Image: Ambulyx Sp., Common Gliding Hawkmoth, Photo credit (c) Pritha Dey, Ecological Entomology Winner 2024
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the Royal Entomological Society Journals awards for the best articles led by early career entomologists, published during 2024. The winners were selected by the Editors’-in-Chief of each journal using set criteria that assessed a wide variety of competencies, such as scientific rigour, excellent writing, and novel insights. There was stiff competition and several highly commended papers were awarded in addition to the winners. The number of qualifying papers, plus the quality of them, indicates that there is excellent work being done by early career researchers: a fantastic indication of an exciting future for insect science.
Congratulations to all our winners!
Meet the winners to find out more about them and their winning research
Click each image to find out more about the winners and read the winning article in each journal.
Gwenaëlle Deconninck
Agricultural and Forest Entomology
Pritha Dey
Ecological Entomology
Ashley Darst
Insect Conservation and Diversity
Qianyu He 何倩毓
Insect Molecular Biology
Denise Wawman
Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Robert Holdbrook
Physiological Entomology
Kyung Min Lee
Systematic Entomology
Highly Commended Articles:
Agricultural and Forest Entomology
Rebecca Innes Contrasting late season pest insect abundance in non-crop vegetation areas and nearby canola fields in the Canadian Prairies 26.3
Jakub Špoula Bark beetles on logging residues of European larch: Effects of shading and diameter of logging residues on infestation density 26.4
Luca Deganutti The semiochemical push-and-pull technique can reduce bark beetle damage in disturbed Norway spruce forests affected by the Vaia storm 26.1
Ecological Entomology
Samm K Reynolds A comprehensive review of long‐distance hover fly migration (Diptera: Syrphidae) (49.6)
Franciélli Cristiane Gruchowski Woitowicz Influence of generalist stingless bees on the structure of mutualistic flower–pollinator networks in the tropics: Temporal variation (49.3)
Insect Conservation and Diversity
Stephanie A. Rivest Taxonomic and functional homogenization of butterfly communities along an urban gradient (17.2)
Serena Magagnoli Flowering areas enhance insect pollinators and biological control agents in wheat intensive agro-ecosystems (17.5)
Insect Molecular Biology
Cesar Augusto Diniz Xavier RNAi-mediated knockdown of exportin 1 negatively affected ovary development, survival and maize mosaic virus accumulation in its insect vector Peregrinus maidis (33.4)
Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Angela Valcárel Alpha-Gal, epitope responsible for allergy to red meat, in the Mediterranean tick Hyalomma lusitanicum (38.3)
Physiological Entomology
Andrés Taucare-Ríos Evaluating thermal niche overlap of a predator-prey system: Do spiders choose suboptimal temperatures in pursuit of prey? (49.1)
Systematic Entomology
Highly Commended:
Joan C. Hinojosa Can species endure massive introgression? Genomic evidence of asymmetric gene flow in Melitaea butterflies (49.4)
Our journal awards, given out by each of our seven journals, are designed to celebrate excellent research by Early Career Entomologists in the specific fields covered by our journal portfolio. Editors assess all eligible articles based on whether they are topical, have a broad interest, are well communicated and in an area of interest for the journal.
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