Integrated Pest Management—from Chemicals to Green Management

Dear Colleagues,

Insect pests inflict significant damage to agricultural products intended for human consumption and animal feed worldwide. They have made remarkable biological and evolutionary adaptations to withstand different stress conditions. Chemical insecticides have been widely used for controlling insect pests and are still considered a major option in integrated pest management programs. However, indiscriminate chemical applications have promoted serious problems, such as resistance development, hormetic effects, non-target effects, environmental pollution, etc. Although novel insecticides with good efficiency against insect pests are still available, their continuous application may cause the same problems. Therefore, we believe that improving the overall and in-depth knowledge about chemical insecticide applications and green management options might be crucial to tackling these challenges.

This Special Issue, entitled "Integrated Pest Management—from Chemicals to Green Management", is open to all researchers, as we are aiming to collate articles that promote in-depth knowledge on specific subject areas. We welcome all types of submissions, including original research articles, reviews, mini reviews, perspectives, methodologies, and opinion articles, that present research covering (but not limited to) the following topics:

1. Recent advances in integrated pest management.
2. Insecticide resistance development and associated fitness costs in insect pests.
3. The underlying resistance mechanisms of commonly used insecticides.
4. Insecticide-induced sublethal or hormetic effects on insect pests.
5. The transgenerational sublethal effects of insecticides and insights from biological and molecular perspectives.
6. Advances in nanodelivery systems for pesticides to increase toxicity and selectivity for controlling insect pests.
7. Genetic pest management.
8. Recent advances in the nanocarrier-mediated RNAi of lethal genes to control insect pests.
9. Non-target effects of chemical insecticides affecting the biological control services.

Dr. Farman Ullah
Dr. Xiaowei Li
Prof. Dr. Yaobin Lü
Guest Editors

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• integrated pest management
• the development of insecticide resistance
• resistance mechanisms
• ecotoxicology
• sublethal or hormetic effects
• molecular toxicology
• transgenerational sublethal effects
• genetic pest management
• non-target effects of insecticides
• biological control
• RNAi-mediated insect pest control
• green management