The relevance of goal directed movement for insect pest control

IF 5.8 1区农林科学 Q1 BIOLOGY

Current opinion in insect science Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI:10.1016/j.cois.2025.101374

Ajay Narendra , Dinesh Rao

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Abstract

Efficient locomotion is a fundamental feature and requisite of all insects. Some insects, such as mosquito larvae, travel just a few centimetres, whereas others, such as Bogong moths, migrate over several hundreds of kilometers. Some insects traverse in air, others in water and some on ground. For goal-directed movement, irrespective of body size, the scale at which insects move, or the medium in which they travel, the principles of navigation remain the same. In this article, we discuss some of the visual navigational tasks that insects carry out and highlight the recent techniques developed to reconstruct visual information and track animals with exceptional accuracy. We emphasise the need to understand the visual ecology of insects and to adopt tracking tools and methods to control the movement and spread of insect pests.

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目标导向运动与害虫防治的相关性

高效的运动是所有昆虫的基本特征和必要条件。一些昆虫，如蚊子幼虫，只移动几厘米，而另一些昆虫，如博贡蛾，可以迁移几百公里。有些昆虫在空中飞行，有些在水中，有些在地面上。对于以目标为导向的运动，无论昆虫的体型大小、运动的规模或运动的媒介如何，它们的导航原理都是一样的。在本文中，我们讨论了昆虫进行的一些视觉导航任务，并重点介绍了最近开发的重建视觉信息和精确跟踪动物的技术。我们强调有必要了解昆虫的视觉生态，并采用跟踪工具和方法来控制害虫的移动和传播。

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来源期刊

Current opinion in insect science BIOLOGYECOLOGYENTOMOLOGY-ECOLOGY

CiteScore

10.40

自引率

1.90%

发文量

113

期刊介绍： Current Opinion in Insect Science is a new systematic review journal that aims to provide specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up–to–date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of Insect Science. As this is such a broad discipline, we have determined themed sections each of which is reviewed once a year. The following 11 areas are covered by Current Opinion in Insect Science. -Ecology -Insect genomics -Global Change Biology -Molecular Physiology (Including Immunity) -Pests and Resistance -Parasites, Parasitoids and Biological Control -Behavioural Ecology -Development and Regulation -Social Insects -Neuroscience -Vectors and Medical and Veterinary Entomology There is also a section that changes every year to reflect hot topics in the field. Section Editors, who are major authorities in their area, are appointed by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasized. Section Editors commission articles from leading scientists on each topic that they have selected and the commissioned authors write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasizing the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year.