2018 Winners - for best papers published during 2016-17
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY
Sarah L. Facey, David B. Fidler, Rhiannon C. Rowe, Lisa M. Bromfield, Sabine S. Nooten, Joanna T.Staley, David S. Ellsworth and Scott N. Johnson

Atmospheric change causes declines in woodland arthropods and impacts specific trophic groups.

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 19 (1), 101-112, 2017.

ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY
Tom R. Bishop, Mark P. Robertson, Berndt J. Van Rensburg and Catherine L. Parr

Coping with the cold: minimum temperatures and thermal tolerances dominate the ecology of mountain ants.

Ecological Entomology, 42 (2), 105-114, 2017.

INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY
Alessandro Campanaro, Livia Zapponi, Sönke Hardersen, Marcos Mendez, Nida Al Fulaij, Paolo Audisio, Marco Bardiani, Giuseppe M. Carpaneto, Serena Corezzola, Francesca Della Rocca, Deborah Harvey, Colin Hawes, Marcin Kadej, Jerzy Karg, Markus Rink, Adrian Smolis, Eva Spencer, Arno Thomaes, Ilaria Toni, Al Vrezec, Agnese Zauli, Michelle Zilioli and Stefano Chiari

A European monitoring protocol for the stag beetle, a saproxylic flagship species.

Insect Conservation and Diversity, 9 (6), 574-584, 2016.

INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
K. Cappelle, C.F.R de Oliveira, B.Van Eynde, O. Christiaens and G. Smagghe

The involvement of clathrin-mediated endocytosis and two Sid-1-like transmembrane proteins in double-stranded RNA uptake in the Colorado potato beetle midgut.

Insect Molecular Biology, 25 (3), 315-323, 2016.

2017 Winners - for best papers published during 2015-16 
MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY
C.. NELSON, S BANKS, C.L. JEFFRIES, T. WALKER and  J.G. LOGAN

Tick abundances in South London parks and the potential risk for Lyme borreliosis to the general public

Medical and Veterinary Entomology (2015) 29, 448 - 452

PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY
GAETANO SOLAZZO, KARSTEN SEIDELMANN, ROBIN F. A. MORITZ and JOSEF SETTELE

Tetracosane on the cuticle of the parasitic butterfly Phengaris (Maculinea) nausithous triggers the first contact in the adoption process by Myrmica rubra foragers

Physiological Entomology (2015) 40, 10 - 17

SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY
GAVIN J. SVENSON, NATE B. HARDY, HALEY M. CAHILL WIGHTMAN and FRANK WIELAND

Of flowers and twigs: phylogenetic revision of the plant-mimicking praying mantises (Mantodea: Empusidae and Hymenopodidae) with new suprageneric classification

Systematic Entomology (2015), 40, 789 - 834