Insects flight activity, but also mating and oviposition can be modulated by prior exposures to atmospheric pressure variation.  This was already documented in Choristoneura (Miller and Mc Dougall 1973) and in the 1990's by Jeremy Mac Neil (Annual review Entomology), Roitberg et al. (Nature 1993). Several other publications (moths and parasitoids) addressed such effects (see also Barton Browne 1993 Ann Review Entomology). We found such effects in Lobesia botrana (Hurtrell & Thiéry, JIB, 1999) : atm. pressure drops increases flying or oviposition activities. 

Does any research currently focus on such effects, or is there further evidence for that ?

 Denis Thiéry