Myrmecology

Ant collection. The copies are glued to cardboard sheets. These are grouped in a display case with an insect needle.

Myrmecology is a Greek made-up word and describes "ant science", ie research into ants . It is a branch of entomology .

List of influential myrmecologists

• Murray S. Blum (* 1929)
• Barry Bolton
• Alfred Buschinger
• Cedric Collingwood
• Mark A. Deyrup
• Horace Donisthorpe (1870-1951)
• Auguste Forel (1848–1931)
• William Gould (1715–?)
• Karl Gößwald (1907–1996)
• Bert Hölldobler (* 1936)
• Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1811–1872)
• Laurent Keller (* 1961)
• Heinrich Kutter (1896–1990)
• Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913)
• Gustav L. Mayr (1830–1908)
• Derek Wragge Morley (1920-1969)
• Bernhard Seifert (* 1955)
• Frederick Smith (1805-1879)
• John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893)
• William Morton Wheeler (1865-1937)
• Edward O. Wilson (* 1929)

Web links

Wiktionary: Myrmecology  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations