INTRODUCTION ENTOMOLOGY

                                               ⏭HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY⏭
  • Entomology - Scientific study of Insects.
  • Entomology - It is a biological science.
  • Entomology - "Greek word".
  • 80% of the flowering plants on Earth are pollinated by insects.
  • Some productive Insects - honeybees, silkworm, lac insect, cochineal insects.
  • Major branches of Entomology 
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  1.  Ethno entomology
  2. Forensic entomology
  3. Medical entomology
  4. Bio-systematics
  5. Veterinary entomology
  6. Cultural entomology

  • "First professional Entomologist" - J.C. Fabricius (student of Linnaeus). 
  • "Father of Entomology" - William Kirby (1759 - 1850, England).
  •  About "Karl von Frisch" 
             * studied communication and orientation in honeybees.
             * Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with                         Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.
               * discovered waggle dance of honeybees.

  • Madhumakshika((Sanskrit literature) - honebees
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  • "First Entomologist at the Indian museum"  - Lionel de Nicevile (1901).
  • "First Government Entomologist of Madras state" - T.B.Fletcher (1912&1919&1922).
  • 1912     -    ' The Plant Quarantine Act ' and ' Destructive Insects and Pests Act ' 
  • July 1916(Calcutta) -   Zoological Survey of India.
  • 1925 -  "Lac Research Institute" was established.
  • 1938 - "Entomology Society of India" was established.
  • 1939 - " Indian Journal of Entomology " was started.
  • 1939 - " Locust warning organization" was set up.
  • 1906 - "The Imperial Forest Research Institute" was established at "Dehradun"
  • 1905 - Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI).
  • 1921 - The Indian Central Cotton Committee. 
  • 1966 - The National Plant Protection Training Institute (NPPTI) - Hyderabad.
  • 1957 - National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (NBAIR), formerly National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects (NBAII) is located in Bangalore, Hebbal in the same premises at which The Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control (CIBC), Indian Station was established.
  • February 1988 -  National Centre for Integrated Pest Management (NCIPM).
  • 16 July 1929 - The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
  • 7 November 1988 - King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research is a medicine research institute located in Guindy, Chennai, India.
  • 1889 - Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI).
  •  About "Ronald Ross" - British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on  the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside Europe.
  • Entomology Indian Publications:

  1. "Introduction to High Altitude Entomology"  - 1962
  2. "General Entomology" - 1968 - M.S.Mani.
  3. "Entomology in India" - 1964 - N.C.Pant.
  4. "Insect Pest of crops" - 1969 - S.Pradhan.
  5. "Textbook of Agricultural Entomology " - 1969 - H.S.Pruthi.
  6. "Insects and mites of crops in India " - 1975 - M.R.G.K. Nair.
  7. "Elements of Economic Entomology " - 1975 - B.V. David and T. Kumaraswamy.
  8. "Agricultural Pest of India and South East Asia" - 1976 - A.S. Atwal.
  9. "General and Applied Entomology " - 1986 - K.K. Nayar , T.N. Anandhakrishnan and B.V. David.
                                                                        presented by
                                                               Kalaiyarasan Saravanan