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The discipline of medical entomology, or public health entomology, and also veterinary entomology is focused upon insects and arthropods that impact human health. Veterinary entomology is included in this category, because many animal diseases can "jump species" and become a human health threat, for example, bovine encephalitis.
Plate from Henry Walter Bates's 1862 paper Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley: Heliconiidae. Entomology, the scientific study of insects and closely related terrestrial arthropods, has been impelled by the necessity of societies to protect themselves from insect-borne diseases, crop losses to pest insects, and insect-related discomfort, as well as by people's natural curiosity.
Mark Catesby publishes part one of The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. 1734 Scientist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur publishes the first Mémoires pour Servir à L’Histoire des Insectes in English, "Memoirs Serving as a Natural History of Insects". This is a founding work of entomology, and one of the most ...
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The awarding committee made special mention of the work of Giovanni Battista Grassi on the life history of the Plasmodium parasite. Charles W. Woodworth A List of the Insects of California published. Philogene Auguste Galilee Wytsman started Genera Insectorum , a multi-authored series that consisted of 219 issues, the last occurring in 1970.
Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (entomon) 'insect' and -λογία () 'study') [1] is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.In the past the term insect was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans.
In 1824 he married Catherine Holbrook, a daughter of his medical partner. Thaddeus and Catherine had 12 children. [3] Harris became interested in entomology while still a student at Harvard where he attended the natural history lectures of William D. Peck. After graduation he spent much of his spare time studying insects.
William Kirby and William Spence (entomologist), Introduction to entomology or elements of the natural history of insects. 4 vols. London, Longman 2430pp. This masterwork commenced in 1815 and was completed in 1826. It is an outstanding achievement: an entomology and a system of higher units in which Kirby was much influenced by MacLeay.