Meet the editors

Dr. Dimitrios Kontogiannatos is a collaborative researcher at the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) and the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" (NCSR "Demokritos"), Athens, Greece. In 2013, he received his Ph.D. diploma in Insect Biotechnology and Insect Molecular Biology from the AUA's Department of Biotechnology, specializing in Pest Control Science and Insect Biotechnology. His research mainly focuses on the

use of RNA interference (RNAi) technology in designing insecticidal formulations of low environmental cost. Additionally, he is studying the molecular and physiological impact of various xenobiotics on the developmental processes of terrestrial arthropods. From 2015 to the present he has been collaborating with the AUA's Biotechnology Department as a part-time Assistant Professor. In 2018 he founded and currently runs a Pest Control Company headquartered in Argyroupolis, Attica, Greece, named "PROPEST FHG".

Dr. Anna Kourti is a Professor of Insect Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), School of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Athens, Greece. Her research mainly focuses on insect population genetics and biodiversity, insect molecular physiology, biology and genetics, molecular analysis and expression of environmentally related

insect genes, transcriptomics, and metabolomics of insect diapause, circadian, and photoperiodic clocks. She is the author of many entomological publications in high impact factor peer-reviewed journals. She is a referee of a wide range of international peer-reviewed journals.

Kassio Ferreira Mendes is a Professor of Biology and Integrated Management of Weeds in the Department of Agronomy, Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil. He graduated from the State University of Mato Grosso in 2011 and received a Master's degree in Agronomy (Crop Science) from the Federal University of Viçosa in 2013. He received his post-doctorate degree (2019) and Doctorate degree (2017) in Sciences - Nuclear Energy in Agriculture

(Chemistry in Agriculture and Environment)from the Center of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Campus "Luiz de Queiroz", University of São Paulo, Brazil with fellow University of Minnesota - USA (2016), Twin Cities Campus - College of Food and Agricultural Sciences in the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate and United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA - ARS). Dr. Mendes is a member of the Brazilian Society of Weed Science.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Preface XI**

Insect Science, Pest Management and Practical Approaches **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 43**

**Chapter 5 61**

**Chapter 6 77**

Herbicides: Scientific Background and Food Safety **95**

**Chapter 7 97**

Integrated Pest Management: A Paradigm for Modern Age

Pheromones and Chemical Communication in Insects

of Satoyama Area within Kanazawa City, Japan

*by Fei-Ying Yang, Wei-Yi He and Min-Sheng You*

Mandibular Structure, Gut Contents Analysis and Feeding Group of Orthopteran Species Collected from Different Habitats

*by Wael M. ElSayed, Shahenda Abu ElEla and Koji Nakamura*

Practical Approaches to Pest Control: The Use of Natural Compounds *by Sladjan Stankovic, Miroslav Kostic, Igor Kostic and Slobodan Krnjajic*

Current Advances in Mass Spectrometry Imaging for Insect Physiology

The Role of Irrigation and Nitrogen Fertilization on the Feeding Behavior

*by Ankica Sarajlić, Emilija Raspudić, Zdenko Lončarić, Marko Josipović*

A Review of the Analytical Methods Based on Chromatography for

*by Pasquale Avino, Ivan Notardonato and Mario Vincenzo Russo*

*by Tamanreet Kaur and Mandeep Kaur*

*by Nesreen M. Abd El-Ghany*

and Metabolism

*and Ivana Majić*

**Section 2**

of European Corn Borer

Analyzing Glyphosate in Foods
