Insecticides, more than herbicides, land use, and climate, are associated with declines in butterfly species richness and abundance in the American Midwest
Most Cited Paper
in Insect and Pesticide Research
18 Months Post-Publication
Class of 2026
“Insecticides, more than herbicides, land use, and climate, are associated with declines in butterfly species richness and abundance in the American Midwest”
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Topics
butterfly species richness · butterfly abundance · insecticides · neonicotinoid-treated seeds · herbicides · Land use change · climate change · Monarch butterfly · Monarch butterfly · US Midwest · Toxicological effects · insect declines · community-wide declines · habitat loss · Neonicotinoid insecticides · butterfly surveys · large-scale study · 81 counties
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Pepkio Research Index (PRI). Topics and Trends in Most Cited Insect and Pesticide Research Papers, Class of 2026. https://pri.pepkio.com/top-papers/insect-and-pesticide-research/2026. Accessed 2026-07-22. Zheng Su, Tinsley Li, Thematic Shifts in Early-High-Impact Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Research: A Bibliometric and Semantic Analysis. bioRxiv 2026.07.04.736459; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.04.736459