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  1. Reproductive performance effects of rearing the quasi-social parasitoid, Sclerodermus brevicornis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), on a factitious host

    Article • Journal of Insect Science, September 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  2. Insect Biodiversity in a Prealpine Suburban Hilly Area in Italy

    Article • Insects, August 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  3. A scientific note on pollinators’ ability to overcome exploitation barriers: deep hummingbird-evolved corollas and small-sized bees

    Article • Apidologie, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  4. Exploring the range expansion of the yellow‐spotted longhorn beetle Psacothea hilaris hilaris in northern Italy

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Entomology, April 2023, Wiley

    Dr Luciano Bani, Prof Daniela Lupi

  5. Influence of Flowering Characteristics, Local Environment, and Daily Temperature on the Visits Paid by Apis mellifera to the Exotic Crop Phacelia tanacetifolia

    Article • Sustainability, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  6. Low toxicity crop fungicide (fenbuconazole) impacts reproductive male quality signals leading to a reduction of mating success in a wild solitary bee

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, April 2022, Wiley

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  7. How many cooperators are too many? Foundress number, reproduction and sex ratio in a quasi‐social parasitoid

    Article • Ecological Entomology, March 2022, Wiley

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  8. Psacothea hilaris (longicorn beetle, yellow spotted)

    Article • CABI Compendium, January 2022, CABI Publishing

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  9. Thermal Shift Assay as a Tool to Evaluate the Release of Breakdown Peptides from Cowpea β-Vignin during Seed Germination

    Article • Molecules, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  10. Combined Effects of Pesticides and Electromagnetic-Fields on Honeybees: Multi-Stress Exposure

    Article • Insects, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  11. Mechanical Processing of Hermetia illucens Larvae and Bombyx mori Pupae Produces Oils with Antimicrobial Activity

    Article • Animals, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof. Daniele Naviglio, Prof Daniela Lupi

  12. Survival rate and changes in foraging performances of solitary bees exposed to a novel insecticide

    Article • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, March 2021, Elsevier

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  13. Impact of Agro-industrial Byproducts on Bioconversion, Chemical Composition, in vitro Digestibility, and Microbiota of the Black Soldier Fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) Larvae

    Article • Journal of Insect Science, January 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  14. Tools to Tie: Flower Characteristics, VOC Emission Profile, and Glandular Trichomes of Two Mexican Salvia Species to Attract Bees

    Article • Plants, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  15. Factors Affecting the Reproduction and Mass-Rearing of Sclerodermus brevicornis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), a Natural Enemy of Exotic Flat-Faced Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)

    Article • Insects, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  16. Performance of Sclerodermus brevicornis, a parasitoid of invasive longhorn beetles, when reared on rice moth larvae

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, July 2020, Wiley

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  17. Environmental Display Can Buffer the Effect of Pesticides on Solitary Bees

    Article • Insects, July 2020, MDPI AG

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  18. Kinship effects in quasi-social parasitoids I: co-foundress number and relatedness affect suppression of dangerous hosts

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, June 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  19. Kinship effects in quasi-social parasitoids II: co-foundress relatedness and host dangerousness interactively affect host exploitation

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, June 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  20. Co‐foundress confinement elicits kinship effects in a naturally sub‐social parasitoid

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, May 2020, Wiley

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  21. A botanic garden as a tool to combine public perception of nature and life-science investigations on native/exotic plants interactions with local pollinators

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2020, PLOS

    MANUELA GIOVANETTI, Prof Daniela Lupi

  22. Effects of Pesticides and Electromagnetic Fields on Honeybees: A Field Study Using Biomarkers

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  23. Growing black soldier fly on waste from farming crickets and grasshoppers

    Article • Sustainability, January 2020, MDPI AG

    Douglas Moore, Prof Daniela Lupi

  24. Rearing of Hermetia Illucens on Different Organic By-Products: Influence on Growth, Waste Reduction, and Environmental Impact

    Article • Animals, May 2019, MDPI AG

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  25. Can exotic drosophilids share the same niche of the invasive Drosophila suzukii?

    Article • Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, March 2019, PAGEPress Publications

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  26. ACCIDENTAL INTRODUCTION IN ITALY OF THE PARASITOID SPATHIUS VULNIFICUS WILKINSON (HYMENOPTERA BRACONIDAE DORYCTINAE)

    Article • Redia, December 2018, CREA - DC

    Prof Daniela Lupi, Mattia Calzolari

  27. Salvia verticillata: Linking glandular trichomes, volatiles and pollinators

    Article • Phytochemistry, November 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  28. Host location and dispersal ability of the cosmopolitan parasitoid Trichopria drosophilae released to control the invasive spotted wing Drosophila

    Article • Biological Control, February 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  29. Do Torymus sinensis (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) and agroforestry system affect native parasitoids associated with the Asian chestnut gall wasp?

    Article • Biological Control, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Umberto Bernardo, Dr. Carmelo Peter Bonsignore, Prof Daniela Lupi

  30. Assessment of Vegetable and Fruit Substrates as Potential Rearing Media for Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) Larvae

    Article • Environmental Entomology, October 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  31. First evidence of Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera Heteroptera, Pentatomidae) feeding on rice (Oryza sativa L.)

    Article • Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, April 2017, PAGEPress Publications

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  32. Reproductive biology of Sclerodermus brevicornis, a European parasitoid developing on three species of invasive longhorn beetles

    Article • Biological Control, February 2017, Elsevier

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  33. Sage at the botanic garden: essential oils and VOC emission related to micromorphological characterization

    Article • Planta Medica, December 2016, Thieme Publishing Group

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  34. Drosophila parasitoids in northern Italy and their potential to attack the exotic pest Drosophila suzukii

    Article • Journal of Pest Science, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  35. Incursions of exotic pests into European rice areas — detection and management

    Article • January 2016, Entomological Society of America

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  36. Current status of the rice water weevil Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus in Italy: eleven-year invasion

    Article • EPPO Bulletin, March 2015, Wiley

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  37. First record of Rhoptrocentrus piceus Marshall (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) as parasitoid of Psacothea hilaris hilaris (Pascoe) (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)

    Article • ZooKeys, February 2015, Pensoft Publishers

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  38. Distribution and biology of the yellow-spotted longicorn beetlePsacothea hilaris hilaris(Pascoe) in Italy

    Article • EPPO Bulletin, July 2013, Wiley

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  39. Benthic macroinvertebrates in Italian rice fields

    Article • Journal of Limnology, February 2013, PAGEPress Publications

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  40. Characterization of the Bacterial Community Associated with Larvae and Adults ofAnoplophora chinensisCollected in Italy by Culture and Culture-Independent Methods

    Article • BioMed Research International, January 2013, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  41. Japonica cultivars' susceptibility to the rice water weevilLissorhoptrus oryzophilus(Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Brachyceridae)

    Article • Journal of Applied Entomology, July 2012, Wiley

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  42. Exotic Insects in Italy: An Overview on Their Environmental Impact

    Article • September 2011, IntechOpen

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  43. On the spatial spread of the Rice Water Weevil, Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus Kuschel (Coleoptera: Erirhinidae), in Italy

    Article • Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, July 2010, PAGEPress Publications

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  44. Changes of pectic composition of ‘Annurca’ apple fruit after storage

    Article • Food Chemistry, December 2005, Elsevier

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  45. A 3 year field survey of the natural enemies of the horse-chestnut leaf miner Cameraria ohridella in Lombardy, Italy

    Article • BioControl, February 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  46. EVOLUTION OF VOLATILE COMPOSITION OF WHOLE APPLE FRUIT CV 'GALA' AFTER STORAGE

    Article • Acta Horticulturae, March 2003, International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)

    Prof Daniela Lupi

  47. Partial removal of water before freezing: cultivar and pre-treatments as quality factors of frozen muskmelon (Cucumis melo, cv reticulatus Naud.)

    Article • Journal of Food Engineering, August 2001, Elsevier

    Prof Daniela Lupi