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Few artists have captured bugs so beautifully or realistically as John Obadiah Westwood, a prolific nineteenth-century entomologist and archaeologist with unique artistic talent. Westwood (1805-1893), born in Sheffield, England, spent his early years there and in Lichfield Staffordshire. He trained to be a lawyer but instead pursued his avocations of entomology and archaeology. He become one of the most prominent entomologists of his era. He served as a curator and professor at Oxford University and served as an entomological referee for the Gardner's Chronicle. Westwood also was a Fellow of the Linnean Society and president of the Entomological Society of London. Oxford University paid tribute to Westwood by conferring an honorary master's of arts degree on him and appointing him a Fellow of the Magdalen College. A true Renaissance man, Westwood's hobbies included reproducing Anglo-Saxon and mediaeval manuscripts, illuminations, ivories, and inscribed stones. Many of his works, such as the 1848 volume The Cabinet of Oriental Entomology, are incredibly detailed and feature richly

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NameDatesBiography
ABBOT, John 31 May or 1 June 1751 - Dec 1840 or Jan 1841

            Although known primarily as an American entomologist Abbot was born in Bennet Street, St. James, London the eldest son of James Abbot and Ann Clousinger, before moving to North America in July 1773. Many biographies (28 listed in Gilbert 1977) record the important role he played there in the establishment of entomology as a serious science.

In a manuscript autobiography in the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Abbot gives an account of his early life in England: 'my peculiar liking for Insects was long before I was acquainted with any method of keeping them my father had a Country House at Turnham Green and I remember breeding some there.  In one of my walks after insects I met with a Mr Van Dest the famous flower painter, he invited me to come & see him, he had been a small collector, showed me a pattern of the large Net, & gave me some rare insects. I got me immediately a Net made & begun to u

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Ten Entomologists Honored as 2021 Fellows of the Entomological Society of America

Annapolis, MD; August 2, 2021—The Governing Board of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) has elected 10 new Fellows of the Society for 2021. Election as a Fellow of ESA acknowledges outstanding contributions to entomology in research, teaching, extension and outreach, administration, or the military. See more details on criteria for Fellow selection, as well as a full list of ESA Fellows.

This year's honorees will be recognized during ESA's Annual Meeting, Entomology 2021, October 31 - November 3.

The entomologists named 2021 Fellows of the Entomological Society of America are:

Dr. Jeffrey Bloomquist is a professor in the Entomology and Nematology Department at the University of Florida. Throughout his career, he has specialized in insecticide toxicology with an emphasis on insecticide mode of action. 

Bloomquist was born in 1956 and raised in northwest Indiana. He obtained a B.S. degree from Purdue University (1978), an M.S. from Mississippi State University

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