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First part of An introduction to the modern classification of insects. ( 1839–1840) published. John Forbes Royle Illustrations of the Botany and Other Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere published. This work resembles 18th century works in its sumptuous illustration.
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.
The U.S. National Insect Collection is the second largest insect collection in the world, [citation needed] with approximately 35 million specimens representing over 300,000 species. The collection includes over 100,000 holotypes and many additional paratypes and secondary types
1800–1700 BC, Minoan jewellery, Malia, Crete: two golden bees over a honey comb 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.
The Beadle/Leckie book covers a smaller geographical area and (one author claims) covers moths in greater detail. [5] The old Covell book has been out-of-print for many years, but is currently available through the Virginia Museum of Natural History (which purchased the rights to that book). [5] [6]
Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae (The Etymologies, c. 600 –625) quotes from Pliny 45 times in Book XII alone; [94] Books XII, XIII and XIV are all based largely on the Natural History. [ 95 ] [ 96 ] Through Isidore, Vincent of Beauvais 's Speculum Maius ( The Great Mirror , c. 1235–1264) also used Pliny as a source for his own work.
(Insects are one of the most diverse groups of organisms on Earth. They play important roles in ecosystems, including pollination, natural enemies, saprophytes, and biological information transfer.) One of the major works to be published in the area of zoology was Conrad Gessner 's Historia animalium , which was published in numerous editions ...