Charles Leonard Hogue (1935 - 1992) was an American

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. Hogue was Senior Curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and taught at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

. He wrote numerous popular and technical papers, mainly on

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

, as well as several general books on insects. He died in 1992. Charles Hogue was the founder of a new discipline he called ″

Cultural entomology Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including serious damage to crops and exten ...

″ concerning the influence of insects on human culture in the areas literature, language, music, the arts, interpretive history, religion, and recreation. Together with

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, Hogue was a technical adviser for the Academy Award winning documentary ''

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''.

Works

*''Insects of the Los Angeles Basin'' (1974). * ''California Insects'' written with Jerry A. Powell (1981). * ''Latin American Insects and Entomology '' (1993). * ''The Armies of the Ant'' (1972)

References

American entomologists 1935 births 1992 deaths 20th-century American zoologists {{US-entomologist-stub