History of Entomology
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This article aims to reflect on the descriptions of insects exist in Portuguese colony in the New World. We used as sources treaties, letters and chronicles produced by clerics and colonizers who were in Portuguese America in its first... more
This is book 1 of the second volume of Adolpho Lutz, Obra Completa [Adolpho Lutz, Complete works] edited by Jaime Larry Benchimol and Magali Romero Sá. This editorial initiative comprises volumes I, II and III, with 12 books that contain... more
An experiment conducted during rabi, 2015-16 to evaluate the efficacy of bio-pesticides and indoxacarb against gram pod borer on chickpea from six treatments viz., Indoxacarb, Bacillus thuringiensis, Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus, NSKE,... more
In this essay I sketch the contents and the context of Italian zoologist and entomologist Carlo Emery’s discussion of the germ-plasm theory. August Weismann considered him one of his very few valid supporters, and encouraged him to... more
Relying on a database of 53 French and Swiss naturalists who collected insects in South America and the Caribbean from 1815 to 1914, this study aims to enlighten the role played in the entomological discovery of the Neotropical fauna by... more
True fruit flies belonging to family Tephritidae are serious pests that attack horticultural fruits causing severe economic losses worldwide and in Sudan. This study was carried out to assess the attraction performance of some food bait... more
A 1962 photomicrograph of a mosquito taken in what was then a Tanganyikan mountain laboratory offers a prompt to consider the social salience and affective power of scientific images. Drawing inspiration from anthropological work on... more
Traces the disease from the Plague of Athens through containment with DDT during WWII.
Inspired by recent studies of Romantic botany and geology, this essay explores the intersection of the rise of the modern science of entomology and the insect poetics of the English laboring-class poet John Clare. Besides the formation of... more
While some seventeenth-century scholars promoted natural history as the basis of natural philosophy, they continued to debate how it should be written, about what and by whom. This look into the studios of two Amsterdam physicians, Jan... more
This paper examines the organization of the Regional Entomological Congresses that took place in the 1880s in Odessa and Kharkov following outbreaks of the “kuzka grain beetle” (Anisoplia austriaca). These Congresses represented the first... more
The experiment was carried out at SKRAU, Bikaner (Raj.) in the year 2015-16. According to physical characters the highest per cent infestation of fruit fly on number basis and weight basis was recorded in the 7 th SMW (45.33%) followed by... more
While some seventeenth-century scholars promoted natural history as the basis of natural philosophy, they continued to debate how it should be written, about what and by whom. This look into the studios of two Amsterdam physicians, Jan... more
A brief art history of butterfly illustration with special focus on William Jones in: Iconotypes A compendium of butterflies and moths. Jones’s Icones Complete; published by Thames & Hudson in partnership with the Oxford University... more
Resumen William Morton Wheeler fue un científico estadounidense que llegó a conver-tirse en un experto en hormigas a principios del siglo XX. Esta breve biografía permite decir mucho no solo sobre su persona, sino sobre el contexto en el... more