456, USA
Christine T. Griffin
Department of Biology, Maynooth University, W23 A023 Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
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