It's here that The Duke of Burgundy strikes an innovative note: the film is set in a fantastical world populated only by women, all of whom are rapt attendees of drolly dull entomology lectures.
AT THE moment, the department of entomology at London's Natural History Museum is being rearranged, by bulldozer.
Both books originate in Britain, the British being the biographer-ants of literary entomology.
These are the amateur giants on whose broad shoulders much contemporary biology and entomology rests.
But the bees are not as happy as they sound, which is why Mr Wardell, who has a PhD in entomology and is a de facto bee doctor, is here.More than 80% of the world's almonds are grown in California and, to pollinate them, the 7,000 or so growers hire about 1.4m of America's 2.3m commercial hives.
In entomology alone, relevant data may be found in any one of more than 1,000 specialised journals.
Other less famous flies would then need new names.Andrew Polaszek, a researcher in the entomology department at London's Natural History Museum and a former head of the ICZN, cannot see a problem with this.
Wilson, labelled this "the Vietnam of entomology".
Concentrating first on entomology, he studied the habits of the aphid and found that the female insect was able to reproduce without fertilization by the male.
The vast collection of some 7.5 million mounted insects in the department of entomology is one of the largest in the United States.
In 1844 Bates introduced the subject of entomology to Alfred Russel Wallace, who in 1847 suggested a trip to tropical jungles to collect specimens to sell at home and to collect data that might help solve the problem of the origin of species.
