Entomology - wikipedia Entomology This is the current revision of this page, as edited by Crystallizedcarbon ( talk contribs ) at 17 : 44, 15 August 2017 ( Reverted edits by 24.234. 132.214 ( talk ) ( HG ) ( 3.1. 22 ) ). The present address ( URL ) is a permanent link to this version. Revision as of 17 : 44, 15 August 2017 by Crystallizedcarbon ( talk contribs ) ( Reverted edits by 24.234. 132.214 ( talk ) ( HG ) ( 3.1. 22 ) ) ( diff ) ← Previous revision Latest revision ( diff ) Newer revision → ( diff ) Not to be confused with Etymology, the study of the history of words. A phasmid, mimicking a leaf Entomology ( from Greek ἔντομον, entomon `` insect '' ; and - λογία, - logia ) is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term `` insect '' was more vague, and historically the definition of entomology included the study of terrestrial animals in other arthropod groups or other phyla, such as arachnids, myriapods, earthworms, land snails, and slugs. This wider meaning may still be encountered in informal use. Like several of the other fields that are categorized within zoology, entomology is a taxon - based category ; any form of scientific study in which there is a focus on insect - related inquiries is, by definition, entomology. Entomology therefore overlaps with a cross-section of topics as diverse as molecular genetics, behavior, biomechanics, biochemistry, systematics, physiology, developmental biology, ecology, morphology, and paleontology. At some 1.3 million described species, insects account for more than two - thirds of all known organisms, date back some 400 million years, and have many kinds of interactions with humans and other forms of life on earth. Contents 1 History 2 In pest control 3 Taxonomic specialization 4 Organizations 5 Museums 5.1 Asia 5.2 Africa 5.3 Europe 5.4 United States 5.5 Canada 6 Depiction in media 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links History Plate from Transactions of the Entomological Society, 1848 See also : Timeline of entomology Entomology is rooted in nearly all human cultures from prehistoric times, primarily in the context of agriculture ( especially biological control and beekeeping ), but scientific study began only as recently as the 16th century. William Kirby is widely considered as the father of Entomology. In collaboration with William Spence, he published a definitive entomological encyclopedia, Introduction to Entomology, regarded as the subject 's foundational text. He also helped to found the Royal Entomological Society in London in 1833, one of the earliest such societies in the world ; earlier antecedents, such as the Aurelian society date back to the 1740s. Entomology developed rapidly in the 19th and 20th centuries, and was studied by large numbers of people, including such notable figures as Charles Darwin, Jean - Henri Fabre, Vladimir Nabokov, Karl von Frisch ( winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ), and two - time Pulitzer Prize winner E.O. Wilson. There has also been a history of people becoming entomologists through museum curation and research assistance, such as Sophie Lutterlough at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Insect identification is an increasingly common hobby, with butterflies and dragonflies being the most popular. These 100 Trigonopterus species were described simultaneously using DNA barcoding Most insects can easily be recognized to order such as Hymenoptera ( bees, wasps, and ants ) or Coleoptera ( beetles ). However, insects other than Lepidoptera ( butterflies and moths ) are typically identifiable to genus or species only through the use of Identification keys and Monographs. Because the class Insecta contains a very large number of species ( over 330,000 species of beetles alone ) and the characteristics separating them are unfamiliar, and often subtle ( or invisible without a microscope ), this is often very difficult even for a specialist. This has led to the development of automated species identification systems targeted on insects, for example, Daisy, ABIS, SPIDA and Draw - wing. In pest control In 1994 the Entomological Society of America launched a new professional certification program for the pest control industry called The Associate Certified Entomologist ( ACE ). To qualify as a `` true entomologist '' an individual would normally require an advanced degree, with most entomologists pursuing their PhD. While not true entomologists in the traditional sense, individuals who attain the ACE certification may be referred to as ACEs, Amateur entomologists, Associate entomologist Taxonomic specialization Part of a large beetle collection Many entomologists specialize in a single order or even a family of insects, and a number of these subspecialties are given their own informal names, typically ( but not always ) derived from the scientific name of the group : Coleopterology - beetles Dipterology - flies Odonatology - dragonflies and damselflies Hemipterology - true bugs Isopterology - termites Lepidopterology - moths and butterflies Melittology ( or Apiology ) - bees Myrmecology - ants Orthopterology - grasshoppers, crickets, etc. Trichopterology - caddis flies Vespology - Social wasps Organizations Like other scientific specialties, entomologists have a number of local, national, and international organizations. There are also many organizations specializing in specific subareas. Amateur Entomologists ' Society Deutsches Entomologisches Institut Entomological Society of America Entomological Society of Canada Entomological Society of Japan International Union for the Study of Social Insects Netherlands Entomological Society Royal Belgian Entomological Society Royal Entomological Society of London Société entomologique de France Museums Here is a list of selected museums which contain very large insect collections. Asia Zoological survey of India Pakistan Museum of Natural History Garden Avenue, Shakarparian, Islamabad, Pakistan Africa Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Europe Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany Natural History Museum, Budapest Hungarian Natural History Museum Natural History Museum, Geneva Natural History Museum, Leiden, the Netherlands Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom Natural History Museum, Oslo Norway Natural History Museum, St. Petersburg Zoological Collection of the Russian Academy of Science Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford Royal Museum for Central Africa, Brussels, Belgium Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology Zoologische Staatssammlung München World Museum Liverpool, the Bug House United States Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia American Museum of Natural History, New York City Auburn University Museum of Natural History, Auburn, Alabama Audubon Insectarium, New Orleans Bohart Museum of Entomology, Davis, California California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh Essig Museum, Berkeley, California Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois J. Gordon Edwards Museum, San Jose, California Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. New Mexico State University Arthropod Museum North Carolina State University Insect Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Connecticut The National Museum of Play, Rochester, N.Y. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas University of Minnesota, St. Paul campus ( UMSP ), Minnesota University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence, Kansas University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska University of Missouri Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Canada Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa, Ontario E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Lyman Entomological Museum, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Sainte - Anne - de-Bellevue, Quebec Montreal Insectarium, Montreal, Quebec Newfoundland Insectarium, Reidville, Newfoundland and Labrador Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, Alberta Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto University of Guelph Insect Collection, Guelph, Ontario Victoria Bug Zoo, Victoria, British Columbia Depiction in media Entomology has been depicted in various films such as : Arachnophobia, Mimic, and The Silence of the Lambs See also Wikimedia Commons has media related to Insect collecting devices. Arachnology Cultural entomology Ethnoentomology Forensic entomology Forensic entomologist Forensic entomology and the law Insect thermoregulation Insects on stamps List of entomologists List of entomological journals Myriapodology Timeline of entomology -- 1800 -- 1850 Timeline of entomology -- 1850 -- 1900 Timeline of entomology since 1900 References Jump up ^ Liddell, Henry George and Robert Scott ( 1980 ). A Greek - English Lexicon ( Abridged Edition ). United Kingdom : Oxford University Press. ISBN 0 - 19 - 910207 - 4. Jump up ^ Chapman, A.D. ( 2009 ). Numbers of living species in Australia and the World ( 2 ed. ). Canberra : Australian Biological Resources Study. pp. 60pp. ISBN 978 - 0 - 642 - 56850 - 2. Jump up ^ Antonio Saltini, Storia delle scienze agrarie, 4 vols, Bologna 1984 - 89, ISBN 88 - 206 - 2412 - 5, ISBN 88 - 206 - 2413 - 3, ISBN 88 - 206 - 2414 - 1, ISBN 88 - 206 - 2415 - X Jump up ^ Clark, John F.M. ( 2009 ). Bugs and the Victorians. Yale University Press. pp. 26 -- 27. ISBN 0300150911. Jump up ^ `` Karl von Frisch - Nobel Lecture : Decoding the Language of the Bee ''. Jump up ^ Starrs, Siobhan ( 10 August 2010 ). `` A Scientist and a Tinkerer -- A Story in a Frame ''. National Museum of Natural History Unearthed. National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 19 March 2017. Jump up ^ `` KwaZulu - Natal Museum ''. Jump up ^ `` Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum ''. Jump up ^ Archived July 26, 2003, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ `` Home ''. Jump up ^ `` O.U.M.N.H. Homepage ''. Jump up ^ `` Auburn University Museum of Natural History ''. Jump up ^ `` Collections ''. Jump up ^ NMSU Entomology Plant Pathology ; Weed science. `` New Mexico State University Arthropod Museum ''. Retrieved 2013 - 07 - 15. Jump up ^ `` Enns Entomology Museum, MU ''. Jump up ^ `` Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes - Homepage ''. Jump up ^ `` E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum - Department of Biological Sciences, Studies in Life Sciences ''. Jump up ^ `` Lyman Entomological Museum ''. Jump up ^ `` University of Guelph Insect Collection ''. uoguelph.ca. Retrieved 20 April 2015. Jump up ^ `` The Victoria Bug Zoo TM ''. Jump up ^ `` INSECT scenes : Silence of the Lambs ( entomology ! ! ) ''. YouTube. Further reading Chiang, H.C. and G.C. Jahn 1996. Entomology in the Cambodia - IRRI - Australia Project. ( in Chinese ) Chinese Entomol. Soc. Newsltr. ( Taiwan ) 3 : 9 - 11. Davidson, E. 2006. Big Fleas Have Little Fleas : How Discoveries of Invertebrate Diseases Are Advancing Modern Science University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 208 pages, ISBN 0 - 8165 - 2544 - 7. Triplehorn, Charles A. and Norman F. Johnson ( 2005 - 05 - 19 ). Borror and DeLong 's Introduction to the Study of Insects, 7th edition, Thomas Brooks / Cole. ISBN 0 - 03 - 096835 - 6. -- a classic textbook in North America. Grimaldi, D. & Engel, M.S. ( 2005 ). Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0 - 521 - 82149 - 5. CS1 maint : Multiple names : authors list ( link ) Capinera, JL ( editor ). 2008. Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2nd Edition. Springer. ISBN 1 - 4020 - 6242 - 7. External links Look up entomology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. `` I suppose you are an entomologist ? '' What does a entomologist study ? `` Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name. No man can be truly called an entomologist, sir ; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp. '' Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table This article 's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia 's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. ( April 2015 ) Professor Andrew Speilman. `` Malaria video ''. Retrieved 2006 - 12 - 09. Rob Hutchinson. `` Mosquitoes video ''. Retrieved 2006 - 12 - 09. University of Vermont. `` Entomology Laboratory ''. Retrieved 2006 - 12 - 09. Iowa State University. `` Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources ''. Retrieved 2011 - 07 - 23. Meganeura, University of Barcelona. `` Fossil Insects ''. Archived from the original on 2006 - 11 - 14. Retrieved 2006 - 12 - 09. `` Goliathus ( Entomology hobbyist site ) ''. Archived from the original on 2006 - 12 - 06. Retrieved 2006 - 12 - 09. `` Medical Entomology images ''. Archived from the original on 2007 - 02 - 07. Retrieved 2006 - 12 - 09. University of Nebraska State Museum. `` Division of Entomology ''. Retrieved 2006 - 12 - 09. Graeme Cocks. `` Insects of Townsville, Australia ''. Retrieved 2006 - 12 - 09. Actronic. `` Compendium of References on Flies and Disease ''. Archived from the original on 2006 - 10 - 15. Retrieved 2006 - 12 - 09. USDA Collecting methods. Detailed instructions Arthropa Extensive photo album sorted by topic ( French language ). Virtual Insect Museum Extensive Catalogue of Butterfly Photos and Insect Data Best of the Bugs Entomology Web sites selected by entomologists G.D. Hale Carpenter, A Naturalist on Lake Victoria, with an Account of Sleeping Sickness and the Tse - tse Fly ; 1920. T.F. Unwin Ltd, London ; Biodiversity Archive. Tereshkin Scientific illustration in entomology Tereshkin, A. 2008 : Methodology of a scientific drawings preparation in entomology on example of ichneumon flies ( Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae ). Euroasian Entomological Journal, 7 ( 1 ) : 1 - 9 + I - VII Alex Wild Photography ( insect photography ) This website was highlighted by Genetic Engineering & Biotechnolgy News in its `` Best of the Web '' section in January 2015. See : `` Alex Wild Photography ''. Best of the Web. Genetic Engineering & Biotechnolgy News. 35 ( 2 ). 15 January 2015. p. 38. Insect orders Kingdom : Animalia Phylum : Arthropoda ( unranked ) : Pancrustacea Subphylum : Hexapoda Extant Monocondylia Archaeognatha ( jumping bristletails ) D i c o n d y l i a Apterygota * Thysanura ( Zygentoma ) ( silverfish, firebrats ) P r y g o a Palaeoptera Ephemeropteroidea Ephemeroptera ( mayflies ) Odonatoptera Odonata ( dragonflies, damselflies ) N o p r a Polyneoptera Plecoptera ( stoneflies ) Dermaptera ( earwigs ) Embioptera ( webspinners ) Phasmatodea ( stick and leaf insects ) Notoptera ( ice - crawlers, gladiators ) Orthoptera ( crickets, wetas, grasshoppers, locusts ) Zoraptera ( angel insects ) Dictyoptera Blattodea ( cockroaches, termites ) Mantodea ( mantises ) E u m a b o l a Paraneoptera * Psocodea ( barklice, lice ) Thysanoptera ( thrips ) Hemiptera ( cicadas, aphids, true bugs ) E n d o p r y g o a basal Hymenoptera ( sawflies, wasps, ants, bees ) Neuropteroidea Coleopterida Strepsiptera ( twisted - winged parasites ) Coleoptera ( beetles ) Neuropterida Raphidioptera ( snakeflies ) Megaloptera ( alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies ) Neuroptera ( net - winged insects : lacewings, mantidflies, antlions ) Panorpida ( Mecopterida ) Antliophora Mecoptera ( scorpionflies ) + Siphonaptera ( fleas ) Diptera ( gnats, mosquitoes, flies ) Amphiesmenoptera Trichoptera ( caddisflies ) Lepidoptera ( moths, butterflies ) Four most speciose orders are marked in bold Italic are paraphyletic groups Based on Sasaki et al. ( 2013 ) Extinct Aethiocarenodea Alienoptera Archodonata Blattoptera Caloneurodea Campylopteridae Carbotriplurida Coxoplectoptera Diaphanopterodea Eoblattodea Eudiaphanoptera Geroptera Glosselytrodea Heraridea Hypoperlida Lapeyriidae Meganisoptera Megasecoptera Miomoptera Monura Palaeodictyoptera Paoliida Permoplecoptera Protanisoptera Protelytroptera Protephemerida Protodiptera Protorthoptera Protozygoptera Syntonoptera Titanoptera Triadophlebioptera Extinct incertae sedis families and genera are marked in italic Wikispecies Entomology Branches of Entomology Coleopterology Dipterology Ethnoentomology Heteropterology Hemipterology Lepidopterology Melittology Myrmecology Neuropterology Odonatology Orthopterology Trichopterology Vespology Entomology Organisations Africa The Egyptian Entomological Society Entomological Society of Southern Africa Americas Entomological Society of America Entomological Society of Canada Kansas Entomological Society Entomological Society of Brasil Asia Entomological Society of China Entomological Society of Japan Indian Society for the Advancement of Insect Science Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology Europe Amateur Entomologists ' Society Deutsches Entomologisches Institut Netherlands Entomological Society Royal Belgian Entomological Society Royal Entomological Society of London Société entomologique de France Oceania Australian Entomological Society Entomological Society of Queensland Global International Entomological Society International Union for the Study of Social Insects Zoology Branches Anthropology Anthrozoology Apiology Arachnology Arthropodology Batrachology Cetology Coleopterology Conchology Entomology Ethology Helminthology Herpetology ( Ophiology ) Ichthyology Lepidopterology Malacology ( Teuthology ) Mammalogy Myrmecology Nematology Neuroethology Ornithology Paleozoology Planktology Primatology Theriology Zooarchaeology Zoosemiotics Zoologists Karl Ernst von Baer Richard C. 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Question: who is credited as the founder of entomology as a science
Answer: William Kirby