Daniel William Coquillett Explained

Daniel William Coquillett (23 January 1856 – 7 July 1911) was an American entomologist who specialised in flies.^[1] He wrote a revision of the dipterous family Therevidae^[2] and many other scientific papers in which he described many new species and genera of flies. Coquillett was also the first to attempt fumigation with hydrocyanic acid as a means for controlling citrus scale insects. He experimented in the Wolfskill orange groves where he was supported by the foreman and later quarantine entomologist Alexander Craw in 1888–89.^[3]

External links

• Archive Digitised Coquillett, D. W. Report on the locusts of the San Joaquin valley, Cal. Anaheim, Calif.Date 1886
• Archive Digitised Coquillet, D. W. (Diptera) Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Galapagos expedition, 1898–1899 Volumes 14, 15, 16, 17 Washington, D.C., The Academy.
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Notes and References

1. Carpenter, M.M. 1945. Bibliography of biographies of entomologists. The American Midland Naturalist 33: 1–116.
2. Revision of the dipterous family Therevidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 2(3): 97–101 (1894)
3. Book: Report on the gas treatment for scale-insects. Coquillett, D.W.. 123. 1888. Commissioner of Agriculture, Washington.