Clell Lee Metcalf (25 March 1888 – 21 August 1948) was an

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who specialised in

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. He worked on treatises on the '' Syrphidae of Maine'' and, along with Wesley Pillsbury Flint (1883–1943), wrote ''Destructive and useful insects; their habits and control'', a major work on insect pests, while he taught at the University of Illinois. Metcalf was born in Lakeville Ohio, the seventh son of Abel Crawford and Catherine Fulmer Metcalf. He studied at Springfield and went to high school in Wooster, Ohio. He joined Ohio State University in 1907 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1911 and a masters in 1912. With a George Emerson scholarship he moved to Harvard University and obtained a doctorate in 1919. He studied blood-sucking flies in the Adirondack Mountains and taught entomology at the University of Illinois from 1921 to 1947. He married Cleo Esther Fouch in 1908 and his son

Robert L. Metcalf Robert Lee Metcalf (November 13, 1916 – November 11, 1998) was an American entomologist, environmental toxicologist, and insect chemical ecologist. pubmed.gov: Homage to Robert Lee Metcalf (1916-1998): entomologist, environmental toxicolog ...

became an entomologist while his brother

Zeno Payne Metcalf Zeno Payne Metcalf (1885, Lakeville, Ohio – 1956, Raleigh, North Carolina) was an American entomologist specialising in Auchenorrhyncha. Education Metcalf, born in Lakeville, Ohio, was educated at Ohio State University. He received his A.B. d ...

was a systematic entomologist. His major works in entomology were on insect control. His most famous work was ''Destructive and Useful Insects'' (1928) coauthored with W.P. Flint. Metcalf was elected in 1920 a fellow of the

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References

* Mallis, A. 1971 ''American Entomologists.Rutgers'' Univ. Press New Brunswick. *Osborn, H. 1952: ''A Brief History of Entomology Including Time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to Modern Times with over Five Hundred Portraits'' Columbus, Ohio, The Spahr & Glenn Company : 1–303.

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