Since taking over as Editor-in-Chief of Insect Science and its Application with Volume 16, major changes have been undertaken by the editorial and production teams to improve the journal's quality, presentation, format, timeliness and overall coverage. In Volume 17, these changes are more visible, with the new cover design and layout. In terms of quality, the relevance and originality of the content of the accepted articles is being constantly improved. Inevitably, this has led to increased rejection of papers which no longer meet the new standards. On the editorial side, we have set in place a broadened team of scientific editors and given additional training to existing staff. The process of regionalising the editorial activities in Latin America, Asia and Africa is also progressing and we hope to have the regional offices in place in the not too distant future.