American entomologists

Richard Charles Froeschner (1916–2002) was an American entomologist.

Dr. Richard Mitchell Bohart (September 28, 1913 – February 1, 2007) was an American entomologist, university professor, and a member of the University of California, Davis Department of Entomology for more than 50 years.

Walter R. Tschinkel is an internationally renowned myrmecologist, entomologist and Distinguished Research Professor of Biological Science and R.

George O. Poinar Jr.

Robert Leslie Usinger (October 24, 1912, Fort Bragg, California – October 1, 1968, San Francisco) was an American entomologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Davis.

Charles F. Harbison (1904-1989) was an American entomologist and the curator of entomology at the San Diego Natural History Museum from 1942 to 1969.

Florence Eugenie Bemis (1861?–?) was a late 19th and early 20th century American entomologist and expert in whiteflies.

William Dandridge Peck (May 8, 1763 Boston – October 8, 1822 Cambridge, MA) was a botanist, and America ’s first native entomologist.

Lynn Kimsey is an entomologist, taxonomist, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis since 1989.

Michael C. Thomas (born 1948) is an American entomologist who is co-author of the book series American Beetles.

Murray S. Blum is an American research entomologist and a noted authority in the field of chemical ecology.

Justin Orvel Schmidt (born 1947) is an American entomologist, co-author of Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators, author of The Sting of the Wild, and creator of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.

James 'Jim' F. Dill is an American politician and professor from Maine.

Dr. Glavis Bernard "G.

Axel Leonard Melander (3 June 1878 Chicago – 8 August 1962) was an American entomologist specialising in Diptera and Hymenoptera.

John Merton Aldrich (January 28, 1866 – May 27, 1934) was an American zoologist and entomologist.

Carl Barton Huffaker (September 30, 1914, Monticello, Kentucky – October 10, 1995, Lafayette, California) was an American biologist, ecologist and agricultural entomologist.

James Behrens (born in Lübeck, Germany, 30 June 1824; died in San José, California, 6 March 1898), was an entomologist.

Charles Robertson was born to parents Dr.

Mary Talbot (November 30, 1903 – April 16, 1990) was an American entomologist and zoologist known for her studies of the ecology and behavior of ants.

Gordon Floyd Ferris (January 2, 1893 in Bayard, Kansas – May 21, 1958) was an American entomologist.

Gordon Gordh (born 1945) is an American entomologist.

Grace Adelbert Sandhouse (June 1, 1896 – November 9, 1940) was an American entomologist.

The Reverend Frederick Valentine Melsheimer (September 25, 1749, Negenborn, Brunswick – June 30, 1814, Hanover, Pennsylvania) was a Lutheran clergyman and early American entomologist, called the "Father of American Entomology" by successor Thomas Say.

Elwood Curtin Zimmerman (born in Spokane, Washington on December 8, 1912; died in Tura Beach, New South Wales on June 18, 2004) was an American entomologist best known for his two multivolume series: Insects of Hawaii published by the University of Hawaiʻi Press and Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) published by Australia's CSIRO.

William Hampton Patton (March 10, 1853 – December 26, 1918) was an American entomologist.

Eugene Amandus Schwarz (April 21, 1844 - October 15, 1928) was a German-American entomologist who specialized in the study of beetles (Coleoptera).

Marla Spivak (born 1955) is an American entomologist, and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota.

Melbourne Armstrong Carriker (February 14, 1879 – July 27, 1965) was an American ornithologist and entomologist.

Mary Isabel McCracken (1866 – 29 October 1955) was an American entomologist, researcher and teacher.

Sievert Allen Rohwer (22 December 1887, Telluride – 12 February 1951) was an American entomologist who specialized in Hymenoptera.

Alice E. Gray (June 7, 1914 – April 27, 1994) was an American entomologist and origamist who was known as the "Bug Lady" of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

William M Mann (1886–1960) was a notable entomologist and the fifth director of the National Zoo in Washington, D.

William Jacob Holland (August 16, 1848 – December 13, 1932) was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (1891–1901) and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

Margaret James Strickland Collins (1922 - April 27, 1996) was an African-American zoologist, specializing in the study of termites.

Karen Suzanne Oberhauser (born c. 1956) is an American conservation biologist with a specific interest in monarch butterflies.

Wilmatte Porter Cockerell (1869 - January 1, 1957) was an American botanist, entomologist and teacher notable for the numerous species of fauna and flora she discovered and collected.

Nellie M. Payne (December 11, 1900 – July 19, 1990) was an American entomologist and agricultural chemist.

Lois Kathryn Miller (October 8, 1945 – November 9, 1999) was an American geneticist and academic.

Margaretta Hare Morris (3 December 1797 - 29 May 1867) was an American entomologist.

Ralph Vary Chamberlin (January 3, 1879 – October 31, 1967) was an American biologist, ethnographer, and historian from Salt Lake City, Utah.

Curtis Williams Sabrosky (3 April 1910, Sturgis, Michigan – 5 October 1997) was an American entomologist.

Frederick Ernst Melsheimer, M.

Frederick McMahon Gaige (3 July 1890, Ann Arbor – 20 October 1976, Keystone Heights) was an American entomologist and herpetologist.

Leland Ossian Howard, Ph.

Oscar Ling Cartwright (1900-1983) was an American entomologist who specialized in scarab beetles.

Stuart W. Frost (1891 - 1980) was a professor of entomology at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

Charles Henry Fernald (March 15, 1838 – February 22, 1921) was an American entomologist, geologist, and zoologist, who is credited as the first college professor of economic entomology.

Edward F. Knipling (March 20, 1909 – March 17, 2000) was an American entomologist who, along with his longtime colleague Raymond C.

Alexander Barrett Klots (December 12, 1903, New York City – April 18, 1989, Putnam, Connecticut) was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Howard Madison Parshley (7 August 1884, Hallowell, Maine – 19 May 1953) was an American zoologist, a specialist on the Heteroptera who also wrote more broadly on genetics, reproduction and human sexuality.

Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon (July 29, 1852-January 15, 1938) was an American entomologist, educator, historian, author, and museum curator.

August LeRoy Strand (February 12, 1894 – April 27, 1980) was an American entomologist who served as President of Montana State University from 1937 to 1942, and as President of Oregon State University from 1942 to 1961.

Philip James DeVries PhD (born March 7, 1952) is a tropical biologist whose research focuses on insect ecology and evolution, especially butterflies.

William E. Bickley is an American entomologist.

William Henry Anderson (November 21, 1908 – November 13, 1997) was an American entomologist.

William Beebe (/ˈbiːbi/ born Charles William Beebe; July 29, 1877 – June 4, 1962) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author.

Vasco Myron Tanner (October 29, 1892 – April 25, 1989) was an American entomologist from Utah, and professor of zoology at Brigham Young University.

Hazel Elizabeth Branch (1886–1973) was an American entomologist.

Herman Spieth (21 August 1905 – 20 October 1988) was an American zoologist and university administrator.

May Roberta Berenbaum (born 1953) is an American entomologist whose research focuses on the chemical interactions between herbivorous insects and their host-plants, and the implications of these interactions on the organization of natural communities and the evolution of species.

Henry Ulke (January 29, 1821 – February 17, 1910) was an American photographer and portrait painter.

Samuel Stehman Haldeman (August 12, 1812 – September 10, 1880) was a United States naturalist and philologist.

Randy Thornhill (born 1944) is an American entomologist and evolutionary biologist.

Charles Thomas Brues (June 20, 1879, Wheeling – July 22, 1955, Crescent City, Florida) was an American entomologist.

Clarence Preston Gillette (7 April 1859, Maple Corners, Ionia County, Michigan–4 January 1941, Fort Collins, Colorado) was an American entomologist.

George Duryea Hulst (9 March 1846 – 5 November 1900) was an American clergyman, botanist and entomologist.

George Marx (June 22, 1838 - January 3, 1895) was a German-born American arachnologist, scientific illustrator and physician.

Harrison Gray Dyar Jr.

She is a member both of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Charles Willison Johnson (26 October 1863 – 19 July 1932) was an American naturalist who specialized in entomology (especially Diptera) and malacology, making significant contributions in both fields.

Darrell Addison Posey (March 14, 1947 – March 6, 2001) was an American anthropologist and biologist who vitalized the study of traditional knowledge of indigenous and folk populations in Brazil and other countries.

Edward Luther Kessel (April 27, 1904 – September 30, 1997) was an American biologist known for his work as an entomologist and writings to reconcile science and religion.

Hahn William Capps (born 1903) is an American entomologist.

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Jay Traver, an entomologist, published a paper in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington called "Unusual Scalp Dermatitis in Humans Caused by the Mite, Dermatophagoides (Acarina, epidermoptidae).