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DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY
1735 Neil Avenue,
Columbus, OH 43210-1220
Phone: (614) 292-8209
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Botany and Zoology Building
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Insects and related
terrestrial arthropods comprise over 80% of
the life forms on earth. The Class Insecta alone
is suspected of containing between one and five million species
at a minimum. Biological studies on most of
these are sorely lacking, and very probably fewer than half the
extant species have been named and described.
Insects, by virtue of their small size and rapid reproductive
capability, are major competitors with humans for
resources. These same characteristics, together with ease of
handling and breeding, make them ideal organisms
for the elucidation of basic biological principles. Insects are
also extensively involved in the spread of many
pathogenic microorganisms that impact plants and animals,
including humans.
The Department of Entomology
at The Ohio State University
is the only academic and research center for
entomology in the state of Ohio, and exists as a necessary
response to the central place occupied by insects in
our society. The Department of Zoology and Entomology dates
from 1891. The first Ph.D. in Entomology was
awarded in 1904; as of Spring Commencement 1991, 356 Ph.D. and
527 M.S. degrees had been granted in
Entomology. Close cooperation between entomologists at the Ohio
Agricultural Research and Development
Center in Wooster and those on the Columbus campus began in 1947,
and the two units thereafter evolved into
a single administrative unit. The former Department of Zoology and
Entomology became two separate
departments within the College of Biological Sciences in 1967.
Formal merger of OARDC and The Ohio State
University occurred in 1982, though the Department of Entomology
has functioned as a unit since its inception.
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Created: 3 September, 1994 ||
Last modified: 02 May, 2002 L. Musetti
Norman F. Johnson: Johnson.2@osu.edu
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