(Editor's Note: The paper is now online.)

The widespread “pest-proliferation hypothesis” that climate warming will result in unprecedented agricultural pest populations and lead to monumental food insecurity worldwide is oversimplified, a nine-member team of entomologists and ecologists led by UC Davis entomologist Mia Lippey declared today.  

It’s not often that your first doctoral published research makes the cover of an academic journal and focuses on an insect that most people have never heard of--and will probably never see--except in insect museums like the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis.