Entomology--An Honored Profession

Abstract

“The struggle between man and insects began long before the dawn of civilization, has continued without cessation to the present time, and will continue, no doubt, as long as the human race endures. Of the creatures that emerged from the ooze of a nebular universe, one was the primordial ancestor of insects, another the progenitor of man. The former set out quickly on its evolutionary trail and eventually produced some 2,000,000 species of insects-several millennia before the human race settled down to stake its chances of survival in the world on the single genus and species, Homo sapiens. From the very beginning, man and insect have been destined, with rare exceptions, to be mortal enemies wherever their trails crossed in their struggle for existence.”