Natural Products to Control Insect Pests

Dear colleagues,

Growing public concern about the safety and the environmental impact of conventional insecticides, coupled with enhanced governmental regulations of such compounds, has resulted in the need to find safer alternatives. Biopesticides, which include naturally occurring substances like biochemical or microbial insecticides, but also plant-incorporated protectants, may provide such an alternative. This Special Issue of Insects will focus on biorational insecticides that are used for arthropod management. Potential manuscripts could include a review/perspective and research articles focusing on the current state of natural products and other biorational insecticides, the discovery and mode of action of natural compounds, natural compound mixtures, and behavioral modification of natural products and related materials.

Dr. Aaron D. Gross
Prof. Joel R. Coats
Dr. Edmund Norris
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Insects is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.