Early detection of insect pests is critical to successful integrated pest management (IPM) programmes. This collection reviews the wealth of research on improving monitoring techniques for the detection of both native and alien insect pests.

Highlights the relationship between climate change and the emergence of invasive insect crop pests Considers the key challenges facing the identification of crop insect pests and the role of new, emerging technologies in improving the rate of detection (e.g. image-based, DNA barcoding) Reviews the establishment of successful integrated pest management (IPM) programmes to control and/or eradicate the existence of invasive species