The Journal of Economic Entomology is the most-cited entomological journal and publishes articles on the economic significance of insects and other arthropods. The journal is published bimonthly in February, April, June, August, October, and December. In addition to research articles, the Journal of Economic Entomology publishes reviews, forum articles, short communications, and letters to the editor. The journal includes the following sections: 

Apiculture & Social Insects: This section addresses multiple aspects of managed bees (both social and solitary), including but not limited to, pollination, management, pathology and IPM, toxicology, genetics and breeding, and behavior, particularly as they pertain to commercial management practices and application. This section also addresses other social insects of economic importance, such as ants, wasps and termites, that are important to agricultural or natural ecosystems.

Arthropods in Relation to Plant Disease: The transmission of pathogens within plant communities is an important phenomenon that has broad economic, environmental and ecological effects. Within this section, investigations into the specific relationships between each component (the plant, insect, and pathogen) are encouraged, as well as studies at the systems level.

Beneficial Uses of Insects: Insects are mass-cultured for products that they produce (e.g. silk [sericulture], biopharmaceuticals, food or feed (e.g. entomophagy), decomposition of wastes (e.g. bioconversion and bioremediation), and other uses. Submissions describing production, applications and economic or environmental benefits of these and related topics are encouraged.

Biological & Microbial Control: This section includes studies on biological control of pests utilizing predators, parasitoids and microbial agents (e.g. entomopathogenic bacteria, fungi, nematodes, and viruses) in sustainable integrated pest management systems. Submissions typically involve human intervention to enhance these strategies in managed systems but can also include the characterization of economically important natural mechanisms occurring in the landscape. 

Climate Change: Appropriate submissions address effects of climate variability and change on arthropods of economic importance. Topics can include direct effects of climate change on pest and beneficial arthropods, and indirect effects on pest management stemming from disruptions of the ecosystem. Changes in pests and pest management associated with modifications to agroecosystems and surrounding landscape, or other practices made in response to climate change are also considered. The research can be laboratory, field, or modeling-based, as long as the work is placed in the context of historical or projected shifts in climate at the global or regional scale.

Commodity Treatment & Quarantine Entomology: Commodity treatment covers research aimed at controlling arthropod pests that may be in or on a commodity to reduce damage, pest load, or risk of spread of the pest. Quarantine Entomology refers to procedures to mitigate the spread of invasive or quarantined insects that may be associated with a product.

Ecology & Behavior: This section includes applied aspects of dispersal, host finding, orientation to semiochemicals, host and other trophic interactions, phenology, and ecological modeling of economically important arthropods. Submissions must be relevant to pest management or lead to improvements in pest management systems. Applications typically include (but are not limited to) trapping and monitoring, semiochemical control techniques, and predictive models.

Ecotoxicology: Submissions should focus on effects and influences of insecticides or other pesticides or pesticidal materials on target and/or non-target arthropod species including acute toxicity and/or sublethal and behavioural effects, both at the individual and population level, and effects of non-pesticide pollutants on insect species and communities in ecosystems.

Field & Forage Crops: This section includes papers on field and forage-based cropping systems grown across multiple geographic areas and landscapes. It includes studies of basic ecology, management, sampling, and thresholds of associated insect and arthropod pests and beneficial species of economic importance. Ecologically-based, functional-based, and economic-based experimentation is encouraged, while limited surveys, insecticide screening, or first occurrence reports are discouraged without additional experimentation. Studies need to have relevance to species of economic importance and describe how the results are relevant to improving pest management.

Forest Entomology: This section focuses on insects and related organisms that are economically important in forested landscapes. Appropriate submissions include studies relevant to their management, including management-themed studies in population, community, and landscape ecology, life history strategies, ecosystem impacts, interactions with abiotic and biotic disturbances, monitoring, and management strategies of native and non-native arthropod species. 

Horticultural Entomology: Horticulture is the agriculture of plants grown for food and the improvement of the human environment, such as flowers and ornamental plants. This section covers the study of insects and other arthropods of economic significance to horticultural crops, including fruits and nuts, vegetables, trees and shrubs, greenhouse plants, turf and ornamentals.

Household & Structural Insects: This section includes all aspects of the biology and management of insects and other arthropods found in and around dwellings and commercial structures. Submissions may include (but are not limited to) pests of structures and household products as well as those that affect humans and pets.

Insecticide Resistance & Resistance Management: This section focuses on the evolution, ecology, physiology, biochemistry, toxicology, genetics and molecular biology of insecticide resistance for the purpose of resistance management.

Medical & Veterinary Entomology: This section focuses on arthropods that impact man or animals either as nuisance or injurious pests, including as vectors of disease agents. Research exploring economic or social impacts of these pests, their biology that may lead to better management, or that evaluate management programs targeting these pests are particularly suitable. Submissions on their biology as vectors of human pathogens typically are more appropriate for Journal of Medical Entomology.

Molecular Entomology: This section covers genetics, genomics, biochemistry and molecular biology, including but not limited to molecular methods for diagnostics, survey, and detection of invasive species; description of genes or genes families relevant to pest control; gene expression, qPCR, and RNAseq experiments; population genomics describing movement and distribution of pest and invasive species; and gene editing, RNAi and other functional genomic studies. Submissions can include both basic and applied research but must be clearly relevant to arthropods of economic importance and demonstrate how the results are relevant to their management. Simple descriptions of genomic resources are discouraged without additional experimental or comparative genomic aspects included. 

Plant Resistance: Appropriate submissions include studies that identify plants resistant to arthropods, characterize resistance responses, elucidate the underlying mechanisms of resistance, and determine the genetic basis of resistance. This section also includes studies on identification of biotypes and the use of resistant varieties in the integrated management of pest arthropods.

Sampling & Biostatistics: This section focuses on in-depth consideration of sampling and biostatistics relevant to economically important arthropods. Appropriate submissions may include comparisons of sampling plans and methods relative to temporal or spatial distribution, sensitivities of sampling methods across species and environments, and predictive modeling of arthropod populations, demography, and damage forecasting. Evaluation and application of statistical methodologies are welcomed when placed in context of pest management. Reporting of sampling and surveys for management and regulatory purposes are discouraged unless they are nested within an evaluation of efficiencies of sampling and survey methods across time, space, and environments.

Stored-Product: Stored products include all postharvest agricultural products that are durable and thus can be stored without refrigeration for months or years. Appropriate submission may include those on the biology and pest management of pest arthropods found on stored cereal grains and legumes, dried grain products, milled and processed products, dried fruits, nuts, herbs, spices, and various dried animal products such as aged cheeses and dried meats.

Editors-in-Chief
Dr. Mike Brewer
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843
Phone: (361) 265-9201
mjbrewer@ag.tamu.edu
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5556-8304

Dr. Nan-Yao Su 
University of Florida
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314
Phone: (954) 577-6339
nysu@ufl.edu
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0431-5005

Dr. Frank G. Zalom
University of California-Davis
1 Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616-5270
Phone: (530) 867-3394
fgzalom@ucdavis.edu
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6604-1284

Deputy Editor
Lisa G. Neven
USDA-ARS
Yakima Agriculture Research Lab
5230 Konnowac Pass Rd
Wapato, WA 98951-9651
Phone: (509) 454-6556
lisa.neven@ars.usda.gov

Subject Editors
Apiculture and Social Insects
Reed M. Johnson
The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH
johnson.5005@osu.edu

Apiculture and Social Insects
James P. Strange
USDA-ARS-Pollinating Insects Research Unit, Logan, UT
James.Strange@ars.usda.gov

Apiculture and Social Insects
David R. Tarpy
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
david_tarpy@ncsu.edu

Arthropods in Relation to Plant Disease
Blake R. Bextine
University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX
Blake_Bextine@uttyler.edu

Arthropods in Relation to Plant Disease
Silvia Rondon
Oregon State University, Hermiston, OR
silvia.rondon@oregonstate.edu

Biological and Microbial Control
Julio S. Bernal
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
juliobernal@tamu.edu

Biological and Microbial Control
Denny Bruck
DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA
denny.bruck@gmail.com

Biological and Microbial Control
Surendra Dara
University of California Cooperative Extension, San Luis Obispo, CA
skdara@ucdavis.edu
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-7206

Biological and Microbial Control
Eric W. Riddick
USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS
eric.riddick@ars.usda.gov
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4795-961X

Biological and Microbial Control
Eric Wajnberg
INRA, Sophia Antipolis, France
eric.wajnberg@inra.fr
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6700-7114

Commodity Treatment and Quarantine
Dong H. Cha
USDA-ARS, Hilo, HI
dong.cha@ars.usda.gov
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3980-9707

Commodity Treatment and Quarantine Entomology
Lisa Neven
USDA-ARS, Yakima Agricultural Research, Wapato, WA
neven@yarl.ars.usda.gov

Ecology and Behavior 
Charles S. Burks
USDA-ARS, Parlier, CA
Charles.Burks@ars.usda.gov
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0242-8644

Ecology and Behavior
Michael Furlong
University of Queensland, Australia
m.furlong@uq.edu.au

Ecology and Behavior
Yulin Gao
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
gaoyulin@caas.cn

Ecology and Behavior
Tong-Xian Liu
Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
txliu@nwafu.edu.cn

Ecology and Behavior
Nikolaos Papadopoulos
University of Thessaly, N. Ionia, Greece
nikopap@uth.gr

Ecology and Behavior
Arash Rashed
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
arashed@uidaho.edu

Ecotoxicology
Murray B. Isman
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
murray.isman@ubc.ca
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3285-1315

Ecotoxicology
John D. Stark
Washington State University, Puyallup, WA
starkj@wsu.edu

Field and Forage Crops
Kristopher L. Giles
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
kris.giles@okstate.edu

Field and Forage Crops
Fred Musser
Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
fm61@msstate.edu

Field and Forage Crops
Dominic Reisig
North Carolina State University, Plymouth, NC
ddreisig@ncsu.edu
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9979-5813

Field and Forage Crops
Allan T. Showler
USDA-ARS, Kerrville, TX
allan.showler@ars.usda.gov

Forest Entomology
Kamal Gandhi
Warnell School Of Forestry/Natural Resources, Athens, GA
kgandhi@warnell.uga.edu

Forest Entomology
Timothy D. Schowalter
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
tschowalter@agcenter.lsu.edu
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4405-6220

Forest Entomology
Brian T. Sullivan
USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Pineville, LA
briansullivan@fs.fed.us

Forest Entomology
Kimberly Wallin
University of Vermont, VT
kwallin@uvm.edu 
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6849-6351

Horticultural Entomology
Raymond A. Cloyd
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
rcloyd@ksu.edu

Horticultural Entomology
Jana Lee
USDA-ARS, Corvallis, OR
jana.lee@ars.usda.gov

Horticultural Entomology
Joseph E. Munyaneza
USDA-ARS, Yakima Agricultural Research, Wapato, WA
joseph.munyaneza@ars.usda.gov

Horticultural Entomology
Anne Nielsen
Rutgers University, Bridgeton, NJ
nielsen@aesop.rutgers.edu

Horticultural Entomology
Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Rutgers University, Chatsworth, NJ
crodriguez@aesop.rutgers.edu
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5888-1769

Household and Structural Insects
Arthur G. Appel
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
appelag@auburn.edu
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6858-1900

Household and Structural Insects
Mary L. Cornelius
USDA ARS SRRC, Beltsville, MD
mary.cornelius@ars.usda.gov

Household and Structural Insects
Michael K. Rust
University of California-Riverside
michael.rust@ucr.edu

Insecticide Resistance and Resistance Management
Troy Anderson
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
tanderson44@unl.edu
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9403-2833

Insecticide Resistance & Resistance Management
Lisa Bird
NSW Department of Primary Industries, Tamworth Agricultural Institute, Australia
lisa.bird@dpi.nsw.gov.au

Insecticide Resistance and Resistance Management
Aaron J. Gassmann
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
aaronjg@iastate.edu

Insecticide Resistance and Resistance Management
Raul N. C. Guedes
Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Vicosa, MG, Brazil
mguedes@ufv.br

Insecticide Resistance and Resistance Management
Kun Yan Zhu
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
kzhu@oznet.ksu.edu
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9372-8030

Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Alec C. Gerry
University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8494-3588

Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Kimberly H. Lohmeyer
USDA-ARS, Kerrville, TX
kim.lohmeyer@ars.usda.gov
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5656-8568

Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Jeb P. Owen
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
jowen@wsu.edu

Molecular Entomology
Scott M. Geib
USDA-ARS-PBARC, Hilo, HI
scott.geib@ars.usda.gov
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9511-5139

Molecular Entomology
Raul F. Medina
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
rfmedina@tamu.edu
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8697-8901

Molecular Entomology
Brian Rector
USDA-ARS-GBRRU, Reno, NV
brian.rector@ars.usda.gov

Molecular Entomology
Erin D. Scully
USDA-ARS-CGAHR, Manhattan, KS
erin.scully@ars.usda.gov

Molecular Entomology
Kent S. Shelby
USDA-ARS-BCIRL, Columbia, MO
kent.shelby@ars.usda.gov

Molecular Entomology
Cecilia Tamborindeguy
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
ctamborindeguy@tamu.edu 
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0933-5785

Molecular Entomology
Adam Chun Nin Wong
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
adamcnwong@ufl.edu
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9360-429X

Plant Resistance
Louis Hesler
USDA-ARS-NCARL, Brookings, SD
louis.hesler@ars.usda.gov

Plant Resistance
Frank B. Peairs
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Frank.Peairs@colostate.edu
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6591-7958

Stored Products
James Campbell
USDA-ARS-CGAHR, Manhattan, KS
james.campbell@ars.usda.gov

Stored Products
Rizana Mahroof
South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC
rmahroof@scsu.edu

Stored Products
Thomas W. Phillips
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
twp1@ksu.edu

Associate Editors
Troy D. Anderson
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
anderst@vt.edu

Peter Follett
USDA-ARS, Hilo, HI
peter.follett@ars.usda.gov

Guy Hallman
USDA-ARS, Manhattan, KS
Guy.Hallman@ars.usda.gov

Neelendra Joshi
University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Fayetteville, AR
nkjoshi@uark.edu

William Moar
Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield, MO
william.moar@monsanto.com

Editorial Board
Xuguo Zhou
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Physiology, Biochemistry, and Toxicology

Cheryle A. O'Donnell, Chair
USDA-PPQ-NIS, Tuscon, AZ
Systematics, Evolution & Biodiversity

Jarrad R. Prasifka
USDA-ARS-NCSL, Fargo, ND
Plant-Insect Ecosystems 

Steven R. Skoda
USDA-ARS Scrwworm Research Unit, Kerrville, TX
Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology

Dr. Andy P. Michel
Ohio State University, Wooster, OH
Molecular Ecology and Evolution
michel.70@osu.edu

Director of Publications and Communications
Lisa Junker
Entomological Society of America
3 Park Place, Suite 307
Annapolis, MD 21401-3722
Phone: 301-731-4535, ext. 3020
Fax: 301-731-4538
ljunker@entsoc.org