Geoffrey Hinton

My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in the mid-'50s that it came back. Someone had thought of it 30 or 40 years earlier named Alfred Wegener, and he never got to see it come back.

British Psychologist

Jean Craighead George

I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.

American Writer

Jeff Vandermeer

My dad is an entomologist and research chemist. That's why he was in Fiji, studying the rhinoceros beetle invasive species.

Entomologists are specialized scientists, not to be confused with general biologists or ecologists.

Specialized Profession

Entomologists study all insects, which include bees, beetles, butterflies, and many more varieties.

Insect Diversity

The term is often used in academic and research contexts, rather than in everyday conversation.

Academic Field

 And I went up there for a meeting, and I showed them some of the images that I'd been shooting, and they could see the kind of detail I was able to get. I don't think they'd ever really seen anything quite like it before, and from that point forward, they gave me open access to their entire collection and the assistance of Dr. James Hogan, their entomologist.

Mind-blowing, magnified...

 museum were excited to see these pictures I don't think they've seen anything quite like them before certainly not at this scale and not in this amount of detail now when I saw an entomologist excited about these images and they see a lot of pictures of insects you know anyways onto a good thing

Beauty Through the...

 provide a nutritional boost to young larvae that feed on leaf rich but sodium poor diets she also notes that some researchers hypothesized blood feeding evolved from animal related behaviors such as feeding on tears dung and pus filled wounds entomologist Chris nice

Vampire Moths Discovered...

 The world map for where mosquitoes are is missing. So we started thinking about this. There are 3,500 species of mosquitoes, and they're all very similar. Some of them are so identical that even an entomologist cannot identify them under a microscope.

Lifesaving scientific...

 years and also these horrendous things happening to frogs around the world as many species are declining in numbers I've looked for all kinds of things over time it's not fair to be an entomologist and being you know impressed by size but still I did

Army Ants, Orchids and...

 It's also a step towards taking responsibility for my own burden on the planet. Growing a mushroom is also part of a larger practice of cultivating decomposing organisms called decompiculture, a concept that was developed by an entomologist,

Jae Rhim Lee: My...

 yes I am an entomologist and I know a lot of you think that's strange but I hope I'll convince you by the end of the 15 minutes I'm allotted that insects are actually the creatures that do run the world and that are truly truly wonderful

People, Plants and...

 their fragile world has been invaded by an alien species from Africa the result of a scientific experiment gone horribly wrong one man entomologist David Rubik believes he's imported African bees are

Killer Bees! PIPE National...

 I know, insects, it's really weird, but bear with me. Now, I am an entomologist. I confess to that. And, when I look at the planet, the reason I'm an entomologist

Entomologist

Specialized Profession

Insect Diversity

Academic Field

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