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Congratulations to the EE and JEE Award Winners!

The editors-in-chief and editorial boards of Environmental Entomology (EE) and the Journal of Economic Entomology (JEE), along with the Entomological Society of America and Oxford University Press, congratulate the winners and runners-up of the 2024 EE and JEE joint journal awards.

All articles listed below are freely available to read and download for a limited time.

2024 EE and JEE Awards

Environmental Entomology – People’s Choice

The papers nominated for the People’s Choice Award are among the most cited, shared, and downloaded. They are selected by the editors-in-chief and voted on by ESA members.

Winner:

Osmia taurus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): A non-native bee species with invasiveness potential in North America
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvad005
Grace M. Gutierrez, Kathryn A. LeCroy, T’ai H. Roulston, David J. Biddinger, and Margarita M. López-Uribe

Runner-up:

Specialist herbivore performance on introduced plants during native host decline
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvac107
Grace M. Horne, Rea Manderino, and Samuel P. Jaffe

Environmental Entomology – Reviewer’s Choice

The papers nominated for the Reviewers’ Choice Award are selected by the subject editors for each subject section of Environmental Entomology, narrowed down by the editors-in-chief, and then voted on by the journals’ reviewers from the prior year.

Winner:

The aphid Myzus persicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae) acquires chloroplast DNA during feeding on host plants
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvad086
Dawson Byrd, Mona Tran, Jaimie R. Kenney, Erin E. Wilson-Rankin , Kerry E. Mauck

Runner-up:

Attraction of Myzus persicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae) to volatiles emitted from the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvac100
Ruchika Geedi, Luis Canas, Michael E. Reding, and Christopher M. Ranger

Journal of Economic Entomology – Editors’ Choice

Nominations for the JEE Editor’s Choice Award are based on citation data, and then voted on by the JEE subject editors.

Winner:

Can Native Plants Mitigate Climate-related Forage Dearth for Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)?
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toab202
Ge Zhang, Ashley L. St. Clair, Adam G. Dolezal, Amy L. Toth, and Matthew E. O’Neal

Runner-up:

Chemical Control and Insecticide Resistance in Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toac108
Johnnie Van den Berg and Hannalene du Plessis

Journal of Economic Entomology – Reader’s Choice

Nominations for the JEE Reader’s Choice Award are based on Altmetric scores and download data. The JEE Editorial Board then votes to select the winners.

Winner:

Global Patterns of Insect Resistance to Transgenic Bt Crops: The First 25 Years
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toac183
Bruce E. Tabashnik, Jeffrey A. Fabrick, and Yves Carrière

Runner-up:

Weak evidence base for bee protective pesticide mitigation measures
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toad118
Edward A. Straw and Dara A. Stanley

2023 EE and JEE Awards

Environmental Entomology – Reviewer’s Choice

Winner:

Survivorship and development of the invasive Lycorma delicatula (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) on wild and cultivated temperate host plants
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvab137
Laura J. Nixon, Sharon K. Jones, Lisa Tang, Julie Urban, Karen Felton, Tracy C Leskey

Runner-up:

Heads or tails? Dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae & Aphodiinae) attraction to carrion
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvab012
Rachel L. Stone, Emmy L. Engasser, Mary Liz Jameson

Runner-up:

Olfactory cues from host- and non-host plant odor influence the behavioral responses of adult Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) to visual cues
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvab004
L. Grant Bolton, Jaime C Piñero, Bruce A Barrett

Environmental Entomology – People’s Choice

Winner:

Native flowering border crops attract high pollinator abundance and diversity, providing growers the opportunity to enhance pollination services
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvac013
Jessica Butters, Ebony Murrell, Brian J. Spiesman, Tania N. Kim

Runner-Up:

Systematic mapping and review of landscape fire smoke (LFS) exposure impacts on insects
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvac069
Yanan Liu, Robert A. Francis, Martin J. Wooster, Mark J. Grosvenor, Su Yan, Gareth Roberts

Runner-Up:

Scale insects support natural enemies in both landscape trees and shrubs below them
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvac081
Caleb J. Wilson and Steven D Frank

Journal of Economic Entomology – Editors’ Choice

Winner:

The Use of Multiple Unmanned Aircraft Systems as a Swarm to Release Sterile Mexican Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Into South Texas Citrus Groves
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toab024
Nathan Moses-Gonzales, Hugh Conway, Dustin Krompetz, Roberto Rodriguez, Christopher G. Adams, Ignacio Baez, Michael Milam

Runner-Up:

Benefits and Risks of Intercropping for Crop Resilience and Pest Management
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toac045
Christiana P. Huss, Katherine D. Holmes, Carmen K. Blubaugh

Journal of Economic Entomology – Reader’s Choice

Winner:

A Coordinated Sampling and Identification Methodology for Larval Parasitoids of Spotted-Wing Drosophila
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toab237
Paul K. Abram, Xingeng Wang, Tracy Hueppelsheuser, Michelle T. Franklin, Kent M. Daane, Jana C. Lee, Chia-Hua Lue, Pierre Girod, Juli Carrillo, Warren H.L. Wong, Robert R. Kula, Michael W. Gates, Brian N. Hogg, Chandra E. Moffat, Kim A. Hoelmer, Ashfaq A. Sial, Matthew L. Buffington

Runner-Up:

Potential management options for the invasive moth Spodoptera frugiperda in Europe
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toac089
Dirk Babendreier, Stefan Toepfer, Melanie Bateman, Marc Kenis

2022 EE and JEE Awards

Environmental Entomology – People’s Choice

Winner:

Do Viruses From Managed Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Endanger Wild Bees in Native Prairies?
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvaa181
Zoe A. Pritchard, Harmen P. Hendriksma, Ashley L. St. Clair, David S. Stein, Adam G. Dolezal, Matthew E. O’Neal, and Amy L. Toth

Runner-up:

Bumblebees Exposed to a Neonicotinoid Pesticide Make Suboptimal Foraging Decisions
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvab087
Harry Siviter, Anthony K. Johnson, and Felicity Muth

Environmental Entomology – Reviewer’s Choice

Winner:

Noncrop Habitat Use by Wild Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in a Mixed-Use Agricultural Landscape
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvaa001
Brianne Du Clos, Francis A. Drummond, and Cynthia S. Loftin

Runner-up:

Oviposition Response of Monarch Butterfly (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) to Imidacloprid-Treated Milkweed
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvab024
Alexander N. Mullins, Steven P. Bradbury, Thomas W. Sappington, and James S. Adelman

Journal of Economic Entomology – Editors’ Choice

Winner:

Wild Bee Visitation Rates Exceed Pollination Thresholds in Commercial Cucurbita Agroecosystems
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toz295
Carley M. McGrady, Rachael Troyer, Shelby J. Fleischer

Runner-up:

Mobility and dispersal of two cosmopolitan stored product insects are adversely affected by long-lasting insecticide netting in a life stage-dependent manner
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toaa094
Rachel V Wilkins, Kun Yan Zhu, James F. Campbell, William R Morrison, III

Journal of Economic Entomology – Editors’ Choice

Winner:

Thermal impacts of apicultural practice and products on the honey bee colony
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toab023
Daniel Cook, Alethea Blackler, James McGree, Caroline Hauxwell

Winner:

Drosophila suzukii (Diptera:Drosophilidae): A decade of research towards a sustainable integrated pest management program
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toab158
Gabriella Tait, Serhan Mermer, Dara Stockton, Jana Lee, Sabina Avosani, Antoine Abrieux, Gianfranco Anfora, Elizabeth Beers, Antonio Biondi, Hannah Burrack, Dong Cha, Joanna C. Chiu, Man-Yeon Choi, Kevin Cloonan, Cristina M. Crava, Kent M. Daane, Daniel T. Dalton, Lauren Diepenbrock, Phillip Fanning, Fatemeh Ganjisaffar, Miguel I. Gómez, Larry Gut, Alberto Grassi, Kelly Hamby, Kim A Hoelmer, Claudio Ioriatti, Rufus Isaacs, Jimmy Klick, Laura Kraft, Gregory Loeb, Marco Valerio Rossi-Stacconi, Rachele Nieri, Ferdinand Pfab, Simone Puppato, Dalila Rendon, Justin Renkema, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, Mary Rogers, Fabiana Sassù, Torsten Schöneberg, Maxwell J. Scott, Michael Seagraves, Ashfaq Sial, Steven Van Timmeren, Anna Wallingford, Xingeng Wang, D. Adeline Yeh, Frank G. Zalom, Vaughn M. Walton

2021 EE and JEE Awards

Environmental Entomology – People’s Choice

Winner:

The Impact of Prescribed Burning on Native Bee Communities (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in Longleaf Pine Savannas in the North Carolina Sandhills
Heather Moylett, Elsa Youngsteadt, Clyde Sorenson

Runner-up:

Bombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Microcolonies as a Tool for Biological Understanding and Pesticide Risk Assessment
Ellen G Klinger, Allison A Camp, James P Strange, Diana Cox-Foster, David M Lehmann

Second runner-up:

Estimating Monitoring Trap Plume Reach and Trapping Area for Nymphal and Adult Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in Crop and Non-crop Habitats
Danielle M Kirkpatrick, Angelita L Acebes-Doria, Kevin B Rice, Brent D Short, Christopher G Adams, Larry J Gut, Tracy C Leskey

Environmental Entomology – Reviewers’ Choice

Winner:

Herbivorous Caterpillars Can Utilize Three Mechanisms to Alter Green Leaf Volatile Emission
Anne C Jones, Irmgard Seidl-Adams, Jurgen Engelberth, Charles T Hunter, Hans Alborn, James H Tumlinson

Runner-up:

More Than Meets the Eye? The Role of Annual Ornamental Flowers in Supporting Pollinators
E Erickson, S Adam, L Russo, V Wojcik, H M Patch, C M Grozinger

Second runner-up:

Host and Non-host ‘Whistle Stops’ for Psyllids: Molecular Gut Content Analysis by High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals Landscape-Level Movements of Psylloidea (Hemiptera)
W Rodney Cooper, David R Horton, Mark R Wildung, Andrew S Jensen, Jenita Thinakaran, Dalila Rendon, Louis B Nottingham, Elizabeth H Beers, Carrie H Wohleb, David G Hall, Lukasz L Stelinski

Journal of Economic Entomology – Editors’ Choice

Winner:

Drones: Innovative Technology for Use in Precision Pest Management
Fernando H Iost Filho, Wieke B Heldens, Zhaodan Kong, Elvira S de Lange

Runner-up:

Global Patterns of Resistance to Bt Crops Highlighting Pink Bollworm in the United States, China, and India
Bruce E Tabashnik, Yves Carrière

Journal of Economic Entomology – Readers’ Choice

Winner:

The Establishment Risk of Lycorma delicatula (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) in the United States and Globally
Tewodros T Wakie, Lisa G Neven, Wee L Yee, Zhaozhi Lu

Runner-up:

The Economics of Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Management and Overwintering Strategies for Colonies Used to Pollinate Almonds
Gloria Degrandi-Hoffman, Henry Graham, Fabiana Ahumada, Matthew Smart, Nick Ziolkowski

The award winners were determined as follows: 

Environmental Entomology – People’s Choice: Papers published in 2019 and 2020 were nominated by the editors-in-chief based on citation, Altmetric scores, and average downloads per month. The winners were determined based on a vote by EE authors and ESA members.

Environmental Entomology – Reviewers’ Choice: Subject editors for the journal nominated papers published in 2019 and 2020 for the award, and the editors-in-chief selected finalists based on broad topic representation and section. The winners were determined based on a vote by EE reviewers.

Journal of Economic Entomology – Editors’ Choice: A selection of papers published in 2019 and 2020 were nominated by the editors-in-chief based on citation, readership, and Altmetric scores, as well as a broad representation of topic areas within JEE’s scope. The winners were determined based on a vote by JEE subject editors.

Journal of Economic Entomology – People’ Choice: The winners were selected by the JEE editors-in-chief based on Altmetric scores, readership/downloads, and a desire to spotlight different content areas covered by JEE.

To be eligible for next year’s awards, submit your paper to Environmental Entomology or the Journal of Economic Entomology today!

P.S. The award winners will be presenting their work at Entomology 2021, ESA’s Annual Meeting and Virtual Meeting. Learn more about the meeting.

 

2020 EE and JEE Awards

Environmental Entomology - People's Choice

Winner

Disturbance Mediates Homogenization of Above and Belowground Invertebrate Communities
By Karl A Roeder, Diane V Roeder, Michael Kaspari
Environmental Entomology, Volume 47, Issue 3, June 2018, Pages 545–550

Runner-Up

Bacterial Endosymbionts Are Common Among, but not Necessarily Within, Insect Species
By Eric J Sazama, Scot P Ouellette, Jeff S Wesner
Environmental Entomology, Volume 48, Issue 1, February 2019, Pages 127–133

Second Runner-Up

Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Community Response to Livestock Grazing: Implications for Avian Conservation
By Hayes B Goosey, Joseph T Smith, Kevin M O’Neill, David E Naugle
Environmental Entomology, Volume 48, Issue 4, August 2019, Pages 856–866

Environmental Entomology - Reviewers' Choice

Winner

Floral Resource Competition Between Honey Bees and Wild Bees: Is There Clear Evidence and Can We Guide Management and Conservation?
By Victoria A Wojcik, Lora A Morandin, Laurie Davies Adams, Kelly E Rourke
Environmental Entomology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2018, Pages 822–833

Runner-Up

Habitat Type Influences Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Oviposition and Egg Survival on Asclepias syriaca (Gentianales: Apocynaceae)
By Andrew Myers, Christie A Bahlai, Douglas A Landis
Environmental Entomology, Volume 48, Issue 3, June 2019, Pages 675–684

Second Runner-Up

Effect of Corolla Slitting and Nectar Robbery by the Eastern Carpenter Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) on Fruit Quality of Vaccinium corymbosum L. (Ericales: Ericaceae)
By Sara K Tucker, Howard S Ginsberg, Steven R Alm
Environmental Entomology, Volume 48, Issue 3, June 2019, Pages 718–726

Journal of Economic Entomology - Editors' Choice

Winner

Colony Size, Rather Than Geographic Origin of Stocks, Predicts Overwintering Success in Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Northeastern United States
By Mehmet Ali Döke, Carley M McGrady, Mark Otieno, Christina M Grozinger, Maryann Frazier
Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 112, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 525–533

Runner-Up

Origin of Pest Lineages of the Colorado Potato Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
By Victor M Izzo, Yolanda H Chen, Sean D Schoville, Cong Wang, David J Hawthorne
Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 111, Issue 2, April 2018, Pages 868–878

Journal of Economic Entomology - Readers' Choice

Winner

Residents Attitudes and Home Sanitation Predict Presence of German Cockroaches (Blattodea: Ectobiidae) in Apartments for Low-Income Senior Residents
By Changlu Wang, Evan Bischoff, Amanda L Eiden, Chen Zha, Richard Cooper, Judith M Graber
Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 112, Issue 1, February 2019, Pages 284–289

Runner-Up

Ecology and Economics of Using Native Managed Bees for Almond Pollination
By Insu Koh, Eric V Lonsdorf, Derek R Artz, Theresa L Pitts-Singer, Taylor H Ricketts
Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 111, Issue 1, February 2018, Pages 16–25

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