Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Brief summary of minutes of annual meeting:

The meeting had two primary objectives. The first was to introduce the group with new members and gain insights into ongoing research. The second was to formulate specific plans for collaborative group projects. Since the beginning of our multistate project, our aim has been to leverage our geographic diversity, a variety of approaches, and shared goals to collectively impact pest and pollinator management positively. During the previous annual meeting, we identified broad areas for potential group projects where participants believed we could successfully translate our fundamental understanding of chemical communication into practical applications for pest and pollinator management. This year, a key focus was to update the members on these projects and explore new projects with applied potential that we could collaboratively pursue.

To that end, the objectives of this meeting were to:

1. Provide updates on the multistate Hatch project and NIFA funding sources.
2. Discuss new research developments over the past year, in particular introducing new members.
3. Discuss four project ideas and measure the group’s interest in pursuing. Identify ways of collaborating to meet those goals.

On October 27, 2023, the group met to discuss research developments over the past year with individual presentations by 12 participants. These presentations are discussed in the Accomplishments section below. In the afternoon, we provided updates of ongoing Group projects and discussed ideas for new projects. The Group project ideas are also discussed in the Accomplishment section below.

 At the meeting, the group had an update on the multistate Hatch project by our administrative advisor Dr. Blair Siegfried and had an update and discussion with Erica Kistner-Thomas, National Program Leader from NIFA. We then discussed four Group projects.

Short term outcomes: Building Opportunities for Collaboration:

Building on the impact areas discussed during the previous multistate meeting, several group members have identified promising areas with significant applied potential over the next 3-5 years. These proposed projects were presented to the group and sparked extensive discussion during the meeting. Recognizing a critical opportunity for collaboration, the group aims to leverage past successes and evaluate their applicability across diverse systems. Given the variety of systems in which we conduct research, we are uniquely positioned to perform similar assays across different environmental and cropping systems, allowing us to gain a comprehensive understanding of how and why certain approaches consistently yield positive results.

Four Group Projects

1. Opinion paper—the group discussed writing an opinion paper on the challenges facing the registration of semiochemicals for pest control. For this, the group invited Dr. Agenor Mafra-Neto, CEO of ISCA technologies. During the discussion, Dr. Mafra-Neto highlighted the current pathways for registering semiochemicals and shed light on the difficulties his company encounters, particularly when registering products containing blends of compounds that lack tolerance exemptions. The primary goal of the opinion paper is to educate the public, academia, and government agencies on semiochemicals, their applications, the hurdles in the registration process, and suggest potential solutions.

2. Predalure—a Group project was initiated in 2022 and continued in 2023 to evaluate the potential for using herbivore-induced plant volatiles to attract the natural enemies of herbivores. Methyl salicylate has been found to be attractive to natural enemies in many systems and is marketed under the tradename PredaLure (winter green oil—methyl salicylate). However, it is not known how different groups of natural enemies will respond to methyl salicylate in different crops and different locations. Cesar Rodriguez-Saona and his postdoc Patricia Prade (Rutgers) led this project to test PredaLure in multiple crops and multiple states (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia). This project provided an opportunity to train students across states in chemical ecology by involving them in field research and group project meetings.

3. Meta-analysis on HIPVs—this group project led by Cesar Rodriguez-Saona and Sara Hermann will analyze data from peer-reviewed papers on the response of natural enemies of herbivores to synthetic herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) in the field. While HIPVs have been employed for decades to attract natural enemies, their response may vary across different crops. Utilizing data from published papers, this project seeks to investigate and understand the diverse responses of natural enemies to HIPVs in the field. The ultimate goal is to predict how natural enemies react to HIPVs and identify key areas for future research.

4. Context of management strategies—Jennifer Thaler led discussions on the impact of various environmental conditions, such as soil composition, on management strategies like host-plant resistance.

Outputs:

Work and accomplishments over the past year include: 

• Agrawal’s group have been studying striped cucumber beetle and squash bugs to examine joint management possibilities via chemical ecology and breeding. In particular, they have been studying their pheromones as well as plant resistance in the descendants of the two domestication events of Cucurbita pepo. Squash bugs exploit the pheromone of striped cucumber beetle for host choice and this has implications for management: while there are trade-offs in varietal preference based on the two domesticates, synergistic trapping of both pests may be possible (via shared use of pheromone cues).
• Kessler’s lab demonstrated in a maize intercropping system that chemical signals from neighboring plants as well as plant chemistry-mediated plant-soil feedbacks affect plant secondary metabolism and thus resistance to herbivores and biomass accumulation. Most importantly, plant-soil feedback affects plant secondary metabolism in fundamentally different ways than chemical signals from neighboring plants. In consequence, rotation cropping and intercropping of maize with legumes can have fundamentally different effects on plant metabolism and performance. Moreover, chemical elicitation effects differ with intercrop species.
• Syed’s lab is working on chemosensory basis of host/mate finding and avoidance/repellence. They just submitted a review of the concepts of attraction and repulsion in ticks. The lab continues to focus on researching spotted-wing drosophila (SWD) oviposition.
• Dweck’s lab is deciphering how spotted lanternfly (SLF), an invasive polyphagous planthopper in North America, engages with its environment is a pressing issue with fundamental biological significance and economic importance. This interaction primarily depends on olfaction. However, the cellular basis of olfaction in SLF remains elusive. The lab is identifying new odorants that may be useful for managing this serious pest.
• Karban’s lab continues to examine the mechanisms and consequences of volatile communication leading to induced resistance in Artemisia. They also conducted experiments examining the potential role of trichomes in communication in tomato and examined petal shading as a response to heat stress.
• Hoover’s lab is investigating whether sequestration of toxin from tree of heaven by the SLF affects predator feeding preference.

• Thaler’s lab is studying the non-consumptive effects of predators on herbivores and their potential use in agriculture. They are using the aggregation pheromone of stinkbug predator to reduce number of Colorado potato beetles and their damage and to increase tuber yield.
• Rodriguez-Saona’s lab is studying the effects of domestication on plant guttation and tri-trophic interactions. They are also studying the repellent effects of volatiles from anthracnose-infected fruits on SWD.

• McArt’s lab found that wax in NYS honey bee colonies contains 17 pesticides, on average, and some of these pesticides are known to synergize with each other. They also assessed how bees are exposed to pesticides in orchards and in this process found that most species of wild bees spill over from adjacent forest habitats to conduct crop pollination. When they placed experimental bumble bee colonies in orchards, they also found that they can function as ecological traps for wild nest-searching queens. This publication prompted rapid industry change in queen excluder practices for all outdoor hives sold in the USA.
• Loeb’s lab continued research on discovery and development of repellents for SWD including large scale field testing of 2-pentylfuran (2pf) in fall raspberries, including impacts on beneficial arthropods. Also conducted lab bioassays on two other candidate repellents and began lab bioassays on specific mechanisms underlying repellency of 2pf. Conducted lab assessments of response of larval parasitoids of SWD to infested and uninfested fruit odors.
• Casteel’s lab identified the 16 most common soil management practices across 80+ organic farms in NY. Two of the most common practices were cover cropping and composting. Using lab and field experiments we found cereal rye and canola cover crops reduced pest damage and enhanced plant resistance through changes in the soil microbiome. We used this data to obtain funding from NIFA ORG on the impact of seed origin on resilience enhancing soil microbiomes.
• Vannette’s lab continued to examine how nectar chemistry influences microbial communities and attraction to pollinators. We conducted experiments comparing nectar chemistry and antimicrobial potential of 30+ plant species. We examined responses of 3 pollinator species to microbial colonization of nectar. We examined the role of hydrogen peroxide in antimicrobial defense of nectar.
• Losey’s lab collected volatiles from the flowers and foliage of several species of carrot plants (Queen Anne's lace, poison hemlock, and wild parsnip). They have separated out the volatiles using GC-MS and characterized their emissions using principal component analyses. They found that the flowers of the three plants have several compounds in common that are candidate attractants for predators. They are now testing these compounds singly and in combination for their attractiveness to lady beetles. Additionally, we have identified and annotated all of the chemoreceptors (ionotropic, gustatory, olfactory, etc.) from the genomes of several lady beetle species for downstream functional characterizations in attraction.
• The focus of Dr. Ahn’s lab is on insect-plant interactions using biochemical and molecular tools not only to understand host plant adaptation strategies of arthropod herbivores, but also to develop novel strategies for integrated pest management. They have established a CRISPR/Cas9 technique to edit the genomes of lepidopteran species, including soybean looper and corn earworm. A visual phenotypic marker gene was successfully knocked out to prove the concept of the technique. They are currently applying to edit detoxification genes to understand the molecular mechanism of host-plant adaptation.
• Keyan-Zhu’s lab is studying the genetic and molecular bases of insect-plant-environment interactions, using electron beam to control storage insect pests and insect-vectored diseases, uncovering the mechanism of insect tolerance to hypoxia, and exploiting the metabolic constraint in insects and manipulate plant sterol profiles to control herbivore insects.
• Stout’s group found that rice plants deficient in their ability to take up silicon from the soil were more susceptible to fall armyworm in greenhouse trials and to brown spot in field trials. Levels of some secondary metabolites were affected in mutants but the ability of mutant plants to respond to herbivory was not compromised. Two methods of coating rice seeds with solutions containing methyl jasmonate were evaluated in field trials but neither was as effective as seed soaking. Treatment of cotton seeds with methyl jasmonate imparted resistance in seedlings to thrips. They also characterized the spatial extent of induction of ipomeamarone (furnaoterpenoid) by sweetpotato weevil.
• Stratton’s lab contributed preliminary work on an electroantennography study testing whether SWD habituates to natural repellents. They were also able to establish plants at our field station. One of the species, Silphium integrifolium, has insecticidal compounds they are interested in testing. They also established the Cheminformatics/Bioinformatics Data Processing Unit where they are filling out chemical function dictionaries for high-throughput functional screening of plant chemicals.
• Alyokhin’s lab continued work on using RNAi for managing Colorado potato beetles. The first sprayable active ingredient based on dsRNA, ledprona, has been issued an experimental use permit for the 2023 growing season. They tested the effects of ledprona on olfactory responses of Colorado potato beetles.
• Kariyat’s lab is studying the chemical ecology of soybean- soybean looper interactions and rice-fall armyworm interactions.
• Chen’s lab optimized the protocols for histone extractions and quantification. We have generated helpful preliminary data on the relationship between insecticide dosage and histone modifications.
• Poveda’s lab performed growth chamber and field experiments to test the attraction of seedcorn maggot to different soil amendments. They found that soil amendments such as manure and decomposing organic matter are very attractive for seedcorn maggot.
• Duplais’ lab is starting a project to evaluate the effectiveness of pheromone traps for monitoring insect pests. They aged corn earworm and codling moth lures from different suppliers and quantified the amount of pheromone emitted and remaining in the dispenser after aging the lures from 1 to 4 weeks in the field. They establish a correlation between the amount of pheromone emitted and the number of catch. They are also studying the detoxification of tomato steroidal alkaloid in the cabbage lopper. They have identified the detoxification product, the quantity uptaken, and the time required to excrete it from the caterpillar's body. They showed the variation between a wild-type strain and a Bt-resistant strain.
• Adler’s lab is studying how sunflowers affect bee communities, parasite resistance and health in agroecosystems, and also intersections between abiotic conditions (drought), pesticide exposure and pathogen dynamics in the common eastern bumble bee.
• Helms’ lab is evaluating the impacts of introducing beneficial insect-killing nematodes for biological control and enhanced plant resistance to improve pest management in cucurbit crops. We are also characterizing chemically mediated interactions among plants and herbivores in a squash agroecosystem to better understand plant resistance and impacts on the herbivore community. 
• Kersh-Becker’s lab focused on two key areas: (1) the impact of climate change on tritrophic interactions and (2) the effects of plant defenses on biological control. Their findings revealed that while drought can decrease pest numbers, it reduces the efficacy of biological control. Additionally, they found that salicylate defenses of plants enhance the biological control of aphids.
• Members of the UMass Cranberry Station (Sandler, Uppala, Mupambi) evaluated several coppers and biologicals products in 2022 and 2023 growing seasons SOLO and as part of fungicide regimes with a goal to develop an integrated cranberry fruit rot management program, identified fungicide regimes with coppers and biologicals that worked efficiently in reducing fruit rot, studied the fruit and soil microbiome of cranberry from wild and managed (conventional and organic) ecosystems through 16 S and ITS sequencing, and characterized the most prevalent cranberry fruit rot fungi from Massachusetts cranberry bogs using Multiplex PCR.

Milestones

As a group, we met a major milestone by establishing four large group projects. Individual projects met their own milestones.

Publications

Aflitto, N. Ugine, T, Dittmar, A, and J.S. Thaler. 2023. Semiochemical release and ontogenetic changes in a primary scent gland of Podisus maculiventris. J. Chemical Ecology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-023-01411-8

Babu, A., Rhodes, E.M., Rodriguez-Saona, C., Liburd, O.E., and Sial, A.A. 2023. Comparison of multimodal attract-and-kill formulations for managing Drosophila suzukii: behavioral and lethal effects. PLoS ONE 18(12): e0293587. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293587.

Bhavanam, S and M.J. Stout. 2022. Varietal resistance and chemical ecology of the rice stink bug, Oebalus pugnax, on rice, Oryza sativa. Plants 2022, 11(22), 3169; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11223169

Bischoff, K., N. Baert, and S. H. McArt. 2023. Pesticide contamination of beeswax from 72 managed honeybee colonies in New York State. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 35:617-624. https://doi.org/10.1177/10406387231199098

Brzozowski, L.J., D.C. Weber, A.K. Wallingford, M. Mazourek, and A.A. Agrawal.  2022. Tradeoffs and synergies in management of two co-occurring specialist squash pests. Journal of Pest Science 95: 327–338.

Bueno, E. M., C. McIlhenny, and Y. H. Chen. 2022. Cross-protection interactions in insect pests: Implications for pest management in a changing climate. Pest Management Science. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ps.7191

Caitlin, R., Quadrel, A., Urbaneja-Bernat, P., Beck, J.J., Ben-Zvi, Y., Khodadadi, F., Aćimović, S.G., and Rodriguez-Saona, C. 2023. Blueberries infected with the fungal pathogen Colletotrichum fioriniae release odors that repel Drosophila suzukii. Pest Management Science. doi: 10.1002/ps.7692

Cecala, Jacob M., and Rachel L. Vannette. Nontarget impacts of neonicotinoids on nectar-inhabiting microbes. bioRxiv (2023): 2023-11                           

Chang, Y., J. Lei, A.E. Alvarez, T. Chappell, X. Tang, I.W. Chen, C. Penca, W.D. Bailey, S. Pillai, C. Tamborindeguy, Y. Du and K. Zhu-Salzman (2023) Electron beam irradiation reduces bacterial abundance and transmission by potato psyllids. Entomologia Generalis 43: 441-450. 

Chen, J., X. Chen, M.J. Stout, and J.A. Davis. 2022. Belowground herbivory to sweetpotato by sweetpotato weevil (Coleoptera:Brentidae) alters population dynamics and probing behavior of aboveground herbivores. Journal of Economic Entomology 115: 1069-1075, https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toac098.

Chen, Y. H., Z. P. Cohen, E. M. Bueno, B. M. Christensen, and Sean D. Schoville. 2023. Rapid evolution of insecticide resistance in the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata. Current Opinion in Insect Science 55: 101000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2022.101000

Cohen, Z. P., Y. H. Chen, R. Groves, and S. D. Schoville. 2022. Evidence of hard-selective sweeps suggest independent adaptation to insecticides in Colorado potato beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) populations. Evolutionary Applications 15(10): 1691-1705. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eva.13498

Fabri-Lima, A.1, Aguirre, N.M.1, Grunseich, J.G.1, Carvalho, G.A., Helms, A.M., Peñaflor, M.F.G.V. (2023) Effects of neonicotinoid seed treatment on maize anti-herbivore defenses vary across plant genotypes. Journal of Pest Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-023-01641-5

Fowler AE, Kola EU and LS Adler 2023. The effect of sunflower pollen age and origin on pathogen infection in the common eastern bumble bee, Bombus impatiens (Apidae: Hymenoptera). Journal of Economic Entomology toad154, https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toad154

Francis, Jacob S., Tobias G. Mueller, and Rachel L. Vannette. Intraspecific variation in realized dispersal probability and host quality shape nectar microbiomes. New Phytologist 240.3 (2023): 1233-1245.

Gikonyo, M.W., Ahn, S.-J., Biondi, M., Fritzlar, F., Okamura, Y., Vogel, H., Köllner, T.G., Şen, I., Hernández-Teixidor, D., Lee, C.-F., Letsch, H., Beran, F. 2023. A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes. Evolution qpad197. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad197

Grant, C., Saurabh, K., Hayward, A., Hunt, B.J., Troczka, B.J., Pym, A., Ahn, S.-J., Zeng, B., Gao, C., Leroux, A., Daum, E., Süess, P., Souza, D., Elias, J., Richard, H., Vontas, J., Roditakis, E., Bielza, P., Zimmer, C.T., Bass, C. 2023. Overexpression of the UDP-glycosyltransferase UGT34A23 confers resistance to the diamide insecticide chlorantraniliprole in the tomato leafminer, Tuta absoluta. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 159, 103983.

He, L., I.W. Chen, Z. Zhang, W. Zheng, A. Sayadi, L. Wang, W. Sang, R. Ji, J. Lei, G. Arnqvist, C. Lei and K. Zhu-Salzman (2022) In silico promoter analysis and functional validation identify CmZFH, the co-regulator of hypoxia-responsive genes CmScylla and CmLPCAT. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 140, 103681. 

Hoover, K., L. Iavorivska, E. K. Lavely, O. Uyi, B. Walsh, E. Swackhamer, and D. M. Eissenstat. 2023. Effects of long-term feeding by spotted lanternfly on ecophysiology of common hardwood host trees. Environ. Entomol. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvad084.

Isbilir, S., Catchot, B., Catchot, L., Musser, F.R., Ahn, S.‐J. 2023. Molecular characterization and expression patterns of a ryanodine receptor in soybean looper, Chrysodeixis includens. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 114, e22047.

Johnson, A., A. Cornell, and K. Hoover. 2023. Birds biting bad bugs: Using community science to identify endemic predators of spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) in North America. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485323000317.

Kalske, A., Shiojiri, K., Uesugi, A., Sakata, Y., Morrell, K., and Kessler, A. (2019). Insect herbivory selects for volatile-mediated plant-plant communication. Curr. Biol. 29, 3128–3133.      

Karban, R. and A. A. Agrawal. 2023. The distribution of species interactions. Quarterly Review of Biology 98:203-218

Karban, R., D. Rutkowski and N. A. Murray. 2023. Flowers that self-shade reduce heat stress and pollen limitation. American Journal of Botany 110:e16109.

Labbé F, Abdeladhim M, Abrudan J, Araki AS, Araujo RN, Arensburger P, Benoit JB, Brazil RP, Bruno RV, Bueno da Silva Rivas G: Genomic analysis of two phlebotomine sand fly vectors of leishmania from the new and old World. PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2023, 17:e0010862.

Lavely, E.K., L. Iavorivska, O. Uyi, E. Primka, J.  Harper, B. Walsh, D.M. Eissenstat, and K. Hoover.  2022. Impacts of short-term feeding by Lycorma delicatula on ecophysiology of hardwood trees in a common garden. Front. Insect Sci. https://doi.org/10.3389/finsc.2022.1080124.

Lei, J., Y. Tan, F. List, R. Puckett, A.M. Tarone, E.L. Vargo and K. Zhu-Salzman (2022) Cloning and functional characterization of a dsRNA-degrading nuclease in the tawny crazy ant (Nylanderia fulva). Frontiers in Physiology 13:833652. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2022.833652. 

Lingeman D, O'Dell K, Syed Z: Developing attractants and repellents for ticks: Promises and challenges Current Opinion in Insect Science 2023.

List, F., A.M. Tarone, K. Zhu-Salzman and E.L. Vargo (2022) RNA meets toxicology: Efficacy indicators from the experimental design of RNAi studies for insect pest management. Pest Management Science 78: 3215-3225. 

Littler A, Pandey P, O'Dell KL, Syed Z: Chemical Ecology of Oviposition Dynamics in Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae). J Econ Entomol 2022, 115:1029-1035.

Liu, Z., S. Hou, O. Rodrigues, P. Wang, D Luo, S. Munemasa, J. Lei, J. Liu, F.A. Ortiz-Morea, X. Wang, K. Nomura, C. Yin, H. Wang, W. Zhang, K. Zhu-Salzman, S.Y. He, P. He and L. Shan (2022) Phytocytokine signalling reopens stomata in plant immunity and water loss. Nature 605:332–339. 

Mason, C. J., M. Peiffer, K. Hoover, and G. Felton. 2023. Tomato chemical defenses intensify corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea) mortality from opportunistic bacterial pathogens. J. Chem. Ecol. DOI: 10.1007/s10886-023-01420-7.

Mason, C.J., M. Peiffer, A. St. Clair, K. Hoover and G.W. Felton 2022. Concerted impacts of antiherbivore defenses and opportunistic Serratia pathogens on the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda). Oecologia 198:167–178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05072-w.

Mason, C.J., M. Peiffer, B. Chen, K. Hoover and G.W. Felton. 2022. Opposing growth responses of lepidopteran larvae to the establishment of gut microbiota. Microbiology Spectrum DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.01941-22.

Mason, C.J., M. Peiffer, G.W. Felton and K. Hoover. 2022. Host-specific larval lepidopteran mortality to pathogenic Serratia mediated by poor diet. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 194: 107818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2022.107818

Meineke, E.K., D. S. Eng and R. Karban. 2023. Vehicle pollution is associated with elevated insect damage to street trees. Journal of Applied Ecology 60:263-277.

Miller, C., Vitousek, M., and J.S. Thaler. 2022 Light at night disrupts trophic interactions and population growth of lady beetles and pea aphids. Oecologia 199:527-535.

Miller, O., C. Hale, L. Richardson, D. Sossa, A. Iverson, S. H. McArt, K. Poveda and H. Grab. 2023. Commercial bumble bee colonies function as ecological traps for wild bumble bee queens. Journal of Applied Ecology 60:592-600. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14353

Montovan, K, N. Tigreros, and J.S. Thaler. 2022. Size dependent fitness trade-offs of foraging in the presence of predators for prey with different growth patterns. Journal of Theoretical Biology. https://rdcu.be/cPbOj

Mueller, Tobias G., Jacob S. Francis, and Rachel L. Vannette. Nectar compounds impact bacterial and fungal growth and shift community dynamics in a nectar analog. Environmental Microbiology Reports (2023) 15(3) 170-18.

Pallis, S., A. Alyokhin, B. Manley, T. B. Rodrigues, A. Buzza, E. Barnes, and K. Narva. 2022. Toxicity of a novel dsRNA-based insecticide to the Colorado potato beetle in laboratory and field trials. Pest Management Science 78: 3836-3848.

Pallis, S., A. Alyokhin, B. Manley, T. Rodrigues, E. Barnes, and K. Narva. 2023. Effects of low doses of a novel dsRNA-based biopesticide (Calantha) on the Colorado potato beetle. Journal of Economic Entomology 116: 456-461.  

Roch JCU, Malfi MP, Van Wyk JIP, Muñoz AgudeloG, Milam J and LS Adler. 2023. The intersection of bee and flower sexes: Pollen presence shapes sex-specific bee foraging associations in sunflower. Environmental Entomology. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvad021

Roh, G.H., Kendra, P.E., Zhu, J.J., Roda, A., Loeb, G.M., Tay, J., Cha, D.H. 2023.  Coconut oil derived five-component synthetic oviposition deterrent for oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis. Pest Management Science.  DOI.org/10.1002/ps.7584.

Roh, G.H., Meier, L., Hesler, S., Zhu, J.J., Kendra, P., Roda, A., Loeb, G. Tay, J., Cha, D.H. 2023. A 2-component blend of coconut oil derived fatty acids as an oviposition deterrent against Drosophila suzukii.  Journal of Economic Entomology, 116: 1671-1678, DOI.org/10.1093/jee/toad092.

Syed Z, O’Dell Jr KL: Finding a repellent against ticks: neurophysiological and behavioral approaches. In Advances in Arthropod Repellents. Edited by: Elsevier; 2022:131-140.

Syed Z: Chemical notes of tsetse fly mating. Science 2023, 379:638-639.

Thompson, M.N., Arriaga, J., Bradford, B.J., Kurian, R., Strozier, G., Helms, A.M. (2023) Belowground insect herbivory induces systemic volatile emissions that strengthen neighboring plant resistance aboveground. Plant, Cell & Environment https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14762

Urbaneja-Bernat, P., Tena, A., González-Cabrera, J., and Rodriguez-Saona, C. 2023. An insect’s energy bar:  the potential role of plant guttation on biological control. Current Opinion in Insect Science 61:101140. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2023.101140

Urban-Mead, K. R., P. Muñiz, M. Van Dyke, A. D. Young, B. N. Danforth and S. H. McArt. 2023. Early spring orchard pollinators spill over from resource-rich adjacent forest patches. Journal of Applied Ecology 60:553-564. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14350

Yoon, H.J., Price, B.E., Parks, R.K., Ahn, S.-J., Choi, M.-Y. 2023. Diuretic hormone 31 activates two G protein-coupled receptors with differential second messengers for diuresis in Drosophila suzukii. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 162, 104025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2023.104025

Yoon, J.-S., Ahn, S.-J., Choi, M.-Y. 2023. Selection and comparative gene expression of midgut-specific targets for Drosophila suzukii. Insects 14, 76. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14010076 61

Yost RTU, Fowler AEG, and LS Adler. 2023. Gut transplants from bees fed an antipathogenic pollen diet do not confer pathogen resistance to recipients. Microbial Ecology. Pp 1-5.