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insectology|ɪnsɛkˈtɒlədʒɪ|
[a. F. insectologie (Bonnet, 1744), f. L. insect-um insect + -ology.]
A term formerly used in same sense as entomology, the science of insects as a branch of Zoology; now usually applied to the study of insects in their economic relations to man, as producers of silk, honey, cochineal, etc., and as agricultural pests or benefactors.
1766tr. Bonnet's Contemp. Nat. ix. ix, I have given the name insectology to that part of natural history which has insects for its object: that of entomology..would undoubtedly have been more suitable..but its barbarous sound terrify'd me. 1788–9Howard New R. Cycl. 1228 Insectology, other⁓wise called Entomology, or a treatise on the science of insects. 1876Times 4 Oct., At the time of its first Exhibition (1865) a division was made for general insectology and one for sericiculture, and the title was assumed of ‘Société Centrale d'Agriculture et d'Insectologie’. 1881Pop. Sci. Monthly XIX. 143 At the last exhibition of agriculture and insectology in Paris. 1891East. Daily Press 26 Aug. 6/4 Central Society of Apiculture and Insectology.
So insecˈtologer, insecˈtologist, a student of insectology.
1713Derham Phys.-Theol. viii. vi. (1727) 387 note, The Insect itself, is (according to the modern Insectologers) of the Ichneumon-Fly Kind. 1815J. Wilson Let. June in Mem. vi. (1879) 133 Mr. Laidlaw is an insectologist and poet. |