RES Journal Awards 2025

Early career

We are once again delighted to announce the winners of the Royal Entomological Society Journal Awards for the best articles led by early career entomologists, published during 2025. The winners are judged by the Editors’-in-Chief of each journal using a wide variety of criteria to assess the papers, for example, scientific rigour, excellent writing, and novel insights. There was stiff competition and several highly commended papers were awarded in addition to the winners. As in previous years, we were astounded by both the number of qualifying papers, plus the quality of them. As a learned society, it’s important to us to support early career researchers and if these papers are anything to go by, insect science is going from strength to strength into the future.

Congratulations to all our winners!

_{Image above: The common blue (Polyommatus icarus), a facultative myrmecophile Lycaenid butterfly, showed the strongest declines of all investigated species in the study region. Photo (c) Eva Katharina Engelhardt, Insect Conservation and Diversity Winner 2025}

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.

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Highly Commended Articles: 

Agricultural and Forest Entomology:

• Ayman Asiri The smell of infection: Disease surveillance in insects using volatile organic compounds 27.1
• Dominik Stočes Environmental gradients and carabid beetle diversity: Insights from wildfire and intensive site preparation in a Central European forest 27.4

Ecological Entomology:

• Mona Storms Female moths call in vain: Streetlights diminish the promise of mating 50.4
• Bréa Raynaud-Berton How does ageing affect life history traits and cold tolerance in summer-versus winter-acclimated fruit flies? 50.4
• Anna-Marie Poskočilová Complex cues in habitat selection: Exploring the influence of vegetation and polarised light on backswimmers in predator-free environments 50.6

Insect Conservation and Diversity

• Oliver Patrick Stuart Gene flow stimulates recovery of reproductive fitness in a captive bred insect 18.5
• Esme Ashe-Jepson Local entomologists shine a light on moth communities: The value of amateur records in cataloguing long-term change 18.6

Insect Molecular Biology

• Bhagyashri Yashwant Chaudhari Metabolic gatekeepers: Dynamic roles of sugar transporters in insect metabolism and physiology 34.1
• Doga Cedden The quest for the best target genes for RNAi-mediated pest control 34.4

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

• Erika Mayerly Ospina Pérez Current and potential distribution of the neotropical hard tick Amblyomma patinoi (Ixodida: Ixodidae) 39.3

Physiological Entomology

• Gerben Debruyn Thin-film iridescence in the eggshell of a stick insect (Myronides glaucus) 50.1
• Tatyana Martynova A knockdown in the expression of a male-specific aminopeptidase impedes the male reproductive success of the mosquito Culex pipiens 50.3

Systematic Entomology

• Eliette L. Reboud Clarifying the phylogeny and systematics of the recalcitrant tribe Leptocircini (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) with whole-genome data 50.2
• Jill Oberski Ultraconserved element (UCE) phylogenomics illuminates the evolutionary history and biogeography of Dorymyrmex pyramid ants 50.2
• Yannick Juvé Phylogenomics of Messor harvester ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Stenammini) unravels their biogeographical origin and diversification patterns 50.4

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Our journal awards, given out by each of our 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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