“…Most of these viruses belong to the viral families Dicistroviridae, Iflaviridae, Picornaviri-Correspondence: Taiyun Wei, State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Vector-borne Virus Research Center, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China. Email: weitaiyun@fafu.edu.cn dae, Virgaviridae, Chuviridae, Rhabdoviridae, Reoviridae, and Bunyavirales (formerly Bunyaviridae) (Nouri et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2019aWang et al, , 2019bKhine et al, 2020). In general, vertical transmission from parents to offspring is a crucial mechanism for the persistence of insect viruses in nature (Patterson et al, 2020;Wan et al, 2023).…”