Agricultural Entomology

a pioneer in the field of economic entomology

Unlike other agricultural sciences like entomology or plant pathology, the emergence of weed science is comparatively recent, occurring largely within the 20th century and coinciding with the development of herbicides.

Hans Rudolf Herren (born November 30, 1947) is a Swiss American entomologist, farmer and development specialist.

Ray Fred Smith was an American agronomist and entomologist whose research focused on biological methods of arthropod pest management.

Based on her studies in agriculture, she became one of the first to define the field of agricultural entomology.

Edward Fred Knipling (March 20, 1909, March 17, 2000) was an American entomologist, who along with his longtime colleague Raymond C. Bushland, received the 1992 World Food Prize for their collaborative achievements in developing the sterile insect technique for eradicating or suppressing the threat posed by pests to the livestock and crops that contribute to the world's food supply.

Raymond C. Bushland (October 5, 1910, January 29, 1995) was an American entomologist.

Karl Maramorosch (January 16, 1915, May 9, 2016) was an Austrian-born American virologist, entomologist, and plant pathologist.

John Edward Casida (December 22, 1929, June 30, 2018) was an American entomologist, toxicologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Carl Barton Huffaker (September 30, 1914 in Monticello, Kentucky, October 10, 1995 in Lafayette, California) was an American biologist, ecologist and agricultural entomologist. Huffaker graduated from the University of Tennessee (1938 B.S., 1939 M.S.) then gaining a PhD from Ohio State University in 1942.