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.

Insects (from Latin insectum) are invertebrates of the class Insecta.

Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods) of two large orders, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically grouped together in the subclass Acari.

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.

In 1901 Barrett went to Puerto Rico as a US Department of Agriculture entomologist and botanist and afterwards worked with the department's Office of Seed and Plant Introduction.

Gene Ezia Robinson (born January 9, 1955) is an American entomologist, Director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and National Academy of Sciences member.

Christina Grozinger is an American entomologist, the Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology at Pennsylvania State University and the director at its Center for Pollinator Research.

He served as a Senior Lecturer in Entomology, at the Crop Science Department of the then Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Ghana, from 1989 to 2000.

Roelofs (born July 26, 1938) was the first researcher to characterize insect sex pheromone structures, developing microchemical techniques for the isolation and identification of pheromone components.

John Anthony Pickett (born 21 April 1945) is a British chemist who is noted for his work on insect pheromones.

Perry L. Adkisson (11 March 1929-25 June 2020) was Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System. His academic work is known for his research on integrated pest management methods which allowed for a 50% reduction of insecticide use in U.S. agriculture