Publications

Selected References Associated to the Suction Traps:

Suszkiw, Jan. 2020. Bug Vacuum Captures Unidentified Flying Insects—and Valuable Data. https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2020/bug-vacuum-captures-unidentified-flying-insects-and-valuable-data/

Quinn, L. 2020. Aerial insect trap network describes life in the skies.  https://aces.illinois.edu/news/aerial-insect-trap-network-describes-life-skies

Hester, J. L. 2020. To study pesky aphids, scientists suck them from the sky.  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/studying-insect-pests-with-vacuum-towers

 

References Associated to the Suction Traps:

Lagos-Kutz D, NJ Seiter. 2025. Regional Monitoring of Insects using the USA Midwest Suction Trap Network. In 2024 Applied Research Results Field Crop Disease and Insect Management. Illinois Extension University of Illinois, 8-12. Available at 
 

Lagos-Kutz D., N. Seitter, K. Tilmon, J. McMechan, G. Hartman, S. Clough, B. Molano-Flores and M. Crossley. 2025. Monitoring eastern flower thrips and soybean thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and the generalist predator, insidious flower bug (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) in the American Midwest. Environmental Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvaf102 

Lagos-Kutz, D., Pecinovsky, K. T., Schnabel, M. L., Weaver, A., VanNostrand, G. R. & Hodgson, E. W., (2025) “Monitoring Insects in Iowa through the USA Midwest Suction Trap Network”, Iowa State University Research and Demonstration Farms Progress Reports 2024(3), 38-42. https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/farmreports/article/id/20307/

Lagos-Kutz, D.M., Plasencia, I., Dietrich, C.H., LaForest, J., McCornack, B., Hodgson, E., Villanueva, R., Seiter, N.J., Clough, S.J. 2025. First Report of Corn Leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in the USA Midwest Suction Trap Network. Insecta Mundi 1110: 1-10. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/1618/

Lagos-Kutz, D.M., Clark, R.B., Seiter, N., Clough, S.J., Hartman, G.L., Crossley, M. 2024. Tracking flight activity of potato leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with the Midwest Suction Trap Network. Environmental Entomology. 53(3):433-441. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvae023.

Thekke-Veetil, T., Lagos-Kutz, D.M., Domier, L.L., McCoppin, N.K., Hartman, G.L., Clough, S.J. 2024. Exploring virus diversity in the potato leafhopper (Empoasca fabae), an economically important agricultural pest. Viruses. 16. Article 1305. https://doi.org/10.3390/v16081305.

Villanueva, R.T., Bradley, C., Viloria, Z., Lagos-Kutz, D., Clough, S.J. 2023. Potential of Insidious Flower Bug to Reduce Corn Earworm damage in Field Corn. In, Corn Science Research Report, Pages 21-25 (50 Pages). https://graincrops.ca.uky.edu/sites/graincrops.ca.uky.edu/files/2023CornResearchReportsUKY.pdf

Lagos-Kutz, D.M., Troutman, R., Hartman, G.L. 2022. New records of invasive aphids (Hemiptera:Aphididae) on garlic mustard in the USA. Insecta Mundi. 945:1-5. 

Crossley, M.S., Lagos-Kutz, D.M., Davis, T.S., Eigenbrode, S.D., Hartman, G.L., Voegtlin, D.J., Snyder, W.E. 2022. Precipitation change accentuates or reverses temperature effects on aphid dispersal. Ecological Applications. Volume 32, Issue 5, Article e2593. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2593  

Lagos-Kutz, D.M., DiFonzo, C., Hartman, G.L. 2021. New records of aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on industrial hemp in the US Midwest. Great Lakes Entomologist. 54:2, Article 9. https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol54/iss2/9

Crossley, M.S., Smith, O.M., Davis, T.S., Eigenbrode, S.D., Hartman, G.L., Lagos-Kutz, D.M., Halbert, S.E., Voegtlin, D.J., Moran, M.D., Snyder, W.E. 2021. Complex life histories predispose aphids to recent abundance declines. Global Change Biology. 27(18):4283-4293. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15739.

Thekke-Veetil, T., Lagos-Kutz, D.M., McCoppin, N.K., Hartman, G.L., Ju, H., Lim, H., Domier, L.L. 2020. Soybean thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) harbor highly diverse populations of arthropod, fungal and plant viruses. Viruses. 12:1376. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12121376.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/v12121376

Crossley, M.S., Meier, A.R., Baldwin, E.M., Berry, L.L., Crenshaw, L.C., Hartman, G.L., Lagos-Kutz, D.M., Nichols, D.H., Patel, K., Varriano, S., Snyder, W.E., Moran, M.D. 2020. No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US long term ecological research sites. Nature Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1269-4

Lagos-Kutz, D., D. J. Voegtlin, D. Onstad, D. Hogg, D. Ragsdale, K. Tilmon, E. Hodgson, C. DiFonzo, R. Groves, C. Krupke, J. LaForest, N. J. Seiter, E. Duerr, B. Bradford, and G. L. Hartman. 2020. The soybean aphid suction trap network: Sampling the aerobiological “Soup”. American Entomologist 66, 48-55. https://doi.org/10.1093/ae/tmaa009

Yasmin, T., Thekke-Veetil, T., Hobbs, H.A., Nelson, B.D., McCoppin, N.K., Lagos-Kutz, D.M., Hartman, G.L., Lambert, K.N., Walker, D.R., Domier, L.L. 2019. Aphis glycines virus 1, a new bicistronic virus with two functional internal ribosome entry sites, is related to a group of unclassified viruses in the Picornavirales. Journal of General Virology. https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001355.

Lagos-Kutz, D.M., Potter, B., DiFonzo, C., Russell, H., Hartman, G.L. 2018. Two aphid species, Phorodon cannabis and Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominale, identified as potential pests on industrial hemp, Cannabis sativa L., in the US Midwest. Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management. 4:180032. https://doi.org/10.2134/cftm2018.04.0032.

Muturi, J., Lagos-Kutz, D., Dunlap, C.,  Ramirez, J.L., Rooney, A.P., Hartman, G.L., Fields, C. J., Rendon, G., Kim, C.-H.. 2018. Mosquito microbiota cluster by host sampling location. Parasites & Vectors, 11:468. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-3036-9

Lagos-Kutz, D., D. Voegtlin, J. Davis, and G. Hartman. 2018. Dispersal records of the sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner) (Hemiptera: Aphididae), through the Midwest Suction Trap Network. The Florida Entomologist, 101 (3).  

Keough S., J. Danielson J, J. M. Marshall, D. Lagos-Kutz, D. J. Voegtlin, R. Srinivasan, and P. Nachappa. 2018. Factors affecting population dynamics of thrips vectors of soybean vein necrosis virus. Environmental Entomology. https://academic.oup.com/ee/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ee/nvy021/4915817

Crossley, M. S., and D. B. Hogg. 2015. Potential overwintering locations of soybean aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) colonizing soybean in Ohio and Wisconsin. Environmental Entomology, 44: 210-222. 

Lagos-Kutz, D., and D. Voegtlin. 2015. Midwest Suction Trap Network. Iowa State Research Farm Progress Reports. 2203. http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/farms_reports/2203.

Bahlai C. A., A. W. Schaafsma, D. M. Lagos, D. J. Voegtlin, J. L. Smith, J. A. Welsman, Y. Xue, C. DiFonzo, and R. H. Hallett. 2014. Factors inducing migratory forms of soybean aphid and an examination of North American spatial dynamics of this species in the context of migratory behavior. Agriculture and Forest Entomology, 16, 240-250. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/afe.12051

Schmidt N. P., M. E. O’Neal, P. F. Anderson, D. M. Lagos, D. J. Voegtlin, W. Bailey, P. C. Caragea, E. M. Cullen, C. D. Difonzo, K. Elliott, C. Gratton, D. Johnson, C. Krupke, B. P. McCornack, R. O’Neil, D. W. Ragsdale, K. J. Tilmon, and J. Witworth. 2012. Spatial Distribution of Aphis glycines (Hemiptera: Aphididae): A summary of the suction trap network. Journal of Economic Entomology, 105 (1), 259-271. https://academic.oup.com/jee/article/105/1/259/847330